Kevin Laws
Kevin Laws is COO at Vast.com. At various times in the last 20 years, he worked as an investor at PacRim Venture Partners, VP Product at Epinions.com, media & entertainment strategy consultant for Booz, Allen & Hamilton, and engineer for web products with Computer Sciences Corporation.
Recent Posts
Clickers, clickers, everywhere…
[Editor's note: We're bringing back blogger Kevin Laws for a second post, given that his one yesterday stirred the crowd. This time he writes about click-fraud.]
Recently, the Washington Post joined BusinessWeek and the New York Times in misreporting the problem of click-fraud. Each publication focuses on the hoards of clickers hired to perpetrate click-fraud and how it’s really damaging advertisers. Except it’s not really hurting advertisers.
BusinessWeek story even goes over the top, implying that Yahoo… Continue Reading
The Google Myth goes “pop”
[Editor's note: We asked Kevin Laws, a former blogger at VentureBlog, to comment on the Google-YouTube merger. Here are his thoughts. Keep in mind that his company, Vast, can be seen as a competitor to Google Base]
Google purchased YouTube for more than a billion dollars. That “pop” you hear is not the end of the Web 2.0 bubble, but the end of the Google Myth.
The Google Myth is simple: to produce good businesses, hire the… Continue Reading