What an interesting period in the business media world?
Rafat Ali - the pioneer of the business blog - decided to step down two years after selling his influential and trail blazing PaidContent.org blog to The Guardian. While Ali did eventually raise some financing from Alan Patricof’s Greycroft fund, he captured the spirit of the bootstrapped startup that went on to stratospheric heights. Ali will take some time off before making a decision on the next step. I interviewed him last year, at one point we talked about the deal with The Guardian: continue reading...
It’s official: Tech Crunch is launching TC TV.
Arguing that: continue reading...
This is the third installment of a series of posts I am writing on Tech Crunch, looking at video content. continue reading...
Pretty amazing to see Michael Arrington evolve over the years. This past week he penned a post that basically took down a few questionable people and practices. Today we see this gem of a video:
Crazy to see what VCs back. No comment. continue reading...
If Michael Arrington and his gang of crazies managed to actually build this darn thing, then yes, this puts Tech Crunch into a whole other sphere of accomplishments.
To put this into context, back in 2008, they put out the call. continue reading...
The Grinch Who Stole Q1
Tech Crunch has been making the rounds and the projections for Q1 2009 online advertising are bleak: continue reading...
Last week I asked if Web 2.0 was becoming a farce and today there’s a mighty strong argument to suggest that yes, indeed it is.
Bay Partners, a VC with too much money on their hands apparently, must have just gotten poked on Facebook, got excited and is now launching a “facebook-apps-only-fund”. I can barely contain myself from laughing. continue reading...
