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Re: We're Hiring

mathew johnson — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:18:57 -0000

mathew johnson

mathewgjohnson at gmail dot com

www.mattishness.com</p>

Re: Why We Don’t Invest In Competitive Businesses

mathew johnson — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 01:11:14 -0000

'open marriage' is what kids put on their myspace pages as a joke - and a funny one at that. i am pretty sure that myspace/facebook is the primary venue for this term.

Re: We're Hiring

mathew johnson — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:18:57 -0000

mathew johnson

mathewgjohnson at gmail dot com

www.mattishness.com</p>

Re: Why We Don’t Invest In Competitive Businesses

mathew johnson — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 01:11:14 -0000

'open marriage' is what kids put on their myspace pages as a joke - and a funny one at that. i am pretty sure that myspace/facebook is the primary venue for this term.

Re: The Veils At Bowery Ballroom

mathew johnson — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:41:40 -0000

Advice appreciated: I am thinking about going to see Rilo Kiley at Webster Hall on the 22nd when I am in town from Seattle - but Webster Hall doesn't seem like the nicest venue - definitely not a small, cool club, and I like Rilo Kiley's previous album a lot better than what I've heard of the latest one.

But I still can't decide whether to go while I am in NYC

Re: Bug Labs - Photos

mathew johnson — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:39:20 -0000

As I understand it, the point of Bug Labs is more of a development tool/platform - but for hardware - not ultimately meant to be widespread end-user devices - the idea is to let technical people build innovative hardware faster by combining some of their own custom work with other pre-existing modules in interesting and non-obvious ways - just as happens with web development these days. The best combinations could then be distilled down into a non-modular refined version for end users. That's a pretty big idea!
-Mathew Johnson
http://www.blist.com/

Re: Disqus Gives Users What They've Been Asking For

mathew johnson — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:46:29 -0000

what is the search-friendly piece? the comments dont look like they show up in the source for this page - is it just that they show up over on disqus?

Re: Google Ad Planner vs comScore

mathew johnson — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:10:37 -0000

that john batelle quote is so concisely brilliant re: data/stats/context
goes way beyond just purely google/comscore

Re: links for 2007-09-06

mathew johnson — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:48:34 -0000

New CEO blogger, Kevin Merritt of www.blist.com just wrote a pretty great post on entrepreneurship here:

http://www.blist.com/blog/index.php/2007/09/07/...

Re: Want some of that Skype cash? Call Atomico

mathew johnson — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 18:43:00 -0000

To start a VC firm with a quick and reasonably-sized exit like last.fm right off the bat is fantastic. I have no doubt that Atomico will quickly develop a reputation for being 'smart-money' within the world of vc firms.

btw nice first name - too many people spell it with 2 t's
:)

Re: Embracing the Cloud

mathew johnson — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:58:14 -0000

your asus plan sounds really cool, chris - i like it - obviously, sux about the theft, of course.

Re: In Memoriam

mathew johnson — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:10:10 -0000

sorry to hear this, chris - as rahul put it - best to you and yours.
-mathew

Re: Pando, Perenety latest competitors to BitTorrent

mathew johnson — Tue, 02 May 2006 09:57:47 -0000

Pando-
That could be a great way to install spyware on other people's computers!
Excellent!

Re: The Google Test

mathew johnson — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:17:25 -0000

Wasn't old Leland Sr. a railroad baron, not an oil baron?

easy facts to get straight.

Re: Introducing VentureBeat’s job board — for $100,000+ jobs

mathew johnson — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 15:05:01 -0000

i want make $100K - where sign up?

Re: Whisher tackles FON -- launches its own WiFi nation, with Benchmark backing

mathew johnson — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:38:51 -0000

how funny would it be if the whisher app just cracked wep, and that was it?

Re: Sequoia Capital vs. ComVentures

mathew johnson — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:37:44 -0000

more interestingly - did anyone see the comventures team profile photos?

http://mattishness.blogspot.com/2007/02/where-a...

Re: Roundup: Cognition’s search, Jaxtr, TrustedID, AppleTV, Palm’s sale

mathew johnson — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:01:18 -0000

natural language search is asinine - no one searches by writing proper sentences

http://mattishness.blogspot.com/2007/03/natural...

Re: Mobile landgrab: Microsoft releases Deepfish, follows Minimo Project

mathew johnson — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:45:15 -0000

this is msft's acquisition of seadragon paying off already?

madrona put a small amount of money in to seadragon and had it sold on to msft in like 6 months. nice quick work. and returns.

Re: BritePic — photography may never be the same

mathew johnson — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 19:48:36 -0000

so 'right-click, copy image location' won't just give me the image location with britepic? how about a ff extension that 'reverts' that functionality? doesn't sound too hard.

Re: Tesla swerves, will sell high-tech batteries to others

mathew johnson — Tue, 22 May 2007 11:52:26 -0000

awesome - picks & shovels, picks & shovels

Re: Roundup: Ooyala to launch, Google gobbles Greenborder and more

mathew johnson — Tue, 29 May 2007 12:18:01 -0000

sean knapp, from fox island to venturebeat:

http://mattishness.blogspot.com/2007/05/ooyala-...

Re: Hearst buys Kaboodle, a social shopping site

mathew johnson — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 12:23:23 -0000

building out a nice technology asset - like kaboodle did in the shopping space is a good insurance policy in case you fail to build market share and solid revenue - which is hard in the shopping space.

Re: Roundup: Google invests in China/Tianya, gDrive, Pubmatic and more

mathew johnson — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:56:12 -0000

For further reading about Pubmatic, ReadWriteWeb has some good coverage, as well.

Re: The Marshmallow Test

mathew johnson — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:46:49 -0000

not much to say other than the right-sidebar essay series is fantastic and i look forward to each new one - keep them coming!

http://mattishness.com

Re: What motivates an investor to say “yes”

mathew johnson — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:27:58 -0000

Mentioning investors "bending their investment criteria" is a good point - all startup investments are quite different, and my personal feeling is that you are in trouble already if "investment criteria" come up.

http://blist.com/blog/

Re: Carry your genome around on your iPhone

mathew johnson — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:24:42 -0000

ha ha awesome!

it's "right stuff dating" 2.0 - and speaking of, i don't buy that the seven sisters should be grouped in with the ivies and stanford. not at all.

Re: Microsoft — the Facebook of the enterprise?

mathew johnson — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:05:55 -0000

it's easy to forget that enterprises love sharepoint - it's a killer product for msft.

Re: Keibi, for busting porn on social networks

mathew johnson — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:52:58 -0000

. . . i know it when i see it :)

Re: Reinventing the Series A

mathew johnson — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:35:09 -0000

and here is some good advice from Kevin Merritt at blist on selecting an attorney for your startup - especially in Seattle:

http://www.blist.com/blog/index.php/2007/09/10/...

Re: Adobe buys Virtual Ubiquity, maker of Buzzword word processor

mathew johnson — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 02:22:16 -0000

As a beta tester, I just got an email saying that Virtub has just 'secured the rights' to the domain buzzword.com - nice to be basically spending o.p.m. on a domain that was no doubt pricey.

Re: Zoho launches online database application Zoho DB

mathew johnson — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:02:03 -0000

if no one else is going to comment here, i will - zoho db looks really good, and we are happy to be competing:
http://www.blist.com/blog/index.php/2007/10/03/...

Re: Kannuu, for simpler data entry and database searching

mathew johnson — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:39:08 -0000

very neat and clever - t9 is a great analogy (but different as mentioned). t9 certainly turned out to be a great deal for investors in tegic. some of that team have been working on http://www.melodeo.com recently.

Re: ReachLocal aims to take down Yellow Pages

mathew johnson — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:06:57 -0000

I'm fairly certain that throwing $55M down the cold-calling locksmiths rathole doesn't fulfill any reasonable definition of fiduciary responsibility.

I'm not saying you can't make a business out of local online yellowpages sales, I am saying that you can't make a venture return on $55M. Fail.

Re: Microsoft invests $240M in Facebook, as Facebook develops ad product

mathew johnson — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:08:02 -0000

i think msft played this one beautifully - the valuation is not important - msft was able to put in a much lower figure in absolute terms, which is not much for them, and capture a measure of influence and control that would otherwise have fallen into the hands of an arch-rival. no problem.

Re: MerchantCircle, helps small businesses market online — aggressively

mathew johnson — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:56:42 -0000

They should use some of their credit line to acquire Localmarketers - a small Seattle co that took ~$600K from Madrona

Re: Salesforce now lets companies easily share data — passively

mathew johnson — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:27:12 -0000

We think this is going to be very far-reaching for SFdC - because data can be chopped up and recombined much more easily than a DOC or a photo or even a spreadsheet - this kind of sharing can just be so much deeper than the simple share-this-document paradigm.

-mathew johnson

Re: Adchemy raises $19M to use science for online ads

mathew johnson — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:39:31 -0000

i'll sell someone the domains 'adosophy'and 'adsophy'

:)

Re: Adchemy raises $19M to use science for online ads

mathew johnson — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:07:01 -0000

macaroni mike - i like your sense of humor!

cheers!

Re: Persai, a personalized online news aggregator

mathew johnson — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:48:12 -0000

in before persai!

Re: http://venturebeat.com/2009/01/13/aster-data-raises-12m-for-cheap-warehousing/

mathew johnson — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:05:35 -0000

anthony - nice post - aster data is a really good company with really solid technologists - one thing that's interesting is how they tick both the boxes of cloud computing/distributed systems and traditional enterprise sales model.

that seems like a good way to be both ahead of the curve, and fundamentally grounded.
mat

Re: Zimbra tops 40M paid users: More popular than Gmail?

mathew johnson — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:14:05 -0000

anthony -

i wonder what % of zimbra's paid mailboxes are from the comcast deal? it would be easy for me to believe that comcast could push out 30M email addresses to broadband subscribers.

-m

Re: Max Niederhofer | European Venture Capital: The Optimal Way to Board Plane Passengers: Astrophysicist's Computer Simulations Suggest We're Doing It All Wrong

mathew johnson — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:56:51 -0000

max - isn't it that there are a lot of http calls to playlist.com generated from loading myspace and facebook pages with project playlist players on them? That's quite a bit different from some of those other sites that are more of destination sites.

mathew

Re: Max Niederhofer | European Venture Capital: The Optimal Way to Board Plane Passengers: Astrophysicist's Computer Simulations Suggest We're Doing It All Wrong

mathew johnson — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:57:47 -0000

sorry - meant to comment on the playlist.com post - operator error ;)

Re: A math nerd’s perspective of the world - Here’s a couple book recommendations

mathew johnson — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:40:39 -0000

And, to round out your list: Misbehavior of Markets

http://www.amazon.com/Misbehavior-Markets-Benoit-Mandelbrot/dp/0465043550

Re: Reader question: What’s the difference between “Viral Marketing” and “Word of Mouth?”

mathew johnson — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:01:09 -0000

. . . it's just that not as many people talk about organic, word-of-mouth virality because it's a *lot* harder to engineer - remember how viral google was when you first heard about it just because it was so much better than altavista or whatever else you were using to scratch around the internet with.

Re: 5 factors that determine your advertising CPM rates

mathew johnson — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:34:25 -0000

definitely out-analyzed t.c. on this one ;)

Re: 2007/03/20/joost-diversion/

mathew johnson — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:41:56 -0000

i have 3 or 4 joost tokens that i must give away today:

http://mattishness.blogspot.com/2007/02/interne...

Re: 2007/04/06/ripl/

mathew johnson — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 19:18:20 -0000

i would not be surprised if madrona participated in this $2M round.

Re: 2007/08/23/adaptiveblue-smartlinks/

mathew johnson — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:33:13 -0000

this list widgets are really reminding me of the ThisNext ones.

http://mattishness.com

Re: How to Survive a Physical Attack: Punches and Chokes

mathew johnson — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:39:28 -0000

are you an advocate of a grappling style like gracie jiu-jitsu over a striking style like jkd for self defense?

Re: What Happens When an Agnostic Follows the Bible Literally for One Year?

mathew johnson — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:12:42 -0000

The world would be a much less interesting place without Brunonians like AJ Jacobs!!

Great interview subject.

Re: Bill Gates attends Swedish nuptials of pal Charles Simonyi

mathew johnson — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:19:00 -0000

i like how billg apparently flew commercial rather than private to sweden - otherwise he wouldn't have been walking through kastrup.

Re: Report: iLike looking to be sold

mathew johnson — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:43:00 -0000

ive always been curious about the size of ilike's itunes affiliate revenue - basically how well it has worked out to join affiliate links with social distribution.

Re: Live Search GM leaving Microsoft

mathew johnson — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 05:07:00 -0000

@2 - it could be argued that not being responsible for cashback and the name 'kumo' is a pretty big gold star.

Re: Looking To Its Future, NYTCO Sees A Tech Services Company; Patents Pending

mathew johnson — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:15:35 -0000

I think one good analogy might be Amazon in that Amazon built by far the leading e-commerce business, and is now opening some of its proprietary systems up, and building new ones, so they act as a leading technology provider to not only other e-commerce businesses, but also all kinds of web-staartups via ec2 s3, etc.
NYT is the clear winner in online news, highest quality and most consistently innovative - I'm sure most other online newspapers and magazines would love to be able to leverage some of the infrastructure and processes that NYT have built up for themselves in-house.

http://www.blist.com

Re: Why We Don’t Invest In Competitive Businesses

mathew johnson — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 01:11:14 -0000

'open marriage' is what kids put on their myspace pages as a joke - and a funny one at that. i am pretty sure that myspace/facebook is the primary venue for this term.

Re: We're Hiring

mathew johnson — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:18:57 -0000

mathew johnson

mathewgjohnson at gmail dot com

www.mattishness.com</p>