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I rarely use this blog to talk about my work in the online advertising world. Here’s a short post which goes into a bit of detail regarding what I’m learning about the industry, what makes eMediaRep and NPB such great organizations, and how I think Blip.tv is “getting it”
UPDATE: It appears that Blip pulled their [...]

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I was checking out the SAI reporting on Charlie’s round of financing (congrats!!!)($2 - 3 million pre-money valuation, whoa!), and saw this sight (below and on Alley Insider itself). I hope this is the progression of SAI’s ads. They started with Vintage Filings, making me wonder “WTF?! Am I the target audience for this site [...]

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Charlie O’Donnell and Alex Lines, cofounders of Path101, are baring it all… and lucky for us, it’s their startup plan I’m speaking about.
In what they call anti-stealth mode, Charlie and Alex make the argument that the net benefit of baring it all (marketing, investor and employee prospecting, community feedback) outweigh all the possible negatives (tipping [...]

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I’ve oft publicly compared my friends at Alley Insider to PaidContent, but privately I recently argued to PC Editor Rafat Ali that they’re really not competition.
Now, as SAI seems to be lock-step with PC in terms of traffic, we’ll get to find out if there really is some competition.
Over the next few months, watch this [...]

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I’m at Startup Camp NYC today and tomorrow and looking forward to hearing about startups, learning about startups, and talking about my startup. Plus, I’m considering entering the Best Startup Contest.
We all know what a “startup” is, right?
Well, gearing up for the event, I subscribed to the startup camp’s wiki RSS feed to stay up [...]

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I really liked this part of Charlie’s testimony to the New York City Council:
My final bit of support for what ITAC has recommended has to do with real physical infrastructure. Over the years, those involved in technology innovation in small companies and startups have always made due with whatever physical places we could find [...]

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As Darren Herman first reported, a few weeks ago I went to the AWS promo event in NYC. While I already knew most everything about AWS, I enjoyed the mix of people there, and to top it off, Sim Simeonov, of Polaris Ventures, gave a fantastic presentation called “Beyond Bootstrapping.”
Here it is, and embedded below:

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I love Scott’s posts because they’re nearly always small enough to “clip” in their entirety.Theses are good lessons. Notes taken.

clipped from scott.heiferman.com

Secrets to Fotolog’s Scaling Success:
* The site is intentionally simple.
* Popularity is driven by a base of active users, not a rich set of cool features.
* Constraints in web sites can, like [...]

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I’ve just received this note (below) from my friend Yao-Hui Huang of GigaPixel Creative and The Hatchery. I like this form of networking because it’s about active match-making. Networking can feel really cheesy sometimes, but as anyone can tell who has used LinkedIn for all it’s worth, connecting with people who work in complementary fields [...]

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Who knew?
Scanning through my Sunday RSS feeds, I came across this article published in PaidContnent.
In it, the PC founder and editor Rafat Ali revealed something this long-time reader never knew:
Doug Anmuth, the Lehman Brothers analyst, makes a case for online episodic video in his weekly “Internet Inside” thinkpiece, and yes, he’s an optimist on this [...]

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