Managed Video Goes Mainstream

Last week, I had the pleasure of attending and speaking at the inaugural Managed Video as a Service Summit, hosted by Envysion at the St. Julien Hotel in Boulder (for those of you not familiar with the concept of managed video as as service, you can read my explanation here).   There was great turn-out for the event, [...]

The Need For Intellectual Honesty

Most venture capitalists will tell you that when they invest, they are investing as much in a management team as a business plan.  Nowhere is this more true than in the world of early stage investing, where management must possess both a commitment to vision and an ability to adapt to constantly changing circumstances.
When we make an early stage investment, we [...]

The Shifting World of Advertising

If you have watched any TV at all in the last couple of weeks, then you have probably seen the new ad campaign by DISH Network.  It is a clever campaign that features two astronauts floating in outer space while they flip the “Free H.D.” switch on the DISH satellite (see video below).  The campaign has been [...]

News from the portfolio

A couple noteworthy happenings in the portfolio:

Victors & Spoils celebrated their six month anniversary (I know, it sounds a little bit like a high school romance, but start ups age in dog years, so six months matters). In this blog post you can read about what they have already accomplished, which includes developing a creative team of over [...]

What’s in your Anti-Portfolio?

One inevitable aspect of being in the venture capital business is living with the ones that got away.  Every vc out there has passed on at least one deal that has gone on to become a big winner.  If they tell you differently, then they are either new to the profession, or in serious denial. 
We all deal [...]

News From The Portfolio

A couple newsworthy tidbits from the portfolio this week:

Lijit joined some pretty elite company by exceeding the half billion page view threshold (you can read about it here).  There was also a nice interview with Lijit COO Walter Knapp in AdExchanger.com (here).

Victors & Spoils is looking for talent.  They have a full time account director position open [...]

The Power of Video

Rarely is a new technology so disruptive that it, in and of itself, creates a new industry.  More often than not, it is the application of a new technology to an existing industry that creates the biggest waves (think wireless internet access as applied to cell phones).  
This is definitely the case with Envysion, a [...]

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