venture capital
Media’s no good, very bad week Paid Members Public
More proof that VC funding and journalism are poor bedfellows — and that you should never trust a social media platform.
The end of Future Paid Members Public
Andreessen Horowitz’s short-lived foray into tech journalism is over. When even VCs don’t see a future in tech hype media, what does that mean for the rest of us?
LeWeb: Fred Wilson on the wearable problem and the healthcare opportunity Paid Members Public
After meditation and a photography discussion, LeWeb proper kicks off with breakfast with a VC: Fred Wilson [http://avc.com] It’s not obvious at the time what the right investments. They’ve made investments in identity, mesh networks, healthcare and bitcoin this year – which is what they planned to
The long, slow Ello Paid Members Public
So, Ello [https://ello.co], then. I’m on there [https://ello.co/adders]. Lots of people are on there (even if they’re not really using it yet [http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/29/no-people-are-not-leaving-facebook-in-droves-for-ello/] ). But I’m very far from convinced just yet. Being wary of Facebook’s
31-3.8 - Journalism will survive - but you might not recognise it Paid Members Public
The future of journalistic publication might not look very much like its past…
It's Change Or Die Time For Media Companies Paid Members Public
When publishers first went online, and when new online publishers set up, they basically recreated magazines and newspapers online – they didn’t create anything that was fundementally tailored to the new medium. In fact, it’s much like the early days of the printing press, when many of the first
Bubbleicious Paid Members Public
[Via [Roam4Free](http://blog.roam4free.ie/off-the-richter-scale/)]
Le Web 3: Is there a Web 2.0 bubble? Paid Members Public
Here comes the VCs… Is there a web bubble? It seems not, but there are some issues to be resolved. For example, is the available talent split amongst too many small start-ups? Would some mergers pull more talent together? The lack of a market bubble may be attributable to Sarbanes-Oxley,
