My interview with Laura Martin of Needham & Company

I saw leading Wall St media analyst Laura Martin of Needham & Company debate the future of Netflix on stage at the Banff World Media Conference in June and caught up with her after to expand on her assessment of the streaming giant and the streaming video landscape more broadly. Check out the transcript of our conversation on TechCrunch >>

Wall St analyst Laura Martin on the fate of Netflix, breaking up Google, EU regulation, and a decade of more money for Hollywood

My interview with Northzone’s Paul Murphy on the next era of gaming

Paul Murphy is a London-based general partner at VC firm Northzone who previously founded the popular mobile game Dots when he worked at betaworks in NYC.

Paul looks at a range of startups but 2 of his 4 first investments at Northzone have been related to gaming. I interviewed him on his current investment theses and where he sees opportunity in gaming for entrepreneurs. Read the transcript on my TechCrunch column >>

Northzone’s Paul Murphy goes deep on the next era of gaming

Fundraising 101: How to trigger FOMO among VCs

I talk to startup founders every day, a portion of who are inevitably fundraising. I noticed successful serial entrepreneurs I know have more methodical approaches to how they raise money from VCs and create competition among potential investors.

So I asked several of them to share their tactics. Read the post on TechCrunch >>

Fundraising 101: How to trigger FOMO among VCs

Where top VCs are investing in media, entertainment, & gaming

In my TechCrunch column, I just posted long-form quotes from these 9 sharp VCs on their investment interests in the media, entertainment, & gaming space. If you’re an entrepreneur planning to raise money (or an investor curious what your peers are focused on), I suggested you give it a read.

My interview with Northzone’s PJ Pärson

Today I posted an interview in TechCrunch that I did with Northzone general partner PJ Parson at the SLUSH conference in Helsinki.

We talked about the core investment thesis that has guided him for 20 years, how he went from running a fish distribution to running a VC firm, his best practices for effective board meetings and VC-entrepreneur relationships, and his assessment of the big social platforms, AR/VR, voice interfaces, blockchain, and the frontier of media.

Read it on TechCrunch

New Resource: a Database of Media Investors

I have several projects in the works to make Monetizing Media a helpful hub for media entrepreneurs, executives, and investors. The first was the daily MediaDeals newsletter which is going strong. The second has just launched: a crowdsourced database of media investors around the world.

The List of Media Investors is an interactive spreadsheet (powered by Airtable) with both investment firms and the individual investors who work at them. You can browse the whole thing or search by location, investment interests, geographic focus, investment type, etc.

This database will be crowdsourced among the Monetizing Media community, so expect it to get regular updates showing what certain investors are interested in, whether they’ve switched firms, what their twitter handle is, etc.

I encourage you to help make it a great resource for everyone in the industry. Take a look and use the links there to make suggestions or updates!