OpenRTB and Architectural Innovation

I sent out a good number of emails on Sunday asking for opinions on OpenRTB.  People were mainly dismissive, partly because of the secretive way in which it was concocted, partly because some think Google is better accomodated than challenged, but mainly because the current goals of the spec are slight.  After reading the spec, I […]

Old Style vs. New Style VC

Wrote a comment over on David Lerner’s blog on his “Are Super-Angels Extinct” post. He said What I am saying is that some of these superangel funds may structurally resemble traditional VC funds, but they are something altogether different- and more akin to an angel group. My comment was that structure matters.  If you set […]

Coinvestor Graph Code

I’ve had a bunch of people asking for the data behind the coinvestor network map and a few asking for the code.  It’s actually pretty easy to generate the basic graph from the Crunchbase API.  The hard part was cleaning the Crunchbase data, augmenting it with some other data sources and then making sense of […]

Co-evolution and other housekeeping

A couple of weeks ago I wrote something for AdExchanger’s ‘Predictions for 2011‘ series. It needed to be brief, and I wanted to talk about what entrepreneurs will be beta testing two years from now.  I made a couple of observations that are pretty obviously true and then ventured this prediction: Towards the end of […]

More VC Coinvestment Visualizations

I’ve always believed that unless you try your hand at something, you can’t really appreciate the people who do it well.  That was my motivation in creating the VC Coinvestment Network Map I posted two weeks ago.  And believe me, after munging that together I did appreciate the complexity of the process and the expertise […]