Great post on why there is such thing as raising too much venture capital: The more money you raise, the faster you raise it, the higher the expectations are… and the faster you must meet those expectations. This can easily kill a company in an emerging space. http://bit.ly/40XPXN

Scott Rafer’s Blog “Content is like technology. The people specifically in charge of producing it mistake it for enterprise value whereas the value is always in sales and distribution.” http://bit.ly/11LYWw

Venture Model Makeover & Diet Plan—Step Two http://bit.ly/3qwNyf — Love this post and its content but Paul Kedrosky doesn’t answer the key question– how do we get LPs to drive this? The standard 2 and 20 structure persists for the same reason banking fees do (Felix Salmon » Blog Archive » Why investment bank profits persist | Blogs | http://bit.ly/1LF3tV)

Looked like some interesting stuff at http://nycdemoday.com/. Descriptions here for posterity: http://bit.ly/243rHs

Amazon’s EC2 Generating 220M+ Annually | Cloudscaling http://bit.ly/4zLMOA– This has been passed around the internet and it’s great analysis, at least from an outsider’s POV.

Interesting post on iPhone and metered pricing. Typically, tech products move towards all you can eat because of the economics (low/no marginal costs). I think this case says more about AT&T’s failure to execute than anything else. In their situation, I can see how tiered pricing can help.

AT&T should dump the iPhone’s unlimited data plans. – By Farhad Manjoo – Slate Magazine http://bit.ly/4agkUK

Online media companies should learn from the current Twitter-Google dynamic:
“Sources said a number of scenarios are being discussed to compensate Twitter for its huge and potentially valuable trove of real-time and content-sharing information, generated from the data stream of billions of tweets of its 54 million monthly users.” http://bit.ly/1bRdrJ

Practical Tips from FirstMark Capital’s Online Marketing Summit « Just Getting Started http://bit.ly/2b5Efn

Revealing Google’s Stealth Social Network Play « Altimeter Group : A Holistic Approach To Emerging Technologies “This is the stealth threat — that today’s social networks won’t really be losing share to the “Google network”, but rather, that they will become slowly less relevant as EVERYTHING gets social thanks to advances by Google.” http://bit.ly/Jdoy2

Verizon Wireless notoriously guarded their deck from competitors so I view their alliance with Android as a watershed moment. http://bit.ly/3qpOBP