Archive for April, 2008
I was reading SI on the NFL Draft and how random it is: which players become successful vs. which ones flop.
Business is the same, here is a good post on Tech Crunch about Amazon and Jeff Bezos. Mind you, it helps to have a maniacal leader in Jeff Bezos who will win at all costs.
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Bob Parsons is the CEO of GoDaddy.com. Came across this off his blog:
1. Get and stay out of your comfort zone.
I believe that not much happens of any significance when we’re in our comfort zone. I hear people say, “But I’m concerned about security.” My response to that is simple: “Security is for cadavers.”
2. Never […]
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I don’t understand why Warner Bros. is looking to develop its own destination. Forget the fact that there are other destinations doing that pretty well already… why doesn’t WB use Time Warner’s online assets, like SI, Time, and… AOL, or Bebo!
TWX is one odd company: last night I mentioned how AOL and CNN don’t seem […]
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I never understood why some companies like Handheld Entertainment and Go Fish were publicly traded. With easier access to capital comes the fact that your premature business gets nailed by shareholders, especially if your underlying premise - that distribution trumps content - is faulty.
[Disclaimer: both companies were or are distribution partners of WatchMojo.com]
GoFish is […]
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Twitter apparently raises $20M, proving that indeed, greed is a stronger force than fear. Going into the week, rumor had it the company was looking to do a $60M pre-money valuation… others said it might go as high as $150M… since we’re playing with monopoly money, let’s just cut down the middle and suppose […]
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I am watching a video on CNN… yet I can’t embed it anywhere. Why not? Given that CNN is part of Time Warner, and Time Warner has spend billions on AOL, Quigo, Advertising.com, LightningCast, etc., I cannot understand why Time Warner would not open up their massive content archive and let their extensive ad platforms […]
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So this weekend a lot of otherwise smart people are asking: “is MSFT going to walk away from YHOO” presumably because Jerry Yang does not want to lose control of YHOO to the point of torpedoing everything in sight. Nice. Score on for fiduciary duty.
Are you people for real. Or just crazy?
Let’s look at some […]
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You know what would be really cool? A service that allows users to name so-called anonymous sources to determine what is valid and what is hogwash.
Between Tech Crunch, Alley Insider and All Things D, I think we have enough anonymous sources for a beta version.
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Yesterday Henry Blodget reported that Twitter is looking to raise a Series C financing round of up to $15M on a $60M pre-money. If investors bite, that would give the short-form publishing platform a $75M post money valuation and effectively dilute the company by 20%.
Previous, Twitter had raised $5M on a $20M valuation, whereby […]
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You know what I find really, really, really frustrating?
When VCs pitch to you, they talk a lot about how much they provide more than money… it’s sometimes true, oftentimes it’s not. But what is really damning is when I am trying to contact a given company for a business development deal and contact a […]
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