I’m the CEO of Swap.com. We’ve set out to become the largest online swap market in the world. We let people list their unwanted items, like music and movies, on our website and swap them for stuff they do want.
Our business model requires users to place a great deal of trust both in our company [...]
The holy grail of entrepreneurship… taking a venture public. It has been a rocky time for entrepreneurs and ventures with this goal. The credit crunch, mortgage crisis and overall economic environment has stymied initial offerings for the last several years. Surely some companies did go out…but not many.
Yesterday, Demand Media sold 8.9 million shares at [...]
I participated in Gridley & Company’s 10th Annual Marketing -Inernet-Financial Technology Conference in New York yesterday. This post to share some reflections about the conference, attendees and information that was shared.
- Linda Gridley knows how to bring out some of the best private companies within the digital and financial technology industries. The roster of companies and executives [...]
Mass High Tech featured Swaptree in “The Mover” section of this business journal today. The focus of the post is on my new leadership of the company and our all encompassing focus on the customer experience. Customer experience must be at the core of any strategy for consumer Internet ventures. Full story is here.
Great post today by Rob Go posing the question is Boston the next hot city for entrepreneurs?
This is not new territory to Boston. We have led the minicomputer wars with Digital, Wang, Data General & Prime. We had two big time entrants in the Web 1.0 world with Lycos and Monster.
We surely have some great [...]
It is not very often that you get a chance to participate in building a business category.
I have been a digital citizen since the mid-1990’s when I joined Lycos. In my executive roles at Lycos I had a front row seat to the emergence of the Internet Search category. I also played a pioneering role [...]
Entrepreneurs are an interesting group of people that can be described in many ways: smart, creative, visionary, energetic, risk takers, inventors, persistent. The process of entrepreneurship is very exciting and an awful lot of work all in one.
I come from a long line of entrepreneurs that worked on many creative ideas, concepts, products and [...]
1. ReadWrite Lauds Oneforty
2. Happy 90th Birthday Johnny Pesky
3. Over 2 Billion iPhone Apps Downloaded
4. Photo.Net Tribute To Photography
5. Oneforty Launches Twitter App Store
6. NameMedia Niche Sites On The Move (Again)!
7. Small Businesses…Start Blogging
8. Verrill Farm Grand Opening
9. Social Media Makeover
10. Hats Off To Derek Jeter
11. Tech Stars Boston Big Night
12. New Best Friend
13. It [...]
NameMedia’s network of niche web sites were in the #2 spot in the comScore’s Top Ten Gaining Sites for August 2009!
The NameMedia network includes many niche web sites that include: Photography.Com, Photo.Net, Gardens.Com, DavesGarden.Com, Tarot.Com, DailyHoroscope.Com, Geek.Com, Stampers.Com, Craftster.Org, RockClimbing.Com and many more.
NameMedia was second to the surging NFL sites for August atop the comScore growth [...]
