Steve Case was interviewed by Paul Sherman at yesterday’s Digital Media Conference in Arlington, VA. I also captured a panel by research analysts on digital media trends, a panel by VCs, and I did a panel on the iPad + Media. I asked Steve a question about focus, saying that as an entrepreneur I had to be extremely focused, but I saw him doing many things (he’s Chairman of Revolution, StartupAmerica and The Case Foundation)...

Yesterday’s phenomenal Digital Media Conference kicked off with research briefs by analysts from Comscore, Parks Associates and CEA.  Here was the panel title: Research Presentations: Top Digital Media Trends Shawn DuBravac, Chief Economist & Director of Research, CEA Elise Neel, VP, comScore Marketing Solutions, Director, comScore Heather Way, Research Analyst, Parks Associates Two highlights...

Props to Frank Gruber and his entire TechCocktail crew for a great event in DC last week called the Startup Mixology conference. Steve Case gave the keynote, followed by a variety of panels and presentations. I was on a fundraising panel that explored various aspects of raising money for a startup. You can find the live blog transcript of the panel here.  On a related note, I’ve written a series of blog posts about our experience...

Disruptathon is a unique event, largely because the audience votes for the winners in realtime via a mobile app, but also because it focuses on disruption. Last night I presented Socialize in the Disruptathon competition which took place at Gannett’s headquarters.  ReadWriteWeb, which covered the event, had this to say: Socialize was proclaimed the winner by the crowd, which voted on special iPod Touches that were handed out to...

I’ll be in DC for three events on June 16 and June 17.  If you’d like to meet up, drop me a comment below! I’ll be on a panel called The Realities of Funding at 1:25pm on Thursday June 16th.  Here are details: 1:25 – The Realities of Funding - David Steinberg, Jill Stelfox, Daniel Odio, Christopher M. Schroeder, Bobby Ocampo, John May Socialize was selected as one of eight finalists to present at the...

I attended last year’s FounderConference, which was at MSFT’s Mountain View campus, and captured the content of the event.  I also took a panoramic shot that Alain used for the 2011 conference, and in exchange he comp’d a ticket for me to attend this year. As part of my goal to help entrepreneurs worldwide be more successful (i.e., my fundraising manifesto), I’ve captured the content of this year’s Founders...

I needed to get from our office at 153 Townsend St over to Kicklabs at 181 Fremont St.  In the elevator on the way down, some colleagues suggested I try Uber. I’d ridden in their pedicabs at SXSW and figured, why not, so I installed the Uber iPhone app and asked for a driver. Sofian showed up 4 minutes later in a cream colored Lincoln Town Car (the only cream colored executive sedan in the Uber fleet, he proudly informed me).  He...

I have to give some kudos to Microsoft.  Earlier this week I was invited to a dinner for “mobile influencers” in Silicon Valley.  Where did they choose to host the dinner?  In Cupertino, of course.   To my left was a mobile product manager for eBay, and across from me one from Foursquare.  Microsoft is obviously serious about mobile, and I think everyone is very curious to see how their big bets pay off. We were given...

I and several hundred other SF hipsters got to spend some quality time with the GirlsInTech crew tonight watching Dennis Crowley talk about the rise of Foursquare, and why we should all check in more often.  Liz Gannes of the WSJ’s AllThingsD did an hour-long interview with Dennis, who was in town scoping out office space for an expanded Foursquare presence in San Francisco.  Dennis said Foursquare is up to 8.5MM users and growing...

You might know SecondMarket as the go-to stock exchange for private companies, but apparently they’re also positioning themselves as thought leaders in the mobile space as well.  It’s smart — I’ve said before that mobile will be way bigger than people realize, and it feels like they think so too. Props to Adriana for setting this event up; it was stellar.  Here are some quick notes I took on what was covered, but...