espite being coastally challenged (currently living in Philadelphia), Josh has been an active entrepreneur and investor in the Internet industry since its commercialization. In 1992, while he was a student at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Josh co-founded Infonautics Corporation – an Internet information company. In 1996, Infonautics went public on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
Another reason to blog...
Last week Michael Arrington of Techcrunch ran a small entry about two deals we've funded - Aggregate Knowledge and BazaarVoice. He was kind enough to include a link to the First Round Capital website. 
When I took a look at my Google Analytics
data for firstround.com, I was surprised to see the real surge in
traffic that one (well-placed) blog link can bring. Our page views increased about 8x the
normal daily average. Not bad for one link in a small story.
Just today I took a look out our dealflow log -- where we log all inbound dealflow. I was surprised to see a corresponding spike in dealflow -- and that the increase in submissions persisted far longer than the increase in web traffic.
It got me wondering - what deals have I missed out on by not being part of the online conversation?
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