Filed in archive Entrepreneurship
by tj on February 28, 2005
This company continues to amaze me: Secured $85 million in funding to bring total funding for the company to $127 million. TechTarget's $85 million represents the fourth-largest private funding...
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Filed in archive Global Economy
by tj on February 25, 2005
This Forbes article on Germany's state of economy is harsh but honestly there is not much to disagree with: "Germany's acute sense of failure and unhappiness. This is a collective...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on February 24, 2005
Tom Evslin has up - nothing shockingly new but good stuff: "One question under debate is: "is venture capital a good or bad thing?". This is a pretty silly question since the answer...
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Filed in archive Technology
by tj on February 24, 2005
Paul Allen writes about start-up Insider Pages: "Today I discovered a new Idealab company called Insiderpagesthat is focused on the local yellow pages market. All the local listings are created...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on February 24, 2005
A lot of venture investments in this company recently: "Paid Content reports Business.com's $6.5M round of financing led by IVP. Company also raised a $10M round only a few months ago...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on February 23, 2005
Mark at our Dating Weblog quotes: "ABS-CBN NEWS -- Feb 22 -- Friendster endured three CEO's during 2004 and has seen a spate of senior executives depart in recent weeks. New CEO Scott Sassa...
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Filed in archive Technology
by tj on February 21, 2005
says RSS/ blog tools face commoditization already: "Back to Jeff's coverage -- it's great. While the official Demoletter site has a good overview of the companies, Jeff gives his own...
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Filed in archive Technology
by tj on February 21, 2005
Inspired by our Wired Home blog I was playing around with some tools to get my new home wired. I so far decided for a projector to bring a decent picture to the walls. But I wasn't that sure...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on February 21, 2005
art.com has raised US$30 million from lead investor Polaris Ventures. Quite interesting story as art.com is more 10 years old and has 200+ employees. Read on.......
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on February 21, 2005
It is not the usual way these days that German start-ups dare to look for an IPO. Now Conergy AG is looking forward to follow this path. After pulling the initial IPO offering some months ago it is...
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Filed in archive Technology
by tj on February 18, 2005
Reader Craig mails in his newest start-up - COMMON.net: "COMMON.net is a compelling alternative to social networking sites that create personal networks through the promotion of virtual chain...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on February 18, 2005
Well I'm a bit surprised good old NYT has won the bidding for about.com: "The New York Times Company announced today that it has reached an agreement to acquire About, Inc., a leading online...
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Filed in archive Technology
by tj on February 15, 2005
Looking for DEMO coverage? Look no further Jeff has a superb coverage with insights from a VC perspective: Demo Day One ReflectionsI'm not sure what my favorite is: - Xfire looks great but I have...
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Filed in archive Technology
by tj on February 15, 2005
Siliconbeat highlights the ongoing investments in this area: "Today, BA Venture Partners, of Foster City, announced that $150 million of its new $400 million venture fund will be devoted to the...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on February 15, 2005
AzoogleAds closes an undisclosed amount - paid for performance advertiser really seem to become investors darlings: "TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 14, 2005--AzoogleAds, a leader in...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on February 15, 2005
Nice Series B for SugarCRM: "SugarCRM Inc. today announced that it has secured $5.75 million in Series B funding for ongoing development of its open source customer relationship management (CRM)...
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Filed in archive Technology
by tj on February 09, 2005
Ross has yet another good transscript from the Palo Alto Media Center Seminar. Dan Gillmor on the future of media: "On industry transition: "Worried about the unraveling business model of...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on February 09, 2005
SiliconBeat hints me to a Wavemarket that just raised 9.4 million from Draper Fisher Jurvetson and BlueRun Ventures. "(1) Crunkie --- a location-aware mobile social network that allows friends to...
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Filed in archive Technology
by tj on February 09, 2005
SugarCRM is a wonderful piece of software. Well not so much different than any other CRM system but pretty good and open-source. How does SugarCRM as a company thrive on it, well it has a) essentially...
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Filed in archive Technology
by tj on February 09, 2005
Ok Bloglines and Askjeeves have settled for US$ 20 mio. Quite a good amount for non-existing revenues :) No news value here anymore after only 4 days... Ross Mayfield has a transcript of a speech from...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on February 09, 2005
Mike reports on bidding war for about.com: "It appears that Primedia is looking to sell About.com. Primedia, of course, seriously overpaid for About.com a few years back and then did very little...
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Filed in archive Technology
by tj on February 07, 2005
Ok I admit I was hit in the cold with Google and Blinkx but this article educates and additionally gives some scoop to potential busines models: "There are three models for indexing and...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on February 07, 2005
Jeff comments on the big rounds of the day: "Webroot raised $108 million in first round financing, yeah that's right, 1 0 8 million. That's a hell of a lot of bank that I assume will be...
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