Playdek Is Serious About Play
Founding a new video game publisher is a daunting task. Every day the video game industry gathers momentum in its headlong dash to the “social mobile” space and the old guard of what we knew as the video game business are being left behind. Or they are disappearing altogether. At Playdek we have noticed and we’ve taken the trend very seriously...
Don’t Look Now, Your Costs are Showing: Cost of Goods Sold in SaaS Companies
Accounting. Accruals. GAAP. These words are probably not the first things that pop up in the mind of a startup founder as he or she assembles a team, develops a product, acquires customers and runs a business. As CPAs, though, we believe that these and other related issues a should be treated as critically as any other business decision.
Co-working spaces for companies, not consultants
We started Centzy in June 2011 with two people. Centzy is now six people and will be at eight in May. Between joining an incubator, traveling, being displaced by Hurricane Sandy, and general moving around as we grow, we've now worked out of over a dozen different co-working spaces over the last two years. We are currently based in WeWork Labs in West Soho and love it here.
Pros and Cons of Performance Pay for Journalists
Gawker’s Big Board, which hangs prominently in the Gawker’s headquarters tracking the top performing stories, has long been lauded as a key to the success of Nick Denton’s publishing empire. Even old school publishers like Forbes have embraced performance pay... So does performance pay make sense for brand publishing? Let’s examine some of the pros and cons.
New Director of Communications at ff VC
Last week, I joined ff Venture Capital in a newly-created role as Director of Communications. I will be handling the public relations and communications strategy in-house for ff and will be working closely over time with our 60+ portfolio companies.
Intern at a breakout startup this summer--or a VC firm!
Do you hack fast and break stuff? Do you eat, sleep, and breathe startups? If so, we would love to speak to you.
Deep Linking in Email Marketing: How it Works, and Why it Rocks!
The beauty of deep linking is that it eliminates extra clicks, brings content closer to consumers, and enables people to more easily take the actions they intend on taking. This eliminates friction from the process of taking action (for example, launching and using a mobile app), resulting in more people actually taking the action that you’d like them to.
ESPN Athletes With Serious Klout
What do comedy and sportsmanship have in common? A few athletes profiled on ESPN love using social media to show their wit.
Helping startups hit a home run, VC Style
Lots of venture capitalists claim to add value to the companies in which they invest. But how do they do it? And does it really produce better returns for their investors?
Your Idea is Only 5% of the Journey (Part 1 of 2)
When we first started Distil, we knew we had a great idea. The problem is that being an entrepreneur isn’t about ideas as much as it is execution. There are millions of great ideas in the world, but if you can’t successfully build or execute on them, they stay just that...
