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by tj on May 01, 2008
So finally a Web 2.0 startup we really need! Bizak.com is providing a valuation tool for entrepreneurs and investors. Simply input your visitors per month and earnings/ costs and teh site compute a...
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by tj on January 22, 2008
I just came back from two hectic weeks in Europe. A lot of good news - kinkaa relaunched its interface and raised it's first round of 600k EUR from HTGF. HTGF invested 500k+ in loans and equity...
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by tj on January 22, 2008
I got to know Ragnar several years ago and like his unstoppable entrepreneurial spirit and enthusiasm from day one. In 2005 Ragnar and Petra decided to develop software for smart phones and use...
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by tj on January 03, 2008
Steve at Partnerup has done the effort to write down COMPLETE list of major M&A deals in the media, internet, tech and gaming industry. Quite a feat - many interesting deals there I had not seen....
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by tj on December 21, 2007
Surprising move by the two largest travel meta-search engines - they become one! Ken Schachter at Redherring comments: Travel search engine Kayak.com has pulled down $196 million in one of the largest...
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by tj on December 03, 2007
SixApart cashes in on one of its assets: The nearly three-year marriage is dissolving with Six Apart's sale of LiveJournal to Russia-based SUP a deal expected to be announced Monday. The...
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by tj on September 11, 2007
Michael Baum, CEO of Splunk takes the time to note down his impressions on Splunks impressive series C in his own blog: A few months ago I started working on a next round of funding for our company,...
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by tj on July 12, 2007
Cellity - the new startup of two of the investors (Sarik Weber, Nils Weitemeyer) in Creative Weblogging and kinkaa have raised fresh funds on their own as Alarm::Clock Europe reports. Mangrove...
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by tj on July 12, 2007
Tonado Insider reports about a new bottom-up approach in music downloading - Jamendo - not too far away from last.fm: Today, investment bank Bryan, Garnier & Co issued a press release announcing...
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by tj on July 11, 2007
I found this classic piece today at Cnet: Shares of Healtheon soared more than 20 percent today as the company confirmed a long-anticipated merger with privately held WebMD and vowed to use an...
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by tj on July 11, 2007
Not long ago I was stunned all the time seemingly ease that Amp'd raising round after round. Now it turns out even the gigantic cash infusions are already spent: Los Angeles-based Amp'd, which...
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by tj on July 06, 2007
was reaching my inbox lately - the latest deal data for July 20th 2007 (remember today is July 6th). Certainly a typo was just the source of this but nevertheless there were a couple of very...
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by tj on June 15, 2007
The Times has an interview/ editorial about Stefan Glaenzer, investor and until the CBS deal, chairman of last.fm. Having German roots helped him to win confidence, and Mr Glaenzer became chairman of...
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by tj on May 30, 2007
last.fm the recently much hyped social radio/ music community has found a buyer who apparently draws many comparison between myspace and last.fm - CBS. LONDON/ NEW YORK (Reuters) - CBS Corp. said on...
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by tj on May 09, 2007
Jajah has secured a sizeable strategic partner in it's quest to conquer global telephony markets - Intel. Extremetech about the investment: Intel said Wednesday that it has invested $15 million...
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by tj on May 08, 2007
That was quick - from 'under the radar' to a rumored acquisition by one of the most active buyer of media assets. Photobucket apparently is closing in on a $250 million exit While hardly...
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by tj on April 24, 2007
YouSendIt is one of the companies I use from time to time to send bigger files with minimum hassle. While the emails you get after registration are a bit annoying it works and is a great service....
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by tj on March 30, 2007
If you ever wondered why consumer startups raise extraordinary amounts of money again for rather simple looking services - check out Peter Rip's blog: Imagine you have a low-burn consumer internet...
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by tj on March 24, 2007
Certainly underlining my post about the advanced recovery of Venture Capital in Europe are the two later stage rounds for Zopa and Spotzer: Spotzer hurries to get backing from media heavyweights: In...
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by tj on January 18, 2007
PE Week Wire reports about a row of interesting findings today - several rounds B and C confirming the sometimes bold bets VCs made in the category leaders some months and years ago: Brightcove the...
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by tj on January 07, 2007
StudiVZ the most successful German Facebook clone has sold itself to the mother company of venture investor Holtzbrinck Networxs. StudiVZ has around 1 Million users (as far as I know active and...
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by tj on January 03, 2007
Ok this is not very new (12/11/06) but an interesting one - Amazon joins the existing investors in Wikia and gives the startup way more room to play: Wikia, Inc., the leading wiki site for...
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