B-L-O-G Your Way to Transparency with DisclosurePolicy.org
One of my portfolio companies, PayPerPost, launched DisclosurePolicy.org today and I just posted the following at blog.DisclosurePolicy.org. The topic of transparency is much larger than PayPerPost,...
View ArticleHappy Birthday FVB!
Well loyal readers (even that guy who found FVB just because he googled for “horse porn“), it’s been a great year. My goal for the past year was to blog at least once a week on a variety of Florida,...
View ArticlePayPerPost Gets Some Love, and Gives Some
Arrington had some nice things to say about one of my portfolio companies today. So did Scoble. Interesting that neither one touched the topic of undisclosed affiliate marketing bloggers — a...
View ArticleSuper Duper Blog Tag: Five Things About Me
Owen over at Ugh!!’s Greymatter Honeypot just tagged me on the “Blog Tag: 5 Things About Me” meme. Here are 5 things you may may not already know about me:1) I’m an avid University of Florida sports...
View ArticleSelections Announced for 2007 Florida Venture Capital Conference
Congrats to all of the entrepreneurs selected to present at this year’s Florida Venture Capital Conference. The announcement press release is here (list with descriptions included below). Given how...
View ArticleUpcoming Venture & Social Media Events
Starting with today, the next two weeks for me will be a whirlwind of good venture capital and social media events — some small, some large, some near, some far. If you haven’t considered them, do so....
View ArticleFlorida Venture Capital Conference Recap and Best of Show
It’s been a couple weeks since my last post and I feel really bad about it. I’m hoping to make it up to you by awarding a couple “Best of Show” KangaRuas in today’s post. 2007 Florida Venture Capital...
View ArticleMarket Your Blog — On PPP’s Dime
My FVCC recap post mentioned some portfolio work that kept me from a yacht wine tasting and gambling. Some called me crazy, but the tradeoff was well worth it… PayPerPost launched a monster release...
View ArticleContest: Be the VC
I ran a small contest over a couple days last week via PayPerPost. Basically, I shared that there are more interesting ideas on the net than any one guy can keep track of. I challenged Posties to “Be...
View ArticleNot-So-Stupid Blog Tricks
Bijan over at BijanBlog got a business presentation by blog — pretty cool! Commenters echoed the idea that blogs can be used for many purposes — not just your typical one-to-many blog fodder. One of...
View ArticleThe Police
This isn’t one of those inside-music VC posts that lists 3 new bands you’ve never heard of playing Greenwich Village this weekend. Although I love those posts, this post is about a band most VCs...
View ArticlePPP Direct Makes it a TechCrunch Baker’s Dozen
In honor of TC’s lucky 13th post about PayPerPost, most with some Mike Arrington swipe at PPP or Ted Murphy, I’ve created the “Be Like Mike” game below. Although TechCrunch and PPP compete for the same...
View ArticleThe PayPerPost Revolution Accelerates (yes, again)
This was a good week for PayPerPost, probably the biggest since we led their A round last October. Some of the highlights include: Launch of new PayPerPost.com Launch of PPP DIRECTory, promoting all of...
View ArticleGuessNow: Can Predictive Markets Be Fun?
I’ve always been intrigued by the potential of predictive markets: speculative markets created for the purpose of making predictions. That’s why I was excited when Delray Beach, FL-based GuessNow...
View Articleblogorlando 2007: I hope I can sneak in…
OK, so after talking up blogorlando 2007 to every blogger (and some sponsors) I could find in the area, I find myself locked out of registration. My bad for waiting too long to make my attendance...
View ArticleBlogWorld & PostieCon: Will I see you there?
The last time a combo this good came along they named it PB&J. BlogWorld and PostieCon are just around the corner, taking over Vegas from Wednesday November 7th to late, late Saturday November...
View ArticleBlog Ethics, Bias and Disclosure for Online Communicators
I’ve been reading Dave Taylor’s writing for the past year+ and he garnered plenty more fans before me. He’s an accomplished entrepreneur, techie and writer. For the past week over at iAOCblog.com...
View ArticleIZEA: Sponsored Social Media and so much more…
Seeing your babies grow up is bittersweet. Watching my daughters scare others at our haunted house this Halloween, instead of being scared, was both fun and sad. I feel that same conflict with...
View ArticleEven the Cloverfield Monster Does Endorsements
Maybe it’s because I’ve seen the power of respectful, well-done product placements, but I noticed a few brands (when my eyes weren’t shut) at my recent pre-screening of Cloverfield. Kudos to those...
View ArticleAm I the Key to a Secret CIA Conspiracy?
This has to be an April Fool’s Joke, but it got a chuckle nonetheless. It seems two of the companies I’m on the board of (PayPerPost & CallMiner) have a secret joint venture with the CIA to...
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