I'm not sure what it is about me & ad firm Crispin, Porter Bogusky. I've been running into them pretty consistently since back in my Startup 1.0 days, and not just in the "Crispin seems to be everywhere lately" way. Just the other day, I saw that Crispin won Microsoft's ...

People who know me know that I like my gadgets. The money that some people would put into high-end suits, shoes or watches is money I put into electronics. The latest goodie is a MacBook Air with 64mb SSD. I've gotten a lot of questions, so I figured I'd put ...

A certain little man turns three today. Happy birthday, dude! The home office is full of hidden Transformers, Power Rangers and Legos until he gets home to open things up. (I can barely resist opening some of the stuff up myself!) Being an entrepreneur has afforded me the luxury of a calendar ...

Everyone once in a while, I'll get a sudden reminder of how far things have come. It doesn't seem like that long ago that I was bugging my parents for the latest Intellivision game or pining for a 5.25" disk drive to replace the cassette drive on my Commodore 64.But ...

I had the most unexpected flashback in the midst of writing yesterday's post. I was just typing the part about eroding audience at TV networks when I started to type "superbowl.com." Here's the story. A client and good friend from NationsBank traveled with me from Atlanta to New York City to ...

I just saw that NextNewNetworks has secured B-round funding to the tune of $15mm. It’s a nice follow-up to the $8mm they raised from Spark Capital in early 2007, and testament to the audience they’re building rather quickly. I heard an early overview of their then-unannounced business model from co-founder Fred ...

With all the stock market volatility lately, I've almost been able to convince myself that I did the right thing a few years ago by exiting one of my "buy & hold" portfolios early. I say almost because I made a handful of bets in 2002, and called the portfolio ...

After a flurry of business reminiscing last week, we'll keep today light by just saying, "Happy Birthday!" to my Dad. (No, the photo is not recent, although that trendsetting hairstyle does seem to be making a comeback lately...) A lot of my most valuable lessons in life have come from ...

If common elements exist among successful startup stories, I suppose it’s that the winners pay close attention to their business every day. They know their markets intimately and know when their company’s value goes up and down almost instinctively. They know how to amplify value-building actions and kill the things that tread ...

I should probably get a few things out of the way right here in my first blog entry. TwiceFunded doesn’t mean I’m pecking these posts from my private island, reclining in a scene that looks like a Corona commercial. It doesn’t mean I bought my Bugatti Veyron 16.4 with my first exit event, and ...