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My first post about portfolio company Visible World and the future of television advertising was in October 2004 (see here).  In the post, I wrote about how television advertising needed to chan...

https://www.beyondvc.com/2009/08/future-of-television-advertising-continued-again.html

I have written a few post about the future of television advertising (10/2004, 11/2006, and 12/2006).  Yes the web has taken over and yes video on the web is advancing rapidly but that does not ...

https://www.beyondvc.com/2009/03/targeted-television-advertising-is-finally-here.html

It is great to see my friend Andrew Erlichson getting some rave reviews for Phanfare Photon, his iPhone photo app.  According to ReadWriteWeb: "Phanfare's Photon is currently the best photo shar...

https://www.beyondvc.com/2009/02/best-iphone-photo-app-phanfare-photon.html

My brother-in-law, composer and recent Emmy winner, Ben Decter, is kicking it this week in Sundance while two of his movies Heart of Stone and We Live in Public make the rounds. This summer he an...

https://www.beyondvc.com/2009/01/sundance-and-a-movie-about-a-web-pioneer-you-may-have-never-heard-of.html

Every day it seems we are reading about the power of social networking to transform the Internet and how we communicate online and also consume and discover new content.  While that is true and ...

https://www.beyondvc.com/2008/05/old-school-cont.html

I have recently met a number of startups with interesting consumer applications or services.  As expected, many of these startups have a vision to rely on advertising to pay the bills.  And lik...

https://www.beyondvc.com/2008/03/direct-ad-sales.html

First of all, Google announced some amazing numbers growing its revenue over 50% and its earnings around 17%.  That being said, investors in Google have high expectations and the stock fell in a...

https://www.beyondvc.com/2008/02/social-networki.html

as i have said before the big keep getting bigger and the low barriers to entry mean more and more small guys are fighting for crumbs. the only way to sustain is if dollars continue to flow from ...

https://www.beyondvc.com/2007/10/are-there-enoug.html

NBC just announced that it is going to offer free TV show downloads online allowing viewers to take more control of their content.  I agree with Fred ,however, that while this is a smart move th...

https://www.beyondvc.com/2007/09/video-advertisi.html

Congratulations to Fotolog for their pending sale to French company Hi-Media for $90mm. This is a great event for the company as John Borthwick, current CEO, helped stabilize the infrastructure a...

https://www.beyondvc.com/2007/08/congrats-to-fot.html

Wow-what a past couple of days!  First I would like to say congratulations to David Moore, CEO of 24/7 RealMedia, on the company’s pending sale to WPP Group for $649mm.  I first met David in ...

https://www.beyondvc.com/2007/05/internet_ad_fre.html

The kids space is hot.  Techcrunch just reported on rumors that Montgomery and Co or Monty was working with Club Penguin on a sale to Sony for $500 million.  Montgomery is the same investment b...

https://www.beyondvc.com/2007/05/second_life_for.html

There is an interesting interview in the WSJ today with Dave Rosenblatt, CEO of Doubleclick.  While talking about industry trends, Dave clearly lays out the fact that it is still early days in t...

https://www.beyondvc.com/2007/05/broadband_video.html

In my last post on television advertising, I mentioned that while video advertising on the web will grow rapidly over the next few years, the $60 billion currently spent on television advertising...

https://www.beyondvc.com/2006/12/the_future_of_t.html

Thank you EMI for releasing music singles without any DRM protection on it.  While I continue my love/hate relationship with the IPod, I do believe that my music needs to be portable and free. I...

https://www.beyondvc.com/2006/12/set_my_music_fr.html

A little over 2 years ago, I wrote a post about the future of television advertising.  While I have always been bullish about broadband video advertising, I have never believed that the $60b tel...

https://www.beyondvc.com/2006/11/the_future_of_t-2.html

As I wrote early last year, my perspective is that one must go early, go late, or go home to make money in the venture market.  Given that we at Dawntreader have always been early, that is where...

https://www.beyondvc.com/2006/11/cbs_going_early.html

By now, everyone knows about the Google – YouTube deal, $1.65 billion for a leading online destination video site.   There is not much I can add, but I did find this comment interesting from ...

https://www.beyondvc.com/2006/10/google_and_yout.html

I decided to go for a nice run today in the 30 degree weather to get a little mental relaxation.  I was debating whether or not to bring my ipod mini and checked to see the battery life which sh...

https://www.beyondvc.com/2005/11/ipod_battery_su.html

Just the other day, I took a redeye back from Israel and bumped into a couple of Israeli VCs and entrepreneurs making their annual journey to CES.  I have to admit that I am a bit jealous but si...

https://www.beyondvc.com/2005/01/ces.html

During the Internet boom, all eyes were on the United States as we were the first to leverage this new medium and create some amazing companies and uses of the Internet from ecommerce to search t...

https://www.beyondvc.com/2004/09/our_broadband_f.html

Jeff Jarvis has an updated post on a “place for my stuff” furthering the “stuff as a service” paradigm. On my thought about having a personal server in the home, Jeff goes on to say: I st...

https://www.beyondvc.com/2004/06/a_personal_serv.html

Jeff Jarvis writes about having a place for all of his digital stuff. He goes on to say: : I want a place on the Internet where I can store all my stuff so I can get to it from anywhere on any de...

https://www.beyondvc.com/2004/06/personal_server.html

There has been lots of buzz at CES this past week. Trust me, I am a huge fan of all of the new consumer gadgets that are coming out in the market this year. I still, however, ask the question, �...

https://www.beyondvc.com/2004/01/cesshow_me_the_.html