Building a company on top of an existing platform – yes, no, maybe?
There has been a lot of chatter about platforms as of late and their moves have mostly been to the detriment of platform developers (Facebook forcing Zynga to use their credit system; Twitter banning third-party apps from inserting in-stream ads or Apple changing their developer agreement to ban use of third-party analytics and services). As […]
Display advertising will get more complex before it will get simpler
There has been a lot of development in the display advertising markets in the past 18-24 months and there is no better place than New York City to dive into this vertical. Terence Kawaja did an excellent job at his IAB keynote address a few weeks ago to show how complex the display advertising technology […]
Google getting into the people search business in a bigger way?
People search must account for a significant portion of Google search traffic and it is interesting to see that they are now trying to grab a larger market but asking people to store essential information in a Google profile. If this takes off, this would not be great news to Facebook, LinkedIn and specialized people […]
Looking for the Mark MacLeod (aka StartupCFO) of Vancouver
I have been very impressed with what Mark MacLeod has done for numerous Montreal and Toronto startups as their part-time CFO. A former CFO for numerous startups himself, he started StartupCFO Enterprises a few years ago in order provide financial and strategic guidance as well as back office admin services (so everything from help in […]
Why New York will challenge the Valley for Consumer Internet supremacy
I am spending the month of May working with Albert Wenger out of the Union Square Ventures offices and had the chance to dive deep into the New York Consumer Internet scene in the past few weeks. What I am seeing leads me to believe that this city is developing into a serious challenger of […]