Yesterday, as part of Google's 10th anniversary celebration of Blogger, they announced the integration of SocialVibe into the Blogger platform.  We are obviously excited to be working with the two largest blogging platforms (Blogger and WordPress) to help their bloggers (and readers) raise money for the charity of their choice.  SocialVibe was started to give people (i.e., bloggers, social media users) the opportunity to recieve benefit for

David McCandless is putting together some great visual charts (thanks to Peter Lee at Baroda Ventures for the tip) at his site Information is Beautiful .  One of his latest charts shows actual and/ or required spending on everything from the Iraq War to a manned mission to Mars.

Today's announcement of the 10 year partnership between Yahoo! and Microsoft has effectively ended Yahoo! grand experiment in search.  Remember early 2003 (see picture below) - back then Yahoo! had still not rolled out it's own algorithmic search and was outsourcing it's paid search to Overture. 

Earlier today I ran across a NY Times article by Frank Rich bemoaning the state of our national news in light of Walter Cronkite's death.  As Frank outlines: "The real test is how a journalist journalist responds when people in high places are doing low deeds out of

One of the topics that came up in my post Mobile Internet Apple Facebook was around open vs. closed platforms. This issue comes up at the start of almost every new startup company in a variety of forms. I’m constantly struggling with trying to figure out the best way to pull together solutions, especially with how fast things move.

A post by Fred Wilson pointed me to Dave McClure's Startup Metrics presentation. This is a great presentation and one that I'm going to point out to startup / early stage company CEOs. Normally, when I am talking to the founder of any startup trying to figure out what they need to do, one of the things I always try to do is understand their business at its core. In many cases, I can break it down into: Customer Acquisition Cost – how will you reach prospects, how will you convert them and how

I generally am working as an acting CTO for about 3-4 start-ups or other companies at any one time. I was just talking with someone who asked me to define how that could work and what they meant. Great question. I also found this interesting graphic of the changing needs around the CTO role in different

For some reason over the past week, I've been asked by three different people I know about job opportunities that might fit them. Since, I've given them the same advice, I thought it was worth putting in my blog. I personally believe that the best way to hire, find partners, and find a job is through a network.

I just had an all-too common conversation with the founder of a startup who had spent more than a year working with a software development company who had produced a mess. The mess really comes from a developer who was willing to get started on a product that was not fully thought out. I always take a very different approach in early conversations. If I’m being asked to do startup software development, I’m going