Rob Go
In search of things new and useful.
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VC’s always talk about the “deals” they have done. The word is thrownaround like crazy and is ingrained into the VC vocabulary (deal flow,deal pipeline, my deals etc). I think “deal” is one of the ugliest words in the business. […]
This is the first post in a series of interviews on Product Leadership. I’m very pleased to kick this series off with an interview of Max Ventilla at Google. Max was a co-founder of Aardvark, a social search company backed […]
This past Friday was my last day at Spark Capital. It has been a privilege to be a part of this team. I have grown in ways that I didn’t expect, and was glad to be part of a firm […]
I’m pleased to have David Knox guest blogginig on robgo.org today. For those of you who read my blog, you’ll know that I’ve done a series on Brand and CPG marketing on the internet and why I think it’s going […]
I’m getting my IPAD this weekend, which makes me think that I’m going to do even more reading in the near future than I already do. RSS has made a little resurgence in my life recently. It’s nice to have […]
In honor of SXSW, which I sadly missed this year, here are my predictions for the next big areas of innovation on the web in the near future. I am going to completely ignore mobile and geo, since it’s an area […]
Being a VC, it’s easy to fall out of touch with mainstream consumers. I spend so much time with geeks and early adopters that I sometimes forget that most people have no idea what Foursquare, Blippy, or OMGPOP are. Some […]
This is a continuation from my previous post about fast followers. Several times a week, I hear a pitch from for a company that is fairly similar to existing players in the market. When I ask the entrepreneur how they […]
I previously wrote a To-Do list for new entrepreneurs arriving in Boston. It included a bunch of folks to follow on twitter and on their blogs, events to go to, and companies to get familiar with. I’d like to add […]