About Paul Kedrosky
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| Dr. Kedrosky is currently the Executive Director of the William J. von Liebig Center in San Diego, California. Using an innovative seed capital program, the Center catalyzes the commercialization of technologies from the internationally-ranked University of California, San Diego. Dr. Kedrosky is also a venture investor with Ventures West, Canada's largest institutional venture capital firm, where he is most active in consumer technologies and software. He is currently on the board of Marqui Corporation, a marketing automation software company. |
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Why Aren't Blogs Like Mine Worth Anything?
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I get emails all the time telling me that I'm #1 in this list of financial blogs, #3 in that one, and so on. My response is always the same: That's nice, but I'd rather you bought me. But no-one does. Buy me, that is.
Why not? There are oodles of reasons, not least of which is my traffic, while large among financial blogs, is vanishingly small compared to the big dogs in blog land, like Huffington Post, TechCrunch, etc. But even those folks aren't being bought, which can seem baffling given their success, influence and growth.
The folks at Breakingviews have put up a provocative take on the question, arguing that blogs don't deserve high prices because business is all ads, because they are too tied to founders, and because there are no barriers to entry. I don't entirely buy the argument -- the media business in general has low barriers, but they are being schmeissed because of over-reliance on classified ads -- but it's still worth reading. Check it out.
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