11 posts and columns on East Coast

Proxy Ho? Like Yahoo, AOL Could Face Alternate Board Slate From Irked Investor as Early as Today.

in News on February 24 at 1:46 am PT

Is AOL ready to come about? Hard to see.
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“Menry” Is Back at HP: CEO Meg Whitman Hires Longtime PR Guru Henry Gomez as Top Flack

in News on January 10 at 2:18 pm PT

Together again!
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What Cash Crunch? Revolution Growth Raises $450M for Its First Fund.

in News on November 30, 2011 at 8:30 pm PT

You say you want a revolution? How about an investment, instead?
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Irene Is Coming, Bringing Likely Disruptions to Power, Phones and Internet

in News on August 26, 2011 at 4:30 pm PT

Like it or not, Hurricane Irene is coming to the Eastern seaboard to mess up everything in its path. Power, phone, and Internet connections are going to be dodgy.
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Viral Video: Return From Snowpocalypse

in News on January 3, 2011 at 1:05 am PT

BoomTown barely made it out of snow prison on the East coast last week on vacation, but the fine CGI work over at New Media Animation pretty much says it all.

General Catalyst Heads West, to Find Some Young Men and Women to Fund

in Social on November 24, 2010 at 12:01 am PT

Go West, East Coast VC? In fact, the 10-year-old venture capital firm General Catalyst Partners is moving out two of its partners from Cambridge, Mass., to Palo Alto, Calif.–just in time to avoid the Boston winter.

Video: BoomTown Meets Five Non-SV Techie Dudes in 10 Minutes in Boston

in News on May 10, 2010 at 5:15 am PT

BoomTown made a trip recently to Boston, where Walt Mossberg and I talked in front of hundreds of East Coast entrepreneurs and investors at an event put on by General Catalyst Partners. The appeal for me: Checking back in with former Excite CEO George Bell, who is now a venture capitalist at GCP. Here’s my interview with him, as well as four start-ups I met with before the event, all of which are not based in Silicon Valley, a relief in and of itself.

Top Ad Sales Exec on West Coast Departs Yahoo

in News on August 17, 2009 at 8:37 am PT

One of Yahoo’s highest-ranking premium advertising sales execs–David Dickman, VP of West Coast sales–is leaving the company, people familiar with the situation said. Sources said Dickman, who will leave Yahoo at the end of the month after three years at the company, is reportedly going to Warner Bros. to work in digital sales. This comes after another ad sales exec, Todd Taplin, who ran sales in New England and Canada, left last week.
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Peter Kafka Takes On the Mediamorphosis in New ATD MediaMemo Blog

in News on October 27, 2008 at 3:10 am PT

Oh, BoomTown could not resist making the obvious literary pun on the debut of Peter Kafka’s new daily blog, MediaMemo, on AllThingsD.com. I am referencing, of course, Franz Kafka’s famous 1915 novella, “Metamorphosis,” about a man who turns into a bug–except that the transformation is fraught with so much more meaning. And thus it will be in Peter’s column, as the most excellent writer and reporter plunges into the topic–as he writes in his first explanatory post–of “the ongoing battle between the established media business and the technology that is reshaping it day by day.”

Live From New York: ATD Hires Peter Kafka to Pen a New Media and Advertising Blog

in News on September 18, 2008 at 12:11 am PT

Although we did not raid the offices of Silicon Alley Insider and “steal” Peter Kafka, as the fanciful SAI kingpin Henry Blodget alleges–had it been a raid, BoomTown would have properly hog-tied Blodget so he could not make such spurious allegations!–it is true that SAI’s current managing editor (pictured here) will be coming to work for us at AllThingD.com soon. He will write a daily still-unnamed new media blog from New York City, starting at the end of October.