| Date | Title | Description |
| 11.03.2015 | A Comprehensive List of Women Investors Who Blog | I've recently come across an interesting list that includes women investors with awesome blogs. The list was curated by Joshua Henderson, VP of Springboard, after CB Insights released its Periodic Table of VC Bloggers where only five of the... |
| 19.02.2015 | Reblog: VC Cliché of the Week | Back in the early days of this blog I had a series called VC Cliche Of The Week. I’m not sure how long I ran it but I did eventually run out of material and phased it out. In continuation of yesterday’s good vibes and with yet another shout... |
| 04.02.2014 | A Deeper Sort Of Social | If humans are anything, it’s adaptive. Give us a tool, and we’ll figure out a use for it. That’s what happened when we mapped out our social lives to the constraints of the Internet.
After we constructed the portals to everything (all of Am... |
| 16.02.2012 | Flickr co-founder announces newest startup & newest funding | Caterina Fake (pictured), who previously co-founded photo-sharing megalith Flickr, has just taken the wraps off Pinwheel, her brand-new app.
Pinwheel is currently in private beta; Fake says it’s a way to “find and leave notes all over the w... |
| 16.02.2012 | More Details On Caterina Fake’s New Startup, Pinwheel: A Mobile Flickr For Places (Ish) | As we heard last year, Flickr and Hunch co-founder Caterina Fake was in the process of launching a new startup, with $2 million in funding from a number of high-profile investors, including True Ventures, Founder Collective, SV Angel, Keith... |
| 17.09.2011 | The Mobile Picture Wars, The Moskovitz Manifesto, And Other Big Themes From TC Disrupt SF | TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 is over. After three days of launches, pivots, interviews, and demos, I’ve finally had a chance to catch up on sleep and digest what just happened. In no particular order, here are my thematic takeaways from this yea... |
| 12.09.2011 | Foremother of Community Management Joins Ex-Flickr Founder’s Stealth Startup | In the world of online community management, Heather Champ’s work in the early days of Flickr has been the inspiration for countless practitioners who followed and who aim to optimize the social in social media around the web. Champ left Fl... |
| 05.09.2011 | Happy Appiversary, Lanyrd | Often in tech reporting, you’ll hear a lot about launches, acquisitions and failures. What you don’t hear enough about are the makers who iterate in relative silence. For all of the hyped startups of this world (Coloranyone?), there are a l... |
| 26.07.2011 | Anil Dash, Caterina Fake and Google+ Stand Up for Pseudonyms | The pseudonymity debate as bingo, by geekfeminism.org.
Google+ and Facebook are pushing users to use their real names everywhere on the web for their convenience and the convenience of the owners of the sites they’re browsing. The trend has... |
| 20.06.2011 | Flickr Co-Founder Fake Announces New Mobile Startup | Caterina Fake is one of the most interesting thinkers on the web. She co-founded social photo sharing site Flickr and turned it into one of the world’s most important websites by focusing on creating a culture of customer service and commun... |
| 20.06.2011 | Flickr and Hunch co-founder working on new startup | Caterina Fake says the second best time to build a startup is now, so she's doing something social
Caterina Fake, co-founder of Hunch and Flickr, announced Monday that she is working on a new startup, code-named 2bkco.
Two back company? Tob... |
| 20.06.2011 | Why We Often Blindside Companies | A couple of weeks ago I apologized to the CEO of AdMeld for writing about their acquisition without even contacting him to let him know beforehand or ask for a comment. He wrote back “the call would have been nice.”
I know how frustrating t... |
| 19.03.2011 | On Twitter ‘What a party!’ brings an envious ‘Enough, already!’ | @emilyolson: And … I’m eating a taco next to Danny DeVito. #sxsw
@jacobwe: Should I go to Google Party? Tired, but also hungry. Davos
Twitter users are tiring of it: the pang of envy that comes when someone they are following on the social ... |
| 18.11.2010 | Wilson Vs. Doerr. Bubble Vs. Boom. East Vs. West. Android Vs. iPhone. Facebook Vs. The Web (VIDEO) | With Web 2.0 Summit now over, looking back, in my mind, easily the best panel was the one entitled Point of Control: Finance. It featured venture capitalists John Doerr (Kleiner Perkins) and Fred Wilson (Union Square Ventures) talking with ... |
| 01.10.2010 | Boston vs. NYC vs. Silicon Valley? Forget It—The Real City of Innovation Is Everywhere | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
In William Gibson’s 1984 cyberpunk masterpiece Neuromancer, the hero Case lives in a near-future place called BAMA—the Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis, aka the Sprawl, a gian... |
| 28.08.2010 | Developing Your Business By Marketing Your API | Last week, Alex Williams posted a list in ReadWriteWeb’s Cloud Computing channel of the “!0 Common Mistakes Made by API Providers.” Alex’s post points to some of the problems that occur in both the technical and the business realms of API d... |
| 04.08.2010 | Hunch Relaunches as Internet Personalization Service | Hunch was never a social Q&A service, though many press outlets have confused it for one. The service, founded by Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake and super-hot angel investor Chris Dixon, has relaunched its home page and is now more cle... |
| 27.06.2010 | Top 5 Reasons Why Your Startup Needs an API | There is a long list of things people will tell you that you need as a startup: You need a working product. You need a business plan. You need a lawyer. You need a good coffee maker, a video game system, and beer on Fridays.
Here’s one more... |
| 09.06.2010 | A College Student and a CEO: A Profile of 21 Year Old Entrepreneur Jay Rodrigues | In April, Flickr and Hunch co-founder Caterina Fake wrote a provocatively titled blog post: “Want to be an entrepreneur? Drop out of college.” Her arguments were on my mind when I met Jay Rodrigues in early May. The 21-year-old University o... |
| 04.05.2010 | All-Star Team Backs StackOverflow to Go Beyond Programming Questions | They say raising venture capital is a young man’s game. Joel Spolsky is a very logical exception to that rule and will announce today that his question and answer site for computer programmers, StackOverflow, has raised $6 million from some... |
| 30.04.2010 | The Role of Education in Entrepreneurship | On Wednesday of this week, Flickr and Hunch co-founder Caterina Fake wrote a provocatively titled blog suggesting that wanna-be entrepreneurs should drop out of college. She based this opinion on the amount of successful companies founded b... |
| 15.03.2010 | Decision engine Hunch confirms $12M led by Khosla | Hunch, the search engine co-founded by Flickr’s Caterina Fake to help consumers make better decisions, has confirmed (via Fake’s blog) that it raised a $12 million second round of funding led by Khosla Ventures. As we suspected last week, G... |
| 15.03.2010 | Decision engine Hunch confirms $12M led by Khosla | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Hunch, the search engine co-founded by Flickr’s C... |
| 01.03.2010 | Escape from New York: Is the Valley Necessary? | In an effort to highlight some of the emerging tech centers across the world we’ve written on a number of cities for our Never Mind the Valley series. We’ve featured the funding and opportunities available in places like Washington DC, Bang... |
| 23.02.2010 | Hunch’s Caterina Fake On Fusing Ideas With Teams | In our recent discussions of branding for startups and entrepreneurs, we’ve mentioned that marketing and branding is always harder to do when what you’re trying to sell isn’t a quality product. Successful startup products tend to fit into a... |
| 04.01.2010 | Hunch.com checks out healthy at six months | Hunch.com, introduced to us in a early version last March, has demonstrated a growing user base and ever-better utility to go along with its fun-to-use design work.
For those not in the know, Hunch is a site designed to take some of the “co... |
| 04.01.2010 | Hunch.com checks out healthy at six months | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Hunch.com, introduced to us in a early version la... |
| 18.11.2009 | Good Question! The Eight Best Questions We Got While Raising Venture Capital | Editor’s note: Guest writer Glenn Kelman is the CEO of Redfin, an online real estate broker that seeks to give consumers the information and tools once limited to real estate agents. Previously, he was a co-founder of Plumtree Software, whi... |
| 31.08.2009 | Is it time for the venture capital "two-and-twenty" to end? | Private equity is starting to get the hint. Is it time for venture capital to do the same?
For more than a generation, “two-and-twenty” has been a rule of thumb for management fees in the venture capital industry. It means fund managers get... |
| 31.08.2009 | Is it time for the venture capital "two-and-twenty" to end? | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Private equity is starting to get the hint. Is it... |
| 15.06.2009 | Flickr cofounder launches advice service, Hunch | Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake‘s newest start-up, Hunch, opens to the public today. It’s an advice service that helps you make decisions. It offers up a database of questions you can choose to ask, such as, say “Where should I eat around S... |
| 17.04.2009 | People Who Switch To Macs Like To Dance, And Other Strange Hunches | it’s been only three weeks since the launch of Q&A site Hunch, but already it’s amassed answers to 4.3 million questions. By taking visitors through a series of questions to get to know them better, Hunch can begin to make guesses about... |
| 01.04.2009 | What should I eat for lunch? I'll ask Hunch | Flickr Co-Founder launches Hunch, a decision-making search engine
What should I eat for lunch - is a thought I ponder upon early in the morning when I hop on Bart, until the moment when I succumb to the $5 dollar Foot Long at Subway, starvi... |
| 31.03.2009 | People Tend To Follow The Advice Of Experts Over Their Own Common Sense | Just as yet another new startup is launching, designed to give individuals “expert” decision making advice, reader ChurchHatesTucker points us to a new study that notes that people all too often stop thinking after being given “expert” advi... |
| 16.03.2009 | Stealthy decision engine Hunch.com raises $2M | Hunch.com, the secretive self-dubbed “online decision engine,” announced that it brought in $2 million in a first round of funding — even though very little information is available about it anywhere on the web. For now, its web site is sim... |
| 30.07.2008 | Flickr Co-Founder Caterina Fake Joins New Startup, Hunch | Caterina Fake, who co-founded Flickr along with her husband Stewart Butterfield in 2004, has announced her plans to join a fledgling new startup called Hunch. Flickr is one of the web’s most popular photo-sharing sites, and was acquired by ... |
| 24.05.2007 | Vendor Relationship Management | Last week, I attended the Internet Identity Workshop. Doc Searls, one of the organizers of the conference, ran multiple sessions on a concept he has been developing with others in his role as a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center, called Ven... |
| 11.05.2007 | TechCrunch20 Conference: Caterina Fake, MC Hammer & Rajeev Motwani Join Expert Panel | I’m excited to announce the next three experts for the TechCrunch20 Conference in San Francisco this September. Caterina Fake, MC Hammer and Rajeev Motwani join the previously announced experts. The full Panel of Experts is here, and we wil... |
| 14.03.2007 | Salim Ismail To Head Yahoo Brickhouse | Yahoo Brickhouse, a new semi-autonomous business unit to foster new product development, is yet to be formally launched. They’ve been busy, though. Yahoo Pipes, which launched on February 7, is a Brickhouse project.
Tomorrow they’ll announc... |
| 23.02.2007 | MyBlogLog Bans Blogger; Backlash Begins | Update (Arrington): MyBlogLog has responded, apologized and reinstated Shoemoney. Caterina Fake of Yahoo (MyBlogLog’s parent company) has written her thoughts as well. It’s time to move on – and Shoemoney should accept this apology.
Yahoo!’... |
| 17.08.2006 | Business Development 2.0 | IMGP0747
Originally uploaded by Andrew & Nicole.
It used to be that web companies needed to hire one or more smart networkers and set them loose on all the other web companies in search of deals that bring traffic, users, additional fun... |
| 17.08.2006 | Business Development 2.0 | It used to be that web companies needed to hire one or more smart networkers and set them loose on all the other web companies in search of deals that bring traffic, users, additional functionality, revenue, and a host of other good things.... |
| 26.06.2006 | Interview with Yahoo’s Bradley Horowitz and Caterina Fake | At the Supernova conference last week I had the pleasure of interviewing two of
Yahoo’s rising stars, VP of Product Strategy Bradley Horowitz and leader of the
Technology Development Group Caterina Fake (one of the co-founders of Flickr). T... |
| 15.06.2006 | Yahoo Hack Day Today | Yahoo has had a a couple of regional “Hack Days”, which are day long events where engineers stop everything they are doing and just build stuff that they think is cool. The idea was first popularized by Jot last year, and a number of compan... |
| 29.03.2006 | VC Cliché of the Week | The father of this weekly series, the guy who taught me at least half of the cliches I know, is a guy named Bliss McCrum. He and his partner Milt Pappas taught me the venture capital business from 1986 to 1996 when I worked with them at the... |
| 25.03.2006 | stay-out-of-the-water-there's-sharks feeling circa 1998 | What a great line from Caterina who says think twice before starting a company right now.
I think much of what she says is true but the devil is always in the details. If you have a truly great idea, have incredible passion for it, and you’... |
| - | Congrats to Maya’s Mom | Maya’s Mom, a startup Toni Schneider was introduced to by Caterina Fake and that True Ventures invested in, has gotten acquired by Babycenter.com (who are owned by Johnson & Johnson). A big congrats to Ann Crady and the great team at Ma... |
| - | Welcoming Hatch Baby | One of the first companies True ever invested in was Maya’s Mom, a social network for new parents co-founded by Ann Crady. Ann and I overlapped at Yahoo!, and were introduced by Caterina Fake, Co-Founder of Flickr and True portfolio company... |
