The Gong Show

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A blog written by Andrew Parker, an unabashed tech geek. If I'm interested in something, I write about it here. Musings, ramblings, and other half-baked thoughts produced on a whim.

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May 9, 2022	Why Niche, Vertical Marketplaces Are The Future	Ryan Lee, founder and CEO of Nautical Commerce, the end-to-end multi-vendor marketplace platform.
Mar 24, 2016	Spike in investments in classified ad apps could mean the death of Craigslist	Aimee Millwood Contributor More posts by this contributor The Risk Of Reviewing The Reviewer The Army Of Ghostwriters Behind King Content When you think about the fastest growing areas for startup investments, you probably don’t think about...
Apr 10, 2015	As Vertical Marketplaces Rise, Craigslist Faces Its Demise	Jeremy Levine Contributor Jeremy Levine is a partner at Bessemer Ventures Partners. His investments have included Yelp, Shopify, LinkedIn, Mindbody and Pinterest. More posts by this contributor As Vertical Marketplaces Rise, Craigslist Face...
Mar 4, 2014	How Modern Marketplaces Like Uber And Airbnb Build Trust To Achieve Liquidity	Anand Iyer Contributor More posts by this contributor The Work-Family Imbalance Editor’s note: Anand Iyer is the Head of Product at Threadflip. Previously, he was co-founder and CTO of Hitpost, acquired by Yahoo, and managed product at IGN ...
Oct 23, 2013	UberX Drivers in Boston Reportedly Plan to Strike	Who’s shrugging now? (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images) More than once, Uber has responded to public transit strikes with cheeky promotions. One major investor even responded to the government shutdown with the cry, “Let’s just Taskr...
Oct 22, 2013	What Craigslist can tell us about the future of health IT startups and the EMR market	Similarly, in health IT, electronic medical records companies have so far tried to be the jack of all trades that do a bunch of things, like manage clinical data, patient communication, scheduling, billing, referrals and population health, ...
Sep 8, 2013	The Scale, Competitiveness, And Industrial Strategies In Mobile Computing	Editor’s Note: Semil Shah works on product for Swell, is a TechCrunch columnist, and an investor. He blogs at Haywire, and you can follow him on Twitter at @semil. I will admit upfront – I am finding it hard to keep up with all the major mo...
Apr 4, 2013	Monopolies and Startups	Christina wrote a post yesterday that got me thinking. It's not quite like working together but when a former colleague blogs, you get a bit of that "in the halls" thing that makes working in a group so great. Fortunately, Charlie...
Mar 17, 2013	Iterations: The Improbable, Captivating Pivot From Orchestra To Mailbox	Editor’s Note: Semil Shah is a contributor to TechCrunch. You can follow him on Twitter at @semil. On Friday, Dropbox’s acquisition of Mailbox marked the first time the tech community lit up in amazement and awe of a consumer transaction si...
Dec 1, 2012	The Magic of Liquidity: Web Marketplaces Still Have A Long Way To Go	Editor’s note: David Haber is an analyst at Spark Capital. Prior to Spark, David helped launch Locus Analytics, a start-up asset management business. Follow David on Twitter. I spent the summer of 2007 working at an online education startup...
Feb 17, 2012	Fun Feature Friday: Clik This	I know its supposed to be Fun Friday, but this is going to be a Fun Feature Friday. Yesterday our portfolio company Kik launched a new mobile app/platform called Clik. Clik is really just one simple feature, implemented as a mobile platform...
Jun 5, 2011	Will Airbnb Ever Be "The Airbnb For X"?	“If your company is ever used as the subject of the “X for Y” analogy, that’s success. AirBnB used to be the eBay for vacation rental. Now other companies are the Airbnb of things.” — far33d, Hacker News With Airbnb about to enter the billi...
Jun 9, 2010	Passing It On	Yesterday evening as I was leaving the office, I stopped in our conference room where Andrew was walking Christina though a liquidation model. Andrew was drawing a graph of proceeds by class of stock on the whiteboard. I wish I had pulled o...
Mar 23, 2010	Bidding Goodbye to Andrew	Four years ago this summer, Andrew Parker joined Union Square Ventures. Brad wrote this post welcoming Andrew to our firm and explaining how we found him through his blog and ours. And today I get the task of announcing that Andrew is leav...
Feb 26, 2010	In Hindsight: When VC Associates Misread the Landscape	When a startup entrepreneur tells the story of his/her mistakes and how they’ve corrected them, it’s endearing. When an investment associate for one of the more prestigious VC firms does it, it’s surprising. Union Square Ventures’ Andrew Pa...
Feb 12, 2010	Thoughts On Buzz	Reece asked me in the comments the other day what I thought about Buzz. I told him I hadn't had the time to turn it on and play with it. I did that later in the day and have been using Buzz for a couple days. So here goes Reece. I'll state ...
Sep 8, 2009	The Foursquare Announcement	As Robert Burns said so eloquently, "the best laid plans of mice and men go often askew" (that's the english translation). And so it was with Foursquare's planned announcement of their first round of financing which was originally...
Jun 26, 2009	Transcending Moore’s Law: Is This the Most Important Chart in the Technology Business?	Moore’s Law, the observation that the number of transistors that can be placed on an integrated circuit has doubled every two years, explains the exponential growth in computing power that enables all the innovation we web-heads love so muc...
Apr 26, 2009	Blogrollr Two Months Later - My Top Ten	Back in February, I wrote a post asking for a new kind of blogroll. I wanted a blogroll that implicitly determines what I read and shows that. Two days later, I had my request answered and launched Blogrollr on this blog. Blogrollr is exact...
Jan 15, 2009	The Valuation Blues (aka How FAS157 Is Tortuous)	I’m all for transparency and mark to market. As Roger Ehrenberg has blogged about consistently, investors need to know what the underlying securities are worth inside banks, brokerage firms, insurance companies, hedge funds, private equity ...
Jan 15, 2009	The valuation Blues - how FAS157 is tortuous	We are going to see a lot more volatility in fund valuations I'm all for transparency and mark to market. As Roger Ehrenberg has blogged about consistently, investors need to know what the underlying securities are worth inside banks, broke...
Dec 16, 2008	8tracks	Andrew and I met with David Porter, founder of 8tracks, the "legal muxtape", yesterday. David offered to let me try their new uploader (not yet available) that lets you drag and drop iTunes playlists into 8tracks. It’s killer. Her...
	Breaking Bad стартапера: Периодическая таблица инвесторов-блогеров	Breaking Bad стартапера: Периодическая таблица инвесторов-блогеров 18 Марта, 2015, 17:15 Майя Яровая 3820 1 Сегодня многие венчурные инвесторы и ангелы активно ведут блоги, интернет-страницы или социальные аккаунты. В Украине, например, акт...
	What Craigslist can tell us about the future of health IT startups and the EMR market	Courtesy of: referralMD While healthcare payments get bundled, the EMR industry appears to be coming unbundled. Brian Manning, the director of strategic sales at ZocDoc, pointed out in a recent blog post that the same phenomenon happening t...

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Parsers VC has collected 25 articles mentioning The Gong Show, among them “Why Niche, Vertical Marketplaces Are The Future” (May 9, 2022) and “Spike in investments in classified ad apps could mean the death of Craigslist” (Mar 24, 2016).

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Yes, The Gong Show is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Apr 14, 2023.