FISTFULAYEN

I’ve been a fan of This Week In Startups for a very long time. I watch it (and Mark Suster‘s This Week In Venture Capital) nearly every week. So it was an honor for me to be asked on the show. Watch the video below for some talk of the early days of the web [...]

In the shameless self promo department, here are a few things coming up I’d love to see you at: FRIDAY, MARCH 25th, 11AM PT TOPSPIN WEEKLY WEBCAST (RSVP) – No matter where in the world you are, please join Bob Moz and me for this Friday’s LIVE FROM TOPSPIN (we really need a name for [...]

I discovered Jay Reatard‘s Blood Visions via one of WMFU’s year-end best-of lists a few years back. I’d heard The Reatards years earlier but Blood Visions became an obsession. It remains one of the best one-man punk showings ever, and definitely the best of this century. Jay signed to Matador, released a handful of singles [...]

In April of 2008 I left Yahoo! to join a brand-new and still-stealth company called Topspin. Founded by Peter Gotcher (Digidesign) and Shamal Ranasinghe, the vision which drew me in was one of building software which would do for media marketing what software had done for media production (ProTools, Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, etc) in [...]

I know SXSW is supposed to be fun, but truth be told it’s mostly work for me. Last year the only music I managed to see (apart from GBC) was two songs from one band (the band was Twin Sister and I went on Yancey‘s recommend, and he was right, they were great). SXSW is [...]