What’s Coming in Internet Advertising: 12 Predictions for 2012

Posted on January 10, 2012 by robhof

I did my annual predictions first on my Forbes blog, The New Persuaders, since they’re focused largely on the Internet media and advertising I cover there. On that blog, they’re done as separate posts, but I wanted to gather them up in one place here, as I’ve done in previous years. So here’s what I [...]

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Beyond the Wow Factor: Why LinkedIn’s IPO Matters

Posted on May 19, 2011 by robhof

It would be easy to take today’s blockbuster initial public offering by business networking service LinkedIn as a sign that the IPO, the fuel for the tech industry’s wealth-creation engine, is back. But one IPO on the first day won’t tell us that. It’s just as easy to dismiss the rocket-ride to well over double [...]

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What’s Coming on the Internet in 2011 (Or Not)

Posted on January 2, 2011 by robhof

I know I shouldn’t do it–predictions too often are either obvious or wrong–but I can’t help it. If I have to think about what’s coming in 2011, and I do, I might as well inflict those thoughts on the rest of the world. Isn’t that what blogging is all about? Anyway, here’s what I expect [...]

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What Happened in 2010–and Didn’t

Posted on December 30, 2010 by robhof

Somehow I persuaded myself a year ago to offer up predictions for what would happen in 2010–and what wouldn’t happen. Now it’s time to take my medicine and see how I fared. What I said would happen: * Merger mania will accelerate in technology, especially acquisitions of smaller firms. OK, so it was a bit [...]

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Mike Moritz and Steve Streit at TechCrunch Disrupt

Posted on September 28, 2010 by robhof

Michael Moritz, perhaps the key partner at Sequoia Capital, is “the most powerful venture capitalist in Silicon Valley,” says TechCrunch editor Mike Arrington. Moritz is onstage with Steve Streit, founder and CEO of financial services company Green Dot, a Sequoia-backed company that went public in July at a $2 billion valuation. They’ll be talking about [...]

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To IPO or Not to IPO: Live at TechCrunch Disrupt

Posted on September 28, 2010 by robhof

IPOs traditionally are the grease that keeps Silicon Valley’s gears turning. There’s no lack of startups today, but the big question is whether initial public stock offerings will ever become a viable way for investors, founders, and employees to get a return on their money and work. When even the likes of Facebook and Zynga [...]

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LIVE from TechCrunch Disrupt: Peter Thiel

Posted on September 27, 2010 by robhof

Peter Thiel may be best known for being an early investor in Facebook, though his investments look like a Who’s Who of hot (and once-hot) companies in latter-day Internet startups: Yelp, LinkedIn, Powerset, Friendster, Slide, and many more. The president of the hedge fund Clarium Capital, Thiel is speaking in a fireside chat with my [...]

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LIVE from TechCrunch Disrupt: Fireside Chat with Reid Hoffman and David Sze

Posted on September 27, 2010 by robhof

Now we’re on to the fireside chat with Reid Hoffman, cofounder of LinkedIn prolific angel investor, and VC David Sze. They’re both partners at Greylock Partners. TechCrunch editors Mike Arrington and Erick Schonfeld are moderating. Hoffman: Today, we’re announcing Greylock Discovery Fund, a $20 million seed fund to operate very quickly to invest in startups [...]

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LIVE from TechCrunch Disrupt: Super Angels Vs. Super VCs

Posted on September 27, 2010 by robhof

The upcoming panel at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco this week suddenly became the flashpoint for the show last week when TechCrunch editor Mike Arrington wrote a blog post on how he crashed a dinner of angel investors and accused them of collusion. A maelstrom of charges, leaked emails, and countercharges ensued. Now [...]

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What I’d Like to Happen in 2010 (But Probably Won’t)

Posted on January 4, 2010 by robhof

I just foolishly offered some predictions on what will happen in tech and and on the Internet this year (and what won’t happen). Now, I’d like to offer a few things that I wish would happen: * Cell phones provide decent call quality. I really don’t get folks who don’t have a landline, because cell [...]

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