Sep 25
Posted: under This week in paid content.
I was at the Digital Family Summit here in Los Angeles on Wednesday, where entrepreneur Jason Calacanis taped an edition of his "This week in startups" online video show. Check it out - he runs down the basic differences in what's going on with tech startups - basically, that companies previously got funding 1) during Dot-com 1.0 by just trying to get a big audience, before crashing & burning in the dot-bomb crash; 2) building up interesting features and exiting by selling out to Google, Yahoo, AOL, etc.; and now 3) everyone has to prove in their business plans that they are going to start generating revenue RIGHT AWAY http://thisweekinstartups.com/2009/09/twist-episode-18-with-mike-jones-and-peter-hirschberg/#more-419 Bonus: about halfway through, Jason takes my question that I submitted through Twitter; and if you don't think it's hard typing with one hand on an iPhone while juggling a camera and cocktail, well, *you* try it [...more]
This week: I attend the Digital Family Summit (pictures of which have already appeared on this blog) La Patria expands reader benefits packages, Clay Shirky hopes for a “thousand flowers” to bloom, Seth Godin indulges in some “brandjacking” and the Economist’s story on the global effects of the mobile revolution is absolutely not to be missed.
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Sep 25
Posted: under Uncategorized.
Digital Family – audience in courtyard, originally uploaded by Wordyeti. This shows the impressive turnout at the Digital Family Summit event; actually, it falls a little short, because there was also quite a crowd hidden back and to the left, by the bar (heh). The brick walls made for some … interesting … acoustics, but [...] [...more]
This shows the impressive turnout at the Digital Family Summit event; actually, it falls a little short, because there was also quite a crowd hidden back and to the left, by the bar (heh).
The brick walls made for some … interesting … acoustics, but by and large, it was a tremendous place for a meeting like this.
