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True Ventures Featured on Mark Suster’s This Week in VC

June 21, 2010

True Ventures was featured in back-to-back week of Mark Suster’s This Week in VC.

In week 9, Mark Suster interviewed Mo Koyfman about Spark Capital, trends in technology, and the startup eco-system in NYC.

During Mo and Mark’s discussion of Spark Capital’s new website, they used True Ventures’ Service Recommendation page as a great part of a website – one that they both plan to copy in the short-term.

Then in week 10, Mark interviewed True Venture Partner Om Malik.  The interview discusses True’s emphasis on being friendly to entrepreneurs, Om’s work with Red Herring and Business 2.0, and True’s funding of GigaOM in 2005.

Check out the week 9 video and the week 10 video at This Week in Venture Capital Online.

Thanks, Mark!

Om Speaks to BC’s Tech Trek

March 1, 2010

BC Tech Trek

This evening Professor John Gallaugher of Boston College and his Tech Trek students visited the GigaOm offices in San Francisco to hear Om Malik speak on founding GigaOm, venture investing at True Ventures, and reporting on the high tech industry.

It was a great group of students, who asked excellent questions and many of whom plan to apply to TEC 2010!

For information on TEC 2010, check out the program website and appy.

GigaOm Pro Launches

May 29, 2009

Yesterday GigaOm boldly launched GigaOm Pro. As detailed in his introductory post, Om has long envisioned this step as an essential piece in the evolution of the business & technology media landscape. Blogs have proven to be incredibly powerful in breaking news and stimulating conversation around a topic from thousands of thoughtful perspectives (Katrina, Mumbai, Sully’s Flight). In this manner, blogs have changed the media landscape forever.

But in our assessment, the potential of blog-based media is still in it’s infancy, and there remains tremendous opportunity for new media companies to go deeper on topics, create longer form, more in-depth discussions of important trends, and follow stories over time (much in the way that traditional journalism has famously done in news papers . . .think the Washington Post’s coverage of Watergate over multiple stories and months of doggedly pursuing a thesis, or their more recent series on Walter Reed Hospital – both examples top of mind as they were so eloquently discussed this past week at D7 by Katharine Weymouth and Arianna Huffington). Instead of just breaking the news, the best of traditional journalism has often change our world in long form and over a series of stories.

New media has this potential, but to succeed it will require combining all of the hustle and speed of today’s bloggers with new product attributes. Longer-form journalism online requires different packaging, an analytical perspective, significantly different form, and the fostering of a community engaged over the duration of a story or trend’s analysis. Most importantly, in order to produce and enable this type of discussion, new media companies must possess a culture that believes in journalism first, page views last.

We’re surely biased, but we believe GigaOm is incredibly well positioned for this opportunity. The company has successfully built and scaled a network of sites in our industry’s most significant sectors. The talent on the editorial team has broken important stories, established a credible voice in our ecosystem, and consistently produces fantastic analysis. Most importantly, GigaOm has been built on an ethos of journalistic integrity. For everyone who knows and reads Om and his team, it’s overwhelmingly clear that they are first and foremost journalists (and very good ones).

But there is more to do. A longer, more thoughtful conversation is waiting to be had, and GigaOm has just started it.

We’re excited to see Om and Paul evolve the media landscape with GigaOm Pro. Congratulations to the entire team on a really well executed product launch, and congratulations on so boldly evolving our industry.

Top Blog: GigaOm

May 21, 2009

Tech PR Pros conducted a study of 2009 “Best of the Blogs,” which included top technology blogs, leading writers, and the perceived reach of their influential efforts. GigaOm was high on the list of Top Ten Tech Blogs. Additionally, several of the Top Ten Tech Pub Blogs feature GigaOm content.

The list of Top Ten Bloggers included not only Om Malik but also GigaOm writer Stacey Higginbotham. Congratulations, Om, Stacey, and the fantastic GigaOm Team!

Three Times Is A Charm

January 1, 2009

PC Mag has named NewTeeVee, Ostatic & WebWorkerDaily as three of its favorite blogs from 2008. All three of these blogs are GigaOm properties. Very impressive, Om, Paul & crew!

GigaOm Daily For Your Daily Om

October 1, 2008

GigaOm Daily provides a live microblog-based newswire, inspired by Dave Winer’s concept of “river of news.” Om has listened to the laments of time-constrained readers and responded with a Twitter-style micro-newswire. This super-simplistic news solution features 15 to 30 short posts daily with editorial inputs from the GigaOm network, which can be received as an RSS or Twitter subscription or as a once-a-day email newsletter.

GigaOm Content Featured On CNNMoney & NYTimes

September 23, 2008

Back in July, GigaOm announced a content partnership with BusinessWeek with selected content from the GigaOm properties to appear on the BusinessWeek.com site several times per week. Yesterday, Om announced the GigaOm Network content will be featured on Time Warner’s CNNMoney.com, the online home of Fortune magazine, Money magazine and several other publications. This coverage will include broadband, VoIP, Internet infrastructure, mobile devices, wireless innovation, digital media and venture capital, among others. Today, Om announced a content distribution partnership with the New York Times’s web site as part of their technology channel.

Keep up the great work, Om & Team!

GigaOm Acquires TheAppleBlog

September 15, 2008

Today, Om Malik announced the acquisition of TheAppleBlog, which is, as the name indicates, all about Apple products and services. TheAppleBlog is the seventh member of Giga Omni Media’s growing blog network and the second acquisition this year. In July, GigaOm acquired mobile gadget blog jkOnTheRun, which informs readers on all things mobile from mobile phones to cloud client computers.

Mobilize with GigaOm

September 5, 2008

GigaOm will host Mobilized, its Next-Generation Mobile Conference, on Thursday, September 18th, 2008 at the Mission Bay conference center. Keynote speakers include Rich Miner, Co-Founder of Google Android and Padmasree Warrior, CTO of Cisco Systems. Join Om, Paul, and the GigaOm team as they engage the future of the mobile internet.

Click here to register with a 10% discount.

Om Announces New CEO

September 2, 2008

Today, Om announced the appointment of Paul Walborsky to the position of CEO at GigaOmni Media. When Om started GigaOm, he had a much larger vision for the company than just his GigaOm blog, hence the formal company name “GigaOmni Media,” which is the official name. We believed then that his vision for a new kind of publishing company in the business and technology news segment was a big idea. At True, we are used to big things starting small, but watching a great entrepreneur create and build never ceases to amaze and impress us. Om is that entrepreneur at GigaOm, and he has flawlessly built a very real company in a very exciting market. The blog-based media industry has changed dramatically in the last two years, and Om has consistently bet on the right people, products, and markets to navigate this industry. Om’s steady hand, bold vision, and sheer force of will created this opportunity for us all.

The promotion of Paul is a great example of a Om’s talents and judgment at work. Paul joined us in June of 2006 as the COO of GigaOm, but his relationship with Om went back many years before his start date. Like most good business partnerships, Om and Paul’s relationship was built on mutual respect and a tremendous amount of trust built over many years of working together. Paul’s abilities were appreciated on day one. He took charge of the business side of the house, which freed up Om to pursue his passion: writing, editing, and new products. Paul fit well with the team, and his focus and skill moved the company beyond the start-up phase. As partners this past year, Paul and Om successfully built additional products and blogs for GigaOm: NewTeeVee, Earth2Tech, jkontherun, Ostatic, WebWorkerDaily. They started a conference business and have a few other innovative products in the pipeline. Paul’s promotion today will allow the company to further these developments and expand in other significant ways.

As an investor, today’s announcement is a CEO hire of the best kind. Today, our Founder Om promoted someone he knows well and trust very much. Paul shares the founding vision of the company but also brings the depth of experience and judgment that we need to take the company to the next level of scale and growth. He is a natural leader, and his people skills and genuine empathy have made the GigaOm family stronger and tighter.

We are entering the next phase in the growth and professionalization of the blogosphere. This next phase will be characterized by significantly larger business opportunities but also additional risk and uncertainty due to the changes in the adjacent mainstream media markets. We are now in the world of higher table stakes and bolder moves on a larger scale. Bigger risks, and bigger rewards. These are exciting times ahead, and all of us at True and GigaOm feel privileged to have Paul as our leader.

Congratulations Paul, Om, and the entire GigaOm team on this wonderful achievement.

Well done, GigaOm!!!

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