Stay focused: work on the business, not in it
This week just flew by and it felt like an endless series of emails, meetings, calls and travel without me having spent a minute working on some of the larger and more strategic topics that I have defined for myself and W Media Ventures. Getting drowned by day-to-day stuff is a trap that one can […]
Best practices for board meetings
Chris Fralic‘s tweet about a board meeting best practice this morning got me thinking that this was something I wanted to write about for some time. I currently sit on 12 boards and have therefore seen my fair share of board meetings – most of them were really productive, some of them highly unproductive. Here […]
Techvibes TV interview at GROW
Techvibes did a range of interviews at the GROW conference, among others with Andrew Mason (Groupon), Zynga‘s Robert Mason and Suite101‘s Peter Berger. I got the chance to get interviewed as well and chatted with Michelle Sklar a bit about W Media Ventures but more importantly about the Vancouver tech community and the C100. Enjoy! […]
New investment: Summify, a social news reader
August seems to be “funding announcement month” so after Empire Avenue and Barcode Hero, here comes a 3rd new investment: Summify is a social news reader that addresses the information overflow we all are experiencing with the explosion of social media. What that exactly means is best described by the Summify team on their blog: […]
My investment thesis
Fred Wilson’s blog post on Dave McClure’s investment thesis a few weeks ago reminded me that I needed to do a better job on spelling out my own. I had done some preliminary work when I started W Media Ventures almost 3 years ago but it was very high-level only addressing the sector (consumer Internet), […]