Top Posts & Pages
- Retail is not dying… just transforming.
- Wanderful Acquires iCircular to Enhance Local Discovery Shopping
- Wheels up! Wanderful Media is headed to Orlando
- The Dumb Things We Say in the Startup World
- Ben Smith, Mark Boslet: Career Building Like A Startup: Thoughts On Reid Hoffman’s "The Start-up of You"
- About Ben T. Smith, IV
- peHUB » Doug Kilponen, Ben Smith: First They Ignore You, Then They Want To Buy You: Managing The Startup-Big Company Relationship
- Six Ways to Show Appreciation to Your Employees
I advise, found, and invest in new media and technology companiesTweets
- RT @fredthompson: Kiefer Sutherland's anti-terrorist TV series "24" will return to Fox this season. In the opening episode, Jack Bauer gets… 1 day ago
- "..magic of Silicon Valley is not in fostering risk-taking, but instead in making it safe to work on risky things" inc.com/philip-rosedal… 2 days ago
- RT @WanderfulMedia: So You Want to be a Media Mogul: Lessons From Econtent Entreprenuers: ow.ly/l24Mc via @econtentmag ft. @bent… 4 days ago
- RT @dgwynn: Leaving the @WanderfulMedia #chico office via the Kodiak http://t.co/4Oy286RSIx 4 days ago
- RT @NAACEO: #DOJ seizure of #AP phone records shocks the American conscience and violates freedom of the press. naa.org/News-and-Media… via … 4 days ago
-
Recent Posts
Categories
Stuff I post about
A.T.Kearney advertising alabama Ben T Smith IV borland business davin deal and no deal deals Discovery shopping Disney ecommerce facebook Find n Save game show network google GSD internet startups investment Lee Enterprises local maples McClatchy Company merchantcircle Mergers mobile Newspaper newspapers Online advertising Online Shopping relationships Retail Retailers Risk shopping silicon valley social-media Spoke Software Startups tablet technology venture capitalists video Wanderful Media web entreprenuer
Tag Archives: Startups
The Dumb Things We Say in the Startup World
I recently co-authored an article, “The Dumb Things We Say in the Startup World” with Mark Menell, a former partner at Rustic Canyon and the past COO & CFO of ShopRunner. Having worked together on several ventures, Mark and I … Continue reading
Posted in Silicon Valley, Startups
Tagged advice, business, lessons, pandodaily, relationships, Startups, tips
Leave a comment
Love the Ones You’re With. Why Startup Success Depends on Relationships | SiliconANGLE
I recently wrote this post with Doug Kilponen, COO at Wanderful Media. Having worked together on two different startups over the course of several years, it has become clear to us that loyalty is the secret ingredient for success. The media … Continue reading
Posted in MerchantCircle, Relationships, Silicon Valley, Startups, Wanderful Media
Tagged Blekko, business, CodeGear, Loyalty, merchantcircle, Odeo, Startups, Team, Topix, Twitter, Wanderful Media
Pinterest – Pinning Down Its Value For Retail | MediaPost
This is a great piece I wrote with Ron Adams, VP of National Sales at Wanderful Media. The Wanderful team is focused on connecting local retailers with consumers, and we see a huge opportunity for retailers to capitalize on areas … Continue reading
Posted in FindnSave, Silicon Valley, Startups, Wanderful Media
Tagged Discovery shopping, Online advertising, Online Shopping, Pinterest, Retail, Retailers, shopping, Startups, Wanderful Media
Retail is not dying… just transforming.
By Seema Sud and Ben T. Smith, IV VHS was going to be the cinema killer in the late ‘70s; and yet, 30 “DVR, Blue ray and big screen TV” years later, cinema is more popular than ever and the … Continue reading
Posted in FindnSave, Silicon Valley, Startups, Wanderful Media
Tagged Discovery shopping, mobile, newspapers, Online advertising, Online Shopping, Retail, Retailers, shopping, Startups, technology, Wanderful Media
Wanderful Media raises $5 million in new funding round
It’s been an incredible year for the retail and e-commerce industries, especially when it comes to discovery shopping. For Wanderful Media, 2012 will be defined as a year of building, and the theme for this year will be delivering. We’ve … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Silicon Valley, Startups, Wanderful Media
Tagged Discovery shopping, funding, mobile, newspapers, Online advertising, Online Shopping, Retail, Startups, tablet, technology, Wanderful Media
2012: A Year of Building
If you think about it, every year takes on a character, or theme, of its own depending upon goals we’ve set, decisions we’ve made and unplanned events that take place along the way. 2011 was driven by a few great … Continue reading
The newsonomics of Amazon vs. Main Street » Nieman Journalism Lab
A great piece on the importance of retail advertsing to the newspaper business and the indirect fight between Amazon and the papers happening now. “Classifieds has decimated by interactive databases. National has migrated strongly digital. Retail, which made up of … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, FindnSave, GSD, Silicon Valley, Wanderful Media
Tagged advertising, Ben T Smith IV, Find n Save, marketing, Newspaper, newspapers, Publishers, Startups, Wanderful Media
The Newspaper Industry and Digital Ads
Newspapers are probably never completely going away. In fact, they are never going away. Newspapers have traditionally supported themselves through advertising. Advertisers pay newspapers to publish their ads, which gives the papers the money they need to publish the paper, … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Deals, Newspapers
Tagged advertising, Ben T Smith IV, investment, newspapers, ShopCo, social-media, Startups
1 Comment
Building a Shopping Solution
I have been involved in ShopCo Holdings just about two months now as the Chief Executive Officer. I figured it is about time I start sharing a bit about it. ShopCo Holdings is a company backed by 12 large US Media companies … Continue reading
Posted in Deals, FindnSave, GSD, Silicon Valley, Wanderful Media
Tagged A. H. Belo, Ben T Smith IV, business, Find n Save, GSD, investment, Lee Enterprises, local, McClatchy Company, MediaNews Group, Startups, Wanderful Media, web entreprenuer
Victor Belfor, Ben Smith: Backing A College Dropout Might Be Your Smartest Investment Strategy
I recently invested in two companies whose founders either had little interest in school as students or who dropped out of grad school: MixRank and Influitive. Both management teams are driven, hard working and well prepared for the difficult road … Continue reading
