PostRank Top Blogs of 2009

Thursday, January 14th, 2010 Posted in Portfolio Company, Research | 2 Comments »

PostRank published the Top Blogs of 2009 today and along with a very detailed list of the top blogs, there are some interesting stats from the gobs of data they ... Read more..

The nature of engagement

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009 Posted in Portfolio Company | 1 Comment »

One of the joys of writing for the Tech Capital blog is the intense and relentless rivalry [sarcasm] among the various authors of this blog. I undoubtedly blame PostRank for ... Read more..

Advertising, Where did you go?

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 Posted in Research | No Comments »

This morning I read about the decision by Condé Nast to shutdown Portfolio magazine. It led me to the Mediaweek Magazine Monitor Master List, which then got me thinking about ... Read more..

Word Clouds: What are they good for?

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009 Posted in Research | No Comments »

Word clouds are a great way to quickly visualize word density in large amounts of text. We've all seen word clouds before but not many people create them for their ... Read more..

Common Pitfalls of Market Sizing

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008 Posted in Venture Capital | No Comments »

Rick Segal published a post last week titled The Great Myth of Market Size. The topic of market size has been on my to do list for a while so ... Read more..

Startup Metrics at Web 2.0 Expo

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 Posted in Best Practices, Conferences | No Comments »

I really enjoyed Dave McClure and Hiten Shah's Startup Metrics presentation at this year's Web 2.0 Expo a few weeks ago. What really struck a cord with me was Dave's ... Read more..