Business
You've probably never heard of Matt Mireles and Bjorn Liljequist but with a $4000 dollar budget and an engineering team paid in iPhones, the two already have Meebo founder Seth Sternberg as their advisor and praise from VC Fred Wilson. The duo's filtering...
Business
When customers are faced with a challenge — a gap in their knowledge, a website that’s not intuitive to navigate, a set up process that’s too complex to get through, etc. — they quickly resort to the state of a baby bird. Suddenly, they’ve been made to feel...
Business
"The new device is an improvement over the old device, making it more attractive for purchase by all Americans," said Thomas Wakefield, a spokesperson for the large conglomerate that manufactures the new device. "The old device is no longer sufficient....
Business
It is the same "VC math" which drives a VC to seek to deploy a larger amount of capital into a company. (Often taking a capital efficient company and helping it become capital inefficient). And it is the same math which sometimes creates a lack...
Business
My homeboy Chris Dixon wrote a thoughtful post entitled: "Are people more willing to pay for digital goods on mobile devices?" The heart of his argument: I think we are in the AOL “walled garden” days of the mobile internet. Demand is far outpacing...
