Thoughts on Corporate Venture Capital

Was it almost a year ago that I wrote about Google getting into corporate VC? Well, here they come. Reaction among the blogs I follow has been negative. Fred Wilson has the most cogent take, as usual. I worked in corporate venture capital for years. I was skeptical when I was interviewing for the job […]

On Eating Your Own Cooking

Valleywag has an post implying ad agencies don’t practice what they preach: that they don’t spend on search ads for themselves like they do for their clients. I have no doubt this is true. I just searched for “advertising agency” on Google. The paid results are almost all very small agencies. Ad agencies spend very […]