The past week, this blog has kind of been bush league in terms of content quantity. Why you ask? Well a couple weeks back I decided to reduce the amount of hours I was spending consulting at Watercooler Sports in order to take another consulting job at GroundWork Open Source. My weeks are split between […]

There is a war going on in Bristol and the good guys are beginning to win. Somewhere within the headquarters of ESPN there is group of honchos who hate blogs. They have probably been with ESPN for over a decade and are utterly dismissive of the up and coming media channel that is nibbling on […]

Awhile back I concoted a theory that given the  signs/clues that TechCrunch was growing beyond any organic means, it was beyond likely that they were raising or had raised some venture capital. This turned out being one of my most viewed blogs of all time, receiving a lot of of comments, linkbacks, believers, and critics. […]

I am a huge fan of Tesla Motors and at one time was in talks to join their efforts to make kick ass electric cars (not actually make them, but sell/market them). Unfortunately though the economy has not been too kind to Tesla who is now awaiting word on loan from the Department of Energy […]

As a blogger one of the things that really can bug me is when media companies hide their content on their websites where nobody goes. I mean how often do people go to a comedycentral.com , abc.com , etc ? Its even worse when that content is not able to be embedded on sites like […]

For all the hype about web 2.0, there has yet to be much financial success as these the first couple of waves of web 2.0 startups have yet to find a proper exit via IPO or acquisition. Today two of the more prominent and popular web 2.0 start ups made some waves. First is a […]

Below is the back story of how this ridiculous video came to be. Its 100% true. NOTE: I am the original creator of the video below. I am not gay, just a big dork. CEO of Twitter, Evan Williams, grew sick and tired of the Twitter community’s obsession with Steve Wozniak on Dancing with the […]

In the past week, I have wrote two blogs about the new fad in technology and venture capital world of regional startup incubator seed programs. Initially I wrote about the influx of programs, only to find Capital Factory to join the party a week later out of Austin. Fast forward a couple of days and […]

Yesterday I blogged about how the new rage seems to be startup seed programs. Not even a day later, another program was announced. This time around the lucky city was Austin (which I haven’t been to, but put on a pedestal). Below are some details from TC. “As with other similar programs, Capital Factory offers […]

VC’s are not doing too hot right now. Portfolio companies are largely struggling in this economy, the IPO and M&A markets are bleak right now, raising capital for new funds has been a struggle for most, capital calls have been flakey, and flat out a lot of VC’s are looking at prior investments and valuations […]

About a month ago, I wrote a pretty heavy harsh piece on Fox’s failed foray into covering college football. The meat of this blog post was centered around, Fox owned Scout.com’s $5 million lawsuit settlement offer to former publishers. It still baffles me that no major publication wants to run with this story as Scout’s […]

Twitter just got a huge round of funding, has celebrities in the hundreds using it (Rich Rodriguez, Pete Carrol, and Charlie Villanueva tweeting during halftime no less) , and has a user base growing at nearly 25% month over month. It’s become politicians new best friend and has made headlines in every way imaginable over […]

Yeah I know, Facebook is not even public yet. Yet somehow it seems as if its staying power and momentum could jolt them into the realm of a Google or Apple. Monetizing social networking is not easy, but with the amount of users Facebook has, the Fortune 500 is not too far fetched at all. […]

This is part 3 in my 3 part series titled “Here are some Blogs about online advertising I am writing before the Ohio State game that they better freaking win”. Of late, many online advertising thought leaders have lamented that display advertising is dying or in major need of a shakeup. In a nutshell, the […]

This is part 2 in my 3 part series titled “Here are some Blogs about online advertising I am writing before the Ohio State game that they better freaking win”. Its hard to define conversational marketing or viral marketing in layman’s terms. If I had to try I would say it would be injecting and […]