David Vivero

It's been a month or two since my last post, but I don't feel bad about it: it's a drop in the bucket. I just realized that it's been about 10 years since my last real personal web publishing endeavor before this blog. I was an incredibly geeky young kid, as seen here in my first domain, which I rediscovered at the Way Back Machine over the weekend. ...

I'm a huge fan of the holiday, and I'm happy to be spending it with my family down in warm Miami. Look forward to seeing everyone soon, in 2008!

JetBlue, why have you made such a stupid move?Sure, they're offering wifi in their airplanes, but they're limiting the connections to Blackberry email services and Yahoo instant messaging, it seems. I suppose it shouldn't come as a surprise, with JetBlue's legacy for partnering with recognizable brands for their additional services -- including DirecTV, Dunkin' Donuts coffee, Terra Blue chips, and Bliss Spa redeye bags.For me, the biggest issue ...

I had a dinner conversation tonight with one of my best friends from business school and he alerted me to the fact that a number of firms are recruiting on campus, which requires them to adhere to certain rules around offers, but are exploding their offers if they aren't accepted by some artificial date. Since he was late into the interview process with other firms, they encouraged him ...

I had a delicious lunch at Francesca Cafe in the South End with Sam Clemens (no, not Mark Twain) from the word-of-mouth marketing company BzzAgent a couple days ago, and we discussed the widespread interest in venture capital as a post-MBA career move. Sam's a Harvard MBA who worked at Greylock for a couple years after business school, so he gets a lot of calls and emails asking ...

Today, I flew JetBlue from Boston to San Francisco, a new route for them and one for which I'm very thankful. I've got meetings in the Bay Area tonight and tomorrow, and I was excited to spend half of today in the city. Of course, things never turn out as you plan. We arrived at SFO about 3 hours late, not because of any delays in Boston or in ...

I had a thoroughly enjoyable drink with Rob Go from Spark Capital tonight in Central Square, and returned home to read this press release:Verizon Wireless today announced that it will provide customers the option to use, on its nationwide wireless network, wireless devices, software and applications not offered by the company. Verizon Wireless plans to have this new choice available to customers throughout the country by the end of ...

Well, it looks like I've made it big. If you type in "davidvivero.cm" rather than "davidvivero.com," you now land at Agoga.com, a business that is said to deliver $300 million in revenue and probably $200 milliion in EBITDA. Like many in its industry, it's a cash cow.I'm flattered to be considered an affiliate of such a successful business, but unfortunately it's not an exclusive club. Business 2.0 had ...

I spent last Saturday afternoon attending the HBS Cyberposium 13 conference, where we were lucky to see an afternoon keynote by Phil Rosedale, of Second Life fame. That guy is an incredible speaker, which for me is measured in part by how intuitive and visual you can make your points. He obviously has the benefit of using Second Life, a visual environment, as a background while he speaks. ...

IAC/InterActiveCorp just announced the launch of 23/6, a comedy site that resembles the Onion, but seems a little bit better. Instead of being completely fake, the site has a "Daily Show"-like coverage of actual events during the week. In fact, many of the writers for the site come from The Daily Show and The Huffington Post. I've officially added it to my list of regular news sources, though they only cover "some of ...