Another Texas VC

How many social networks are you a member of? Last summer I was a member of around 20. With so many profiles, I couldn’t keep track and decided to pare them down. I dropped more than half, kissing friendster (I was one of the first users), myspace, doostang, ning, meetup, and a few others goodbye. [...]

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My quick advice to entrepreneurs trying to make money off of banner advertising is to stop. I recently got an analyst report that puts the average remnant CPM at around 35 cents. To put that into practical terms, your average web-page with an ad-sense banner page only earns $100 for every 286,000 impressions. Boy that’s [...]

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The iPhone is an incredibly impressive device. Much how the Blackberry put email access into your pocket, the iPhone has provided the first usable mobile browsing experience. As the first mover in the space, Apple exercises a near monopoly in the space with an impressive 40% market share in mobile internet traffic. Kudos to everyone [...]

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I watch a few tv series pretty regularly, but to a show I have no idea what time they are scheduled to be on. With the exception of Longhorn Football, all of the stuff I watch is pre-recorded by my DVR. I am not alone, with a third of Americans now using DVRs. So when [...]

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My office in Houston is a microcosm of the world at large. 2 of the 4 VCs in our office have converted from PC to Mac. I begrudgingly used Windows Vista because it came on my Kellogg laptop, while the other PC user had Vista on his tower while stalling to buy a new laptop. [...]

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