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Will · 3 years ago

I also left a big corp to go it alone so know you've taken a brave step. The site looks great and sure it'll go a long way. Good luck Matt from London.

Chris Yeh · 3 years ago

Congratulations Matt! Best of luck in your quest to be the latest to jump from journalist to content mogul. Om better watch out!

Noor Menon · 3 years ago

Loved SiliconBeat. Now that VentureBeat is your main focus, I'm sure it'll be even better. I'm happy for you. (And I'll try not to be "promiscuous.")

Dave · 3 years ago

Congratulations Matt! So this is what you were up to when you interviewed me about Fanpop! It's great that you've ventured out on your own. Very timely in light of the Business 2.0 article. The site looks great and has a very nice NYTimes feel to it. I'm subscribing right now!

Pat Phelan · 3 years ago

Looks great Matt
Best of luck with it.

Paula · 3 years ago

Matt, congratulations on a brave new venture and a great looking site. Have always been a big fan of yours and knew you were going places. From Geneva

Boris Babic · 3 years ago

This site is now read in Serbia, as well. A lot of generally interesting stuff, not just a look around your corner, in that geographic sense. And I'm sure it'll only become better, bigger, cooler and, akhem, "funner."
Boris, Belgrade

paulpod · 3 years ago

Matt, brave move and it looks like you are off to a cracking start, with an excellent site - good luck with VentureBeat.

Mike Pate · 3 years ago

Well Done Matt !!
I Look forward to the day when the entrepreneurs of New Zealand will make your site the first reference of their day.

David Scott Lewis · 3 years ago

Matt, sounds like a great gig. What I'm looking forward to is not just a free version of the best from VentureWire Professional and PE Wire, but the columns written by you and your contributors. (Ditto for my favorite blog, Emergic. Rajesh Jain's insights are much more valuable than his article clippings and summaries, although they're great, too.) More analysis, focused news, is a good thing.

BTW, I've left Worksoft (which you covered in May) and I'm now with a firm with a special relationship with Tsinghua University, China's MIT. (Our CEO is also the head of outsourcing at Tsinghua.) The company, Startech Global, helps (mostly) U.S. firms launch research centers in China, staffing them with (mostly) Tsinghua talent. High-end software development: Data visualization, bioinformatics, fuzzy control systems, things like this. Anyway, I'm coming across a lot of Tsinghua incubated start-ups, so when you decide to expand your coverage to include China, let me know and perhaps I can contribute as I already do for AlwaysOn, the Sand Hill Group and Business Forum China.

Sahad P V · 3 years ago

Hey, great move. Congratulations! I was wondering why you hadn't taken this step earlier :-) Look forward to reading you at VB.

Tom Foremski · 3 years ago

You did the right thing Matt. But what took you so long... :-)

Sean Wise · 3 years ago

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Let's give up for Mr. Matt Marshall. Still giving us the news we need, but now with his own entrepreneurial viewpoint.

Writing both a column on Venture Capital myself (albeit north of the border in chilly Canada) and a blog on the same topic, I know how tough it can be balance all parties' interests.

Best of luck to you Matt, I'm sure this will be a huge success.

Sean

jamescoops · 3 years ago

Hey matt - was great to meet you in London with umair and co. good luck with the new blog.

James

James Borton · 3 years ago

Matt,

An excellent debut. Count me as a new contributor. I continue to cover the emerging China venture capital space and the linkis with Sand Hill Road.

wayjer · 3 years ago

Congratulations Matt, I loved SiliconBeat and look forward to what you will bring to the table in VentureBeat, I made many a front page on Digg with your stories from SiliconBeat. I look forward to many front page stories on Netscape from your content. Keep up the awesome work.

Richard Lusk · 3 years ago

Congratulations Matt, best of luck. The new site looks terrific!

Danny Sullivan · 3 years ago

Congrats, Matt -- and best of luck with the new launch!

dan farber · 3 years ago

I have bookmarked the site...looking forward to my daily read
DF

Stewart Alsop · 3 years ago

Matt: Congratulations. I left Infoworld in 1984 to publish my own newsletter. I love to see journos go out and learn how to do business! Of course, I didn't have to sell advertising to do my business... But, whatever you do, don't take any money from vulture capitalist! :-)

Stewart

John Furrier · 3 years ago

Congrats Matt. Venturebeat will be a hit. Count me as a subscriber.

Good move and I like the site design.

su Nguyen · 3 years ago

Keep up the good work!!! YOu are doing great.

Thanks!!!!
Su

Joe M · 3 years ago

Well done Matt....here is to new beginnings!! The site looks great. Best of luck.

Brad Bowers · 3 years ago

Congrats on taking this next, big step Matt. I'm sure you'll have great success based on the value of what you are providing to your audience.

Ted Grafe · 3 years ago

Congratulations Matt! The site looks terrific. I'm looking forward to running a couple legal opinion column ideas by you. Cheers!

Rob Hof · 3 years ago

Wow, great-looking site, Matt. Best of luck!

Neil · 3 years ago

Congratulations on the launch. The site looks great. I'll be checking in daily. It certainly can be scary to venture out on your own but I'm sure you'll find, like I have, that its well worth it. Congrats again!

Mark Lee · 3 years ago

Matt:
Please do not be the official PR firm for both Google and KP.

Startups.in/India · 3 years ago

Matt, Our best wishes for a great future.

Otis Johnson · 3 years ago

Congrats Matt!

All the best with VentureBeat. I am a big reader and will continue to do so. Question - will you be covering the upcoming Web 2.0 conference in November?

BillSaysThis · 3 years ago

Best wishes, Matt, and please keep up the quality from SB even without your old partner. Thor did his usual great work.

Matt Marshall · 3 years ago

Thanks everyone, for kind words.

Mark Lee, you crack me up. No, won't be PR machine for KP and Google. Google, in particular, has harangued me for my hard-edged coverage of them in the past. I would agree, though, that I've tucked the scalpel recently. I will not promise anything here, b/c words are cheap. But stay tuned...

Alex Le · 3 years ago

It's sad that SiliconBeat has been closed down because it was my most regularly visited site, and it means that I have to update my bookmark. But every end opens up new begining. I'm glad that VentureBeat does have the posts from SiliconBeat and the same entreprenuer spirit still remains.

Please keep up the good work. You guys are doing an amazing job.

"words are cheap" - what a great line!. Matt, you are the man

Eghosa · 3 years ago

fantastic Matt...official congrats on the new gig...love the new site...already bookmarked on my b'berry... :-)
cheers, eghosa

Brian Solis · 3 years ago

Matt...Stewart Alsop, Danny Sullivan, Tom Foremski??? Way to go!

Baris Karadogan · 3 years ago

Matt,
Congratulations. I look forward to reading VentureBeat and let me know if I can help you in any way. I already sent some linklove your way.

SB regular · 3 years ago

All the best.

Siliconbeat had soul. Lets hope you maintain that over here.

Robert Andrews · 3 years ago

Interesting stuff. Good luck will all this, Matt!.

Daniel · 3 years ago

Felicitaciones Matt, he seguido tu Blog en SiliconBeat y espero que esta nuev aventura sea todo un exito
Gracias
Daniel Varela
Chile- SouthAmerica

Russ Anderson · 3 years ago

At least for me, your right column (the contributors) is not working properly. Congratulations on the new site.

Erika Brown · 3 years ago

Matt,
Congratulations on launching your new publication! I expect great things from you--and I'm impressed by what you've done so far.

Jordan · 3 years ago

yo whats up

hiutopor · 2 years ago

Hello

Very interesting information! Thanks!

Bye

simon · 1 year ago

thanks for the post