As an entrepreneur, your time is a very valuable asset. It takes as much time and effort to Read More
A few of weeks ago Webtrends analyzed 11,529 Facebook ad campaigns representing 4.5bn impressions to see what conclusions Read More
Late last year, Aaron Batalion (one of the co-founders of Living Social, a Lightspeed Portfolio company) gave a Read More
How to estimate lifetime value
In many businesses, repeat purchase behavior is a key driver of value. Many companies track percent of repeat Read More
One of Lightspeed’s consumer internet predictions for 2010 is that brand advertising dollars are going to start to Read More
A lot of the startups that have quickly reached millions in monthly revenue rely on the arbitrage of Read More
Engagement in social games
On Friday, I moderated a panel at the social gaming summit featuring speakers from Zynga, Playdom, Playfish and Read More
There has been a lot of speculation about Zynga’s revenue. Last week Business insider said: Zynga, the social Read More
Interview with CEO of Serious Business
In December I posted an interview with the CEO of Playdom that Atul Bagga, the gaming analyst at Read More
2010 consumer Internet predictions
Once again, Lightspeed is going to go on record and make some predictions for 2010, in the areas Read More
This is the third year that I’ve tracked my birthday greetings as they have moved from private channels Read More
One of the great stories of Silicon Valley is how Josh Hannah and Jack Herrick bought eHow’s assets Read More
Dan Cook follows up his great post on how freemium beats advertising as a business model for flash Read More
Sunday’s New York Times Week in Review writes about the power of the brand as a verb: Perhaps Read More
AdAge has a good article today about how AOL has been attacking Web publishing where it notes: In Read More