Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on December 30, 2004
Person-to-Person Online Payments have been number 2 in our this years Business Plan Surgery and now one of the players in this nascent space ikobo got a first investment: "ATLANTA -- iKobo, Inc....
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on December 30, 2004
Fastclick the Internet Paid-for-Performance Advertising Solution Provider was just finishing a US$ 75 Million round and is now filing for IPO offering up to US$ 92 million in common stock. Seems a bit...
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by tj on December 30, 2004
Cord Stukenberg at Detecon has developed an overview (German, PDF) of the coming convergence between TV and mobile phones. You might be interested.......
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by tj on December 30, 2004
Eran has send in some doubts about the Matchnet figures used by VentureWire. And indeed they do not match (emphasis added) with the recent report from Matchnet itself. MatchNet has this Third Quarter...
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by tj on December 30, 2004
The SPIEGEL and Instapundit think so: "If you want to find out more information about this week's tsunami of biblical proportions in Southeast asia and how you can help the victims, the best...
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by tj on December 25, 2004
The NYT covers an interesting story - the arrest of ebay's Indian CEO Mr. Avnish Bajaj: "The arrest of the Indian-born chief of Baazee.com, the unit of eBay that is India's largest...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on December 22, 2004
eharmony has landed a US$ 110 million round that is more like a small IPO with Sequoia Capital and Technology CrossOver Ventures and others. VentureWire devotes a full story to it today:...
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by tj on December 22, 2004
This company and its management are beginning to fascinate me. They are running on high steam. I just had this update some weeks ago but we find them in the news again today with: A) A new US$ 15...
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by tj on December 22, 2004
VDI News is running a year-end collection of statements about Early stage investments in Germany (you have to sign-up for the newsletter to read it): The overall notion is pretty gloomy. Early stage...
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by tj on December 22, 2004
Seems there is some interesting change in this pioneer area of online business. First IAC is about to restructure their online travel business: "In a conference call this morning, Mr. Diller...
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by tj on December 22, 2004
I finally achieved my first Master Degree yesterday - surprisingly law that is. It somehow dragged my concentration apart from the other projects I have invested in, but I really liked to step forward...
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by tj on December 17, 2004
Splunk has announced its first round of funding with USD 5 million from August Capital and Sevin Rosen Funds. "The company's technology allows users to "splunk" IT systems, meaning...
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by tj on December 17, 2004
Hamburg based mobile games developer Elkware has decided to cash in on the mobile gaming boom and is selling the business to InfoSpace. Infospace has so far mostly been into the yellow pages and...
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Filed in archive Global Economy
by tj on December 14, 2004
The Economist has a recent survey about Indonesia and gives a hint why Indonesia is not at all the place to invest in SE Asia: "The World Economic Forum ranks Indonesia 69th out of 104 countries...
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by tj on December 14, 2004
AudioFeast has just announced their impressive Series A funding with USD 10 million. AudioFeast delivers content for offline players like Audible.com but seems to focus more on already avialable...
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by tj on December 13, 2004
You have guessed it - who might be behind easyPizza - our regular guest here Stelios Haji-Ioannou. The Independent reports about the latest launch: "Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the head of the...
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by tj on December 10, 2004
Feedster announced yesterday an investment from omidyar.net. Feedster is a bit tight-lipped with investment rounds (also the angel round gave no more details) - so no more facts have been released...
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by tj on December 10, 2004
Yahoo has acquired WUF Networks for an undisclosed amount reports Cnet. Although you may think so the newly aquired company does not sell dogfood. Instead they deliver solutions to distribute content...
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by tj on December 09, 2004
One of the most ambitious construction projects currently in Germany is run by Malaysian entrepreneur Colin Au. Au who holds 25% of the Tropical Islands entity and the Tanjong Group are building a...
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by tj on December 09, 2004
India's flight travel market has long since been overdue for change. You easily recognize this by stopping in New Delhi Airport. The Economist has more: "The skies too are being opened....
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by tj on December 09, 2004
The Economist has another good one the most recent tech survey about a technology that makes steering electric appliances possible by touching walls (or any other named object): "IMAGINE being...
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by tj on December 09, 2004
The Economist comes to grips with P2P technology: "IMAGINE an ideal global information-storage system. It would have to be huge, capable of delivering any one of millions of files, some of them...
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by tj on December 09, 2004
Another video today - interested in a good video about Hamburg, still my lovely hometown? If so try this.......
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