Posts in Behind the Scenes

In a bid to always be listed first in any event directory, the cleverly named American Association of Advertising Agencies (the AAAA) is having its annual Media Conference and Trade Show in Las Vegas this week. I’ve never been to this conference and have no idea what to expect. But given that we have a […]

I have no idea how one-sided this writeup is of what happened to Filmloop. And there’s no doubt that even if it is true, it’s not completely representative of how most VCs operate. That said, even if you assume that the VC did the right thing, and it was time to cut their losses, as […]

Starting a new business (at least for me) can be kind of scary. All the doubts and insecurities are relatively normal, but can be exacerbated by the fact that often, early on, you’re kind of on your own. Even with additional folks, advisors, friends, and family, it can still be very very quiet sometimes. One […]

Part of the “excitement” of setting up a new business is setting up all the services a typical business needs including finding an ISP. After waiting for the Comcast for a week to tell us they could not deliver cable to our fab space, and after mopping up our tears at not being able to […]

As much as transparency (on a variety of fronts) makes so much sense to me when I read about it I’ll admit it’s still slightly counter-intuitive. One thing that I think has the potential to be particularly interesting is writing about the experiences we’re having building the business from an inside perspective. So to follow […]