Sarah Lacy

Recent Articles by Sarah Lacy

September 15, 2009

Cleantech: Selfishness Sells

So you bought An Inconvenient Truth on DVD. You drive a Prius. You offset your carbon footprint by seeding rainforests in the tropics. You even very seriously ...

September 1, 2009

Is Twitter Pimping Porn to Family Users?

Back in March, I wrote a column about how Twitter is a closer competitor to Facebook than MySpace is. Twitter and Facebook are more utility than media sites, I argued....

August 19, 2009

The Mercenaries in Facebook's Midst

In 2007, when Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was pressed about when his company would sell shares to the public, he said he was in no rush. "I don't think four more ...

July 30, 2009

Amazon-Zappos: Not the Usual Silicon Valley M&A

Cover a few mergers and acquisitions in techland and you'll quickly learn the difference between what companies say and what they mean. A few examples: Acquirer says: ...

July 13, 2009

SendMe: Watch Out, iPhone App Makers

Readers of a certain age will remember TV commercials aimed at showing that Kellogg's Frosted Mini Wheats appeal to both the adult and the kid in all of us. In the ...

June 22, 2009

Does Silicon Valley Still Matter?

It's a truism in tech that entrepreneurs who want to build the next Google must come to Silicon Valley. The area's importance as a tech hub was reinforced earlier this...

May 20, 2009

VC Markets: No Easy Answers

The venture capital industry has been a slow-moving train wreck for much of the past decade. And one of the more radical steps aimed at avoiding disaster may only ...

April 30, 2009

Social Gaming Scores in the Recession

Gaming goes gangbusters in a downturn. In 2001, the Nasdaq was plunging and such tech mainstays as telecom, e-commerce, and enterprise computing were in a tailspin. ...

March 20, 2009

Google: Beware the eBay Curse

There's a reason why cocky Silicon Valley startups fancy themselves the "The Next Google." The search giant embodies Silicon Valley at its best: product developed by ...

March 4, 2009

The Coming Facebook-Twitter Collision

Every time monthly Web traffic numbers are released, you can expect at least a half-dozen blogs to run a graph showing Facebook gaining on MySpace in some made-up ...