Geoff Yang

Generally, board meetings of early stage companies tend to resemble staff meetings. There are too many people in the room (try someone from every function?) and much of the discussion is around operational issues —…

By Tom Tunguz

Big data technologies like Hadoop, HBase, Redshift, Vertica and others store ever greater quantities of data. As the capacity to store this data increases, so does the importance of extracting value and…

By Tom Tunguz

Over the past few years, there has been a pronounced shift in the seed market. VCs now participate quite actively in the market. As a result, seed investment volumes have roughly doubled in the…

By Tom Tunguz

A team of founders who had just made their first their first hire asked me about culture and on boarding. How do they go about…

By Scott Raney

We are thrilled to announce AOL’s acquisition of Adap.tv.

We first invested in Adap.tv in 2007. At the time, online video consumption was accelerating but monetization of these video views lagged behind. It was clear to us…

By Tom Tunguz