Category Archives: Social
The Re-Fragmentation of Social
“Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.” – Yogi Berra In 2007 I was involved with one of the first mobile social companies, Xumii. This is before the iPhone, before Android, and in the days where the only apps that mattered were games on feature phones. Xumii was solving the problem of many sources of […]
Why We Like Proformative
Proformative announced its Series A funding today. We led the round, joined by seed investor Floodgate. It fits our model, of leading the follow-on round after a super-angel seed financing. Our first deal, Assistly, was the same model: we led the follow-on round after a True Ventures seed financing. In that case, after the round was announced, other […]
Paul Martino Live Interview
A good friend of mine name John Furrier is now running a fascinating company called Silicon Angel. He is re-inventing the advertising, analyst, and content creation market. The first segment that they are disrupting is technology. Many of you might remember John from when he was the founder of PodTech. You can read more about […]
PopVox Wins South By Southwest Startup Competition
A great company that have been advising since just about its beginning just won the start-up competition at South By Southwest. Here’s a quick summary of the competition http://sxsw.com/interactive/accelerator “The third annual SXSW Accelerator presented by Microsoft BizSpark will take place March 14-16 at the 2011 SXSW Festival in Austin Texas” The winning company is called […]
New Web Services Leverage Lean Technologies
The past fifteen years have seen a building out of Internet infrastructure stack. Buried in this stack sit what we term the the lean technologies, the crown jewels behind everything we’re seeing now. These are: rapid product integration, open source, and big data, which, taken together have allowed entrepreneurs to deliver robust services offering high […]
History of Social Media
Nice chart from Skloog. We have had the good fortune to be involved with some of these companies, including MySpace, Tribe, Multiply and YouTube, and some not on the list, such as Zynga.
