After a long period of speculation, it has been confirmed that AT&T has acquired adtech pioneer AppNexus. The financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed but sources with knowledge of the transaction have indicated the value of the transaction is approximately $1.6B. AppNexus primarily provides a sell-side platform (SSP) for publishers to monetize their […]
Ben Horowitz
Startup Urgency: A Balancing Act
I recently finished reading Ben Horowitz’s book “The Hard Thing About Hard Things.” Normally I am not one for business books, but this one was pretty solid. Maybe at some point I will do a review, but the reason I bring it up now is the single word that whirled in the back of my […]
Hard Startup Wisdom from VC Ben Horowitz
Building a startup is hard. I know this because Ben Horowitz told me so, and I’m generally inclined to take his word for it. Of course, you don’t need someone else to tell you that. You live it every day. What you do need is someone to guide you through the rough patches—someone to give […]
Want to be an Entrepreneur? Then Get Your MBA
I am an entrepreneur — a moderately shocking fact for a kid from Cleveland, Ohio. What’s more shocking? I’m a very proud graduate of UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. Yep, I willingly left the workforce for two years in order to pay to attend business school. There is a standard list of reasons […]