The Group Buying “Craze”?
Been listening to a lot of the chatter about the group buying bonanza that is going on these days. The latest news is a rumored large round for Groupon at a reported $1.2B valuation, close on the heels of a $25MM round announced by LivingSocial, which was shortly after Buywithme.com completed their $5.5MM round. The count [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 8 so far )Practical Tips from FirstMark Capital’s Online Marketing Summit
I did a post a few days ago around the high level themes from our Online Marketing Summit called “Stop Selling, Start Giving”. There were enough very practical tactics that emerged from the event that I thought I would share some below. SEO: The best time to think about SEO is when building a new [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 4 so far )AlwaysOn Panel: “Big Media’s Digital Strategies: Where do Private Companies Fit?”
I moderated a panel this past week at the AlwaysOn OnMedia conference in NYC. It was an opportunity to get behind what the “big media” folks are thinking in this economy, and how they interact with startups. The panelists were Jessica Schell, SVP, NBC Universal; Walker Jacobs, SVP at Turner Digital; Vivek Shah, Group President Digital, [...]
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