Filed in archive Technology
by tj on December 28, 2005
Mike Masnick has news from the Chinese hype generator bookee.com: "Over the summer we wrote about a bizarre story about a Chinese blogging firm that was getting attention for claiming that it was...
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by tj on December 23, 2005
As you know - or do not yet - we do sponsored posts at our network. The deal is very simple - we get a piece of custom information about our sponsor. This information is then compiled into a post......
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Filed in archive Entrepreneurship
by tj on December 23, 2005
Remember our discussion with WeblogsInc some weeks ago? After some wrangling we changed our header. Now after such a victory what happened? Is there something mysterious going on? Have I missed...
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Filed in archive Entrepreneurship
by tj on December 22, 2005
German based VDI Nachrichten has published a pretty extensive survey asking German Business Angels and researchers about the state of entrepreneurship and business angels. Nothing surprising in there...
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by tj on December 21, 2005
The AlarmClock reports about freshly financed startup ScanR: "ScanR, a startup out of Palo Alto raised some money today to support its product in beta. Backers include Trinity Ventures, Thomvest...
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Filed in archive Global Economy
by tj on December 20, 2005
If I'm not thinking and talking about business or blogging you'll probably find me analyzing the weather. Being blessed with a very stable climate zone here in Northern California where...
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Filed in archive Entrepreneurship
by tj on December 15, 2005
Wow - not long ago we all have been musing about the nice networks but too little applications of a network built up at Linked (Business Introductions and Recruiting) or Friendster (Dating). But just...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on December 15, 2005
Daniel Primack sums up in his newsletter the story of MVNO Amp'd: "It's been four months since I first began researching and writing about Amp'd Mobile Inc., the Los Angeles-based...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on December 15, 2005
So you are planning to revolutionize the car retail market online which apparently has had little online/offline conversion so far. What you need to do - think big and spend some money! And as...
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by tj on December 14, 2005
Ok - Internet Consumer startups have been out of fashion for a while but since Hamilton Av in Palo Alto is full with incubated startups again you should consider this job: "Company: Consumer...
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by tj on December 14, 2005
Overstock's CEO Patrick Byrne who sometimes proudly glances over to VCs in the same room who did 'fail to agree to finance' his company and told him he won't achieve anything and now...
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by tj on December 14, 2005
It's always nice to get some inside perspective into Ueber Entrepreneur of the year Niklas Zennstroem - Andrew Davidson at the London Times delivers this: "He seems embarrassed to be there,...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on December 13, 2005
According to Daniel Primack the Siemens Mobile Accelerator, Siemens mobile venture arm is shutting down and trying to load off its portfolio. "Siemens Acceleration in Communications is shutting...
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Filed in archive Events
by tj on December 13, 2005
We do enjoy the first day of Syndicate here. It is a perfectly organized industry event. The food is great, the Wifi rocks and and the whole atmosphere is more intimate (I guess between 150 -200...
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Filed in archive Entrepreneurship
by tj on December 12, 2005
Axel Schultz - German born entrepreneur who was heading Partner Relationship Management Software Provider BlueRoads until now announces on his blog he is moving on: "When I initiated the...
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by tj on December 12, 2005
David Galbraith is analyzing the Yahoo/ del.icio.us deal: "The Bay Area prides itself on the sophistication of its investment structure, but most of the successful Web 2.0 'exits', from a...
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by tj on December 09, 2005
Yahoo snaps up del.icio.us - Om Malik has a great overview of sources about the deal: "Yahoo continues with its Web 2.0 makeover. The company snapped up the bookmarking service del.icio.us today,...
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by tj on December 09, 2005
If you are interested in the RSS and syndication space and the upcoming opportunities you should check if you can make it to Syndicate in San Francisco next week (Dec. 12-14th). "Themed...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on December 09, 2005
Interesting private equity investment by Warburg Pincus in solely India based web marketing firm Webshastra. "Webshastra aims to be India's leading provider of online media advertising...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on December 09, 2005
The funding spree for Open Source Business companies is not going to end soon - this time it is Business Intelligence: "Today, Pentaho Corp., the world's leading provider of Open Source...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on December 08, 2005
Redherring reports that EA buys Jamdat: "Video game giant Electronics Arts said Thursday it's buying mobile games maker Jamdat Mobile, the name behind popular games like Tetris, for $680...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on December 08, 2005
PEWeek reports two interesting new fundings just next door: "Adchemy Inc., a Palo Alto, Calif.-based Internet marketing startup, has raised around $6.35 million in Series B funding, according to...
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