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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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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How similar is my job to the TV show Shark Tank? Not similar at all. Like most reality TV shows, Shark Tank is designed to maximize entertainment, not educate viewers.
 
Your first clue is that none of the ‘sharks’ on the show are venture capitalists. Instead, these are successful business (wo)men who are deploying their personal […]

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Fellow Northwestern alum Ben Parr asked if News Corp should be charging for online news content on Mashable. The answer is a very obvious yes.
Rupert didn’t start in the “charge for news” camp, but was persuaded after he bought the Wall Street Journal. The folks at the WSJ have stubbornly refused to give away their […]

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