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Author Archives: Ben T. Smith, IV
Hot off the Presses: The Launch of Wanderful Media
In June I introduced my new post as CEO of ShopCo Holdings. I am happy to announce today we have launched out of stealth, as Wanderful Media! Wanderful represents a media industry initiative to transform the $4 billion business of … Continue reading
Billions in Local Ad Dollars Surge to Online — But Just a Trickle to News | Street Fight
Tom Grubisich wrote a great piece on the failure of local news sites to capture the boom in revenue happening in local online. He made a great point on the news market not capturing this local revenue. “The issue that no one … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, FindnSave, Groupon, MerchantCircle, Newspapers, Silicon Valley
Tagged local, Newspaper, Online newspaper, Patch, Patch Media, venture capitalists
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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
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Newspapers’ Next Move In Expanding The Reach Of Digital Ads | Fast Company
From a piece in Fast Company about our efforts to recreate a dominant Shopping business with the newspaper and media industry. We are just getting started but with over 225 newspapers now live and hundreds more committed, when we relaunch … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, FindnSave, Newspapers, Silicon Valley, Startups
Tagged Gannett Digital, Newspaper, silicon valley, The McClatchy Company, Washington Post
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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
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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
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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
Posted in Investments, Silicon Valley, Startups
Tagged Bill Gates, Carly Fiorina, Chief executive officer, deals, investment, Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg, Michael Dell, Sergey Brin, Startups, University of Nevada Las Vegas, venture capitalists, web entreprenuer
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Ben Smith, Steve Goetz: You Are Welcome To Our Facebook Passwords If You Turn Over Your FICO Score -peHUB
Dear Employer. If you think our Facebook passwords are necessary to review our job applications, you are welcome to them. In exchange, we would like to see your FICO score and the recent credit applications of key executives. Is this … Continue reading
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Tagged A.T.Kearney, Ben T Smith IV, facebook, merchantcircle, social-media
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Ben Smith, Mark Boslet: Career Building Like A Startup: Thoughts On Reid Hoffman’s “The Start-up of You”
In the 40 years since the publication of What Color Is Your Parachute, the job market has collapsed, collapsed again and changed almost unrecognizably. The time has come for a new job hunter’s bible. Our vote goes to Reid Hoffman’s … Continue reading
Posted in A.T. Kearney, Deals, Personal, Relationships, Silicon Valley, Spoke Software
Tagged A.T.Kearney, Carnegie Mellon, LinkedIn, Mark Pincus, McKinsey & Company, merchantcircle, relationships, Risk, Startups, Tepper, UC Davis
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The less discussed, other sinister plot at groupon. – surya says too much. – surya says too much.
For all the critics from the sidelines of any game, politics, business, investing, startups, parenting, charity, and even football. Some people are hitting Groupon now. “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Silicon Valley, Spoke Software, Startups
Tagged relationships, Risk, Startups, venture capitalists, web entreprenuer
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