Announcing a slight blog change; hopefully combining both of my blogs will be an easier way to combine interests and fragmented content than defraggregation.

July 2008:

In an effort to split out a couple of different interests, going forward, this site [Taylor Davidson Photography, Travel & Culture] will remain focused on photography, travel and cultural musings, and all business, entrepreneurship and innovation thoughts will be posted at Unstructured Thoughts.

After nearly a year, today I’m recombining the interests. Here’s the details:

Why am I doing this?

  • I’m combining the blogs to find a better way to link interests rather than divide them into different silos; frankly I’m finding it harder to truly separate the interests and conversations.
  • Depending on the ranking or measurement metric you prefer, this blog is one of the top 30 to 100 blogs about venture capital, which I find somewhat odd since it’s increasingly less about venture capital and more about the broader world of entrepreneurship and innovation. Combining this with my photography blog (oddly, one of top 20 to 100 blogs about photography in its own right) should be an interesting experiment.
  • And honestly, simpler is better…

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  • Venture capitalists are like skilled chefs. Their dishes - the successful companies in their portfolios - are most valuable when the firms remain small and retain their own distinct style. When a chef tries to mass-produce a menu item, the dish loses value - scaling a batch beyond its ideal size degrades its quality. Likewise, when partners of VC firms take on too many deals and overstretch themselves with too many companies to look after, they can no longer add sufficient value to each portfolio company.

    Tan Yinglan

    The Way Of The VC - Top Venture Capitalists On Your Board (http://www.tinyurl.com/wayofthevc)
    Blog: http://www.wayofthevc.com
  • I like this. It seems like the best way to get work that is perfect for you--by showing people the whole picture of who you are.
  • Thank you; I also hope it creates some interesting conversations by
    bringing together different people; we'll see...
  • Personal branding, FTW! (Sorry, just had to say it.)
  • Combining left- and right-brains in a more cohesive manner, FTW :)
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