Video interview with Andrew Warner of Mixergy about…
…AbeBooks, W Media Ventures, entrepreneurship and investing. Enjoy! (And thanks to Andrew!)
We need more angel investors in the Pacific Northwest
Since starting W Media Ventures two years ago, I had to realize that the Pacific Northwest lacks a good network of angel investors with active angels like Geoff Entress out of Seattle being the exception rather then the norm. This is certainly not because of a lack of successful tech entrepreneur in this region but […]
Wanted: Entrepreneur-in-Residence for 2010
Vancouver-based W Media Ventures is one of the premier early-stage Consumer Internet investors in the Pacific Northwest and is looking for an Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EiR) for (all or parts of) 2010. If you are an individual with an outstanding entrepreneurial spirit and mind, who is looking to create the next best thing in consumer internet, would […]
What are your predictions for consumer Internet in 2010? Here are my top 5.
It is the time of the year for predictions – here is what I think will happen in 2010 in consumer Internet: Facebook will lock down on its dominance of the social graph: Facebook Connect will become the standard for the social web with every major website implementing it. Other social networks like MySpace, Hi5, […]
Search? Social media? Implicit user behavior? Differentiating good from bad content.
Michael Arrington’s post about search optimized content creation (“The end of hand crafted content“) started an interesting discussion about the role of social media in differentiating good content from bad content (check out Fred Wilson’s “Why social beats search” and the counterargument by Chris Dixon arguing that passed links will be critical inputs to better […]