Yesterday, I moderated a panel at AlwaysOn’s Venture Summit East in Boston, called “Is There Still Upside in the Internet?”
Short answer: Always and forever, as long as there are venture capitalists with bags of other people’s money and enough rat holes to shove the cash down!
In all seriousness, it was a great discussion, centering on [...]
Was it just me or did you also get a bit of déjà vu upon reading a story today by the New York Times’s Laura M. Holson about yet another mash-up of a Hollywood talent agencies with Silicon Valley VCs.
That’s apparently what is happening with a new investment venture that includes the William Morris [...]
So I went to the getting-to-know-you lunch thrown by Europe-based Index Ventures, the venture firm that has made some splashes in Silicon Valley, with its success investing in Web phone pioneer Skype and its flashy new investment in online video service Joost.
The group, which includes former Silicon Valley player Danny Rimer, whom I interviewed [...]
In what I can only describe as a sentimental-veering-toward-weepy riff on the ongoing saga of “Silicon Valley Bubble: The Sequel,” TechCrunch blogger Michael Arrington waxes on about the need for a downturn to stop the madness.
“Times are good, money is flowing, and Silicon Valley sucks,” he writes in earnest about how all that was once [...]
Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997 and also wrote the BoomTown column about the sector. With Walt Mossberg, she co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech and media conference.
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