All of us at GigaOM and our sister site paidContent are into the final planning stages for our big media show next week — paidContent 2012: At The Crossroads. As paidContent editor and conference chair Staci Kramer has described in her posts leadi...
Venture capitalists have been getting a black eye to go with their blue shirts. A recent report from the Kauffman Foundation slammed VCs for “shortchanging” investors, pointing out that public markets deliver better returns. The next day, Fred Wil...
Whether or not blog comments are valuable has been debated for a long time in the blogosphere, but recently it seems more people are standing even firmer on their chosen side of the debate. In an article by GigaOm, blogger Mathew Ingram brought up...
A darling of the New York startup scene starts to get serious about building a business out of its 20 million users.
1) Expect the angel and seed stage market to continue to stay hot. Newly wealthy Facebookers will likely contribute massively to early stage companies, which means building relationships with companies early and actually rolling up sleeves to add ...
Michael Galpert wrote a post on hiring for startups, which he summarized cleanly in one sentence: “Everyone is hiring and nobody wants a job.” In the internet startup world, that says it all. The problem is exacerbated in the startup world because...
I was at Internet Week events at the #IWNY headquarters Wednesday and Thursday; the yearly event was quite packed and there were several good sessions. I was there mostly for networking and to listen for ideas from which to build my own ideas on t...
I’m very pleased to introduce a new member of our editorial team, Ki Mae Heussner. Ki Mae will be writing about New York startups, with a particular focus on e-commerce and advertising technology. With the former, she’ll be covering innovations li...
Continuing my series on innovation in the government "industry,"
Will Facebook's business model be more like Google, the New York Times, or TV? To be worth $100+ billion, it will have to be something much more. Is Facebook's IPO the next chapter in the greatest company of our time, or are Friday's buyers total ...
How do you price a round? Its one of the most often asked questions and yet I've never seen a great answer given. It seems to me that the most important factor in pricing your round isn't your progress or your idea. It seems to come down to two th...
When I arrived at Heathrow I bought a data only SIM in the vending machine in baggage claim. My friend Simon suggested I set up a new Skype account and get a UK SkypeIn number. I did that and I have been operating without a voice connection. I use...
