Posts in Behind the Scenes

It’s clear that yesterday’s post generated lots of good feedback. Let’s address some of the things we’ve heard back: First and foremost, Jeremy Wright who is actually making money in online advertising writes a great post saying that “This ‘No Money In Advertising’ Meme Needs to Die’. To be clear, I never said there’s no […]

The Interactive Advertising Bureau recently released these statistics: The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) today announced that Internet advertising revenues for 2006 are estimated at $16.8 billion, a 34 percent increase over the previous revenue record of $12.5 billion in 2005. The 2006 Q4 revenues totaled just under $4.8 billion, making it the […]

Sometimes when you’re starting a business, no amount of preparation and thoughtfulness can avert a problem. As I mentioned a couple of days ago, we got paid for our work. Nice. I deposited the check in the bank. I wrote checks to people we needed to pay. I made sure that the amount of checks […]

We’ve already discussed the fact that we’re not looking for angel investment or venture capital. We have nothing against outside investment and may be interested in it someday down the road for specific projects, but our priority is independence. This means slower growth, and fewer resources. But we believe constraints force creativity, so we’re feeling […]

This week Hillel and I are at the TED conference in Monterey, California. Unfortunately I’m not a good enough writer to convey what TED is in the amount of time I have to write this (if ever). They have done their own introduction that may help. Chris Anderson’s description, “the prerelease version of heaven”, is […]