Archive for November, 2007
comScore and Compete have published the latest video industry stats and there’s plenty of good data there:
From comScore:
More videos are consumed on Google properties (read YouTube) than any other network or property….
and more and more people are watching clips on Google (read YouTube properties):
From Compete:
The findings from comScore also include:
Other notable findings from September 2007 […]
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VC Fred Wilson not only offers some candid insights into his track record as a venture capitalist, but he ponies up the most accurate description of why venture-backed businesses fail:
Most venture backed investments fail because the venture capital is used to scale the business before the correct business plan is discovered. That scale/burn rate becomes […]
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Today Facebook announced that it had closed an additional $60M investment from Li Ka-shing. This is interesting for a few reasons.
For one, it adds one more investor joining MSFT’s $240M investment at the $15B valuation. It’s important to remember than MSFT did not invest $240M, but committed to investing $240M at $15B at […]
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From a reader: “What do you mean by Redmond outsmarting Facebook in your post and that the $15 billion valuation will come back to haunt them?
By Redmond, I mean Microsoft, of course. There are a couple of statements in my sentence, the first one being that MSFT outsmarted everyone and the second one being […]
Tags: Facebook.com, Uncategorized|
Posted By: Ashkan Karbasfrooshan | Nov 30th
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One of the best things about starting a company is that you become resilient and patient. I am one of the most impatient people I’ve ever come across (which begs the question, does one actually come across oneself? but I digress).
Last night I met some fellow entrepreneurs and I told them that when you manage […]
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“If you saw this one coming, give yourself a very large prize.”
Tech Crunch’s Duncan Riley
I can probably find it in an email, a presentation… though it was probably verbal… but since 2005 when we built the first product in the Mojo Supreme assortment of goodies, the MetaMojo.com search engine, I figured it was a matter […]
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Facebook will continue to grow well into 2008. MySpace tripled after News Corp. bought it and its growth remains impressive. But let’s face it, Facebook today is becoming a sea of crap: too many applications with little utility, too much noise and less and less value. In fact, it’s become a lot […]
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USA Today joins the latest to drink the widget koolaid:
Max Levchin, CEO of Slide, the largest widget maker, with 134 million monthly viewers across the major social networks, likens the entrepreneurial climate among widget makers to the early 1980s, when software companies such as Adobe Systems developed applications for PCs. “It’s a really exciting time […]
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I won’t make any friends in high places… but I probably won’t lose many either… so here goes:
Brightcove made more and more promises to investors to raise more money (we’re a CMS platform, a YouTube like destination and an ad network), then it scaled back its consumer destination strategy (wisely) and gave up its dream […]
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If you have experience working in ad agencies, or selling to ad agencies, and want to be part of the video content, advertising and distribution revolution, email me at ash@mojosupreme.com.
Ideally, you are based in NYC… Thanks.
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