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| Jan 13, 2012 | ExoPC Shows off their EXODesk at CES 2012 | ExoPC are at CES 2012 showing off their mouth watering 1920×1080 32-inch 10 point touchscreen monitor / desk. This currently supports PCs but Mac support is being worked on. Expected shipping date is currently slotted in as being at the end... |
| Oct 11, 2011 | AOL Wants To Be The AP For Online Video; Offers “Editors Room” For Video Embeds | The problem with online video is that producing the high-quality stuff at scale is expensive and difficult. But what if there was a place online that licensed decent videos and made it available to other sites? That is the idea behind Edito... |
| Oct 10, 2011 | Grokking #OccupyWallSt | As the Occupy Wall Street protest movement spreads across the country, it is becoming harder to ignore. The daily protests, which began on Wall Street in New York City, have popped up as far afield as Boston, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, ... |
| Apr 27, 2011 | The 5min Story in 5 Minutes, As Told By Spark Capital’s Alex Finkelstein | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Got five minutes? Here’s an eye-opening example of how markets are analyzed, how VC deals are won, how startups are built—and a little bit about what might have been.
New York... |
| Apr 5, 2011 | Shpigler The Shark’s Advice To Zuckerberg – Walk Like A Man, Get A Nice Shirt | “Shpigler the Shark” is a Tel Aviv-based advisor to startups. Whether fictional or real, this guy is funny. He’s already given his advice to Yahoo back when it might even have been listening. Today at Techonomy, he debuted his latest missiv... |
| Apr 5, 2011 | Shpigler The Shark’s advice to Mark Zuckerberg – Walk like a man, get a nice shirt | “Shpigler the Shark” is a Tel Aviv-based advisor to startups. Whether fictional or real, this guy is funny. He’s already given his advice to Yahoo back when it might even have been listening. Today at Techonomy, he debuted his latest missiv... |
| Oct 22, 2010 | 5min teams up with Frontier Communications | The partnership will bring 5min's video catalog to Frontier's website, myfitv.com
5min Media is partnering with yet another media company as it continues to expand its reach across the Web. Frontier Communications announced Friday that it i... |
| Sep 28, 2010 | AOL buys 5min Media for rumored $65M | AOL continues to push on in its efforts to enliven its original content offerings
AOL is not stopping to take a break as it plows on with its beefed-up content strategy. The latest addition: 5min Media. AOL announced Tuesday morning that it... |
| Sep 28, 2010 | Confirmed: AOL Buys Video Syndication Company 5min (For $65 Million) | AOL is buying video syndication network 5min Media, reports AllThingsD. According to Israeli news outlet YNews, this is indeed a done deal, and the price is between $50 and $65 million.
It isn’t exactly what you’d call a stellar exit for 5m... |
| Sep 28, 2010 | AOL snaps up Brizzly creator Thing Labs, web video company 5min | Acquiring TechCrunch was certainly AOL’s biggest announcement today, but the company didn’t stop there: This afternoon, news spread that AOL has also purchased Thing Labs — creator of the Brizzly social media reader — for an undisclosed amo... |
| Sep 16, 2010 | 5min Brings 200K How-To Videos To Dailymotion | 5min has struck a deal with Dailymotion to bring 200,000 how-to videos about sports, fashion, health, travel and more to the Paris-based video sharing site. This follows 5min’s recent deal to power Answer.com’s newly launched Video Answers.... |
| Sep 16, 2010 | 5min to provide how-to videos to Dailymotion | The partnership will bring 200,000 informational and instructional videos to viewers
The Web video space is picking up speed as new deals are being made and more networks are offering new innovative content. Dailymotion, a YouTube-esque vid... |
| Jul 28, 2010 | Exclusive: Answers.com Gets 200,000 Video Answers From 5Min | Every big publisher on the Web wants to be able to serve up ad-friendly videos, but creating them can be a pain. But there are already plenty of high-quality videos out there in every subject imaginable. With that in mind, Answers.com has q... |
| Feb 3, 2010 | 5min Rules The How-To Video Space | We recently wrote about the traction that how-to video site and producer Howcast is seeing online. But there’s another information and how-to video startup that is dominating the space: 5min. The company is a syndication platform for instru... |
| Oct 4, 2009 | Scripps Shares Food Network and HGTV with 5min | Israeli startup and instructional video platform 5min is on a roll. Since moving to the US, the company has raised $7.5 million in Series B funding from Spark and Globespan Capital Partners, and it’s just signed a content and advertising pa... |
| Sep 17, 2009 | Rouxbe takes you to cooking school — online | Editor’s note: This is part of VentureBeat’s series “Startup Spotlight.” Every week, we’ll sift through the scores of companies applying to be promoted and profile the best one. Companies can sign up here at the Entrepreneur Corner, which i... |
| Jul 23, 2009 | How-to video site 5min scores $7.5M for wider syndication | 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!
5min, a site that syndicates instructional videos... |
| Jul 23, 2009 | 5Min Collects $7.5M B Round | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
5Min, the New York, NY-based publisher of instructional and do-it-yourself videos, announced today that it has raised $7.5 million in series B venture funding. Series A invest... |
| Jul 23, 2009 | 'How To' Video Site 5min Raises An Extra $7.5 Million | Instructional video site 5min, based in NYC and Israel, has raised an additional $7.5 million in a round led by Globespan Capital Partners and joined by previous investor Spark Capital, reports Israeli business news site Globes. This brings... |
| Jul 23, 2009 | How-to video site 5min scores $7.5M for wider syndication | 5min, a site that syndicates instructional videos to a host of other web sites reaching 200 million viewers a month, has raised $7.5 million in a second round of funding.
The 5min site itself has built a library of more than 100,000 short, ... |
| Mar 31, 2009 | Destroying civilization with nanotechnology: a primer | http://www.5min.com/Embeded/103905647/
This fun little video demonstrates how to become an evil, bitter human being and take it out on the world. An interesting alternative to the Terminator-style robocalypse, and possibly worse, since you ... |
| Mar 13, 2009 | Graspr sees learning as a social process | The end game is about helping monetize knowledge-based services
In part two of this two-part interview Graspr founder and CEO Teresa Phillips discusses how Graspr differentiates itself from other How-to sites and their recent Glam Media syn... |
| Dec 2, 2008 | 5min's VideoSeed Syndicates How-To Videos To Answers.com And Others | How-to site 5min is expanding beyond its roots as a video portal and has launched a syndication network for its videos called VideoSeed, which uses semantic matching to deliver relevant clips to participating sites. The platform matches key... |
| Oct 22, 2008 | Howcast lands $2M more for how-to videos | Instructional video producer Howcast Media reeled in an additional $2 million in first-round financing from private individuals in the media industry, reports VentureWire. This bumps its total to $10 million, with some funding coming from T... |
| Aug 18, 2008 | Nicholas' new MO: Pretending to be a DJ | http://www.5min.com/Embeded/14234755/
Learn how to hack at 5min.com
By looking sufficiently urban, bedraggled, and clueless, you can essentially show up anywhere, say you’re a DJ, and get past tight security. Since our own Nicholas Deleon d... |
| Aug 13, 2008 | WonderHowTo: How-To Videos in Your Sidebar | WonderHowTo aggregates and curates a large database of instructional videos from all over the Internet. It employs a number of editors who search the web for good how-to videos and then categorize them into 36 vertical categories. Thanks to... |
| Jun 4, 2008 | MindBites Gets iPhone Friendly For How-To's On The Go | MindBites, a paid-content instructional video site that launched earlier this year, has introduced a mobile version that allows users to stream guides to their iPhones. Users that access the standard site from their iPhones will automatical... |
| May 22, 2008 | Howcast Aligns With AOL, Metacafe, Bebo, and blip.tv | Howcast, the instructional video site founded by three ex-Googlers, today announced that it has formed distribution agreements with AOL, Metacafe, Bebo, and blip.tv.
Howcast provides professionally produced instructional videos that range f... |
| Apr 22, 2008 | 5min Releases Embeddable Player That Can Handle Text, Images, and Video | Instructional video site 5min has released a new beta version of their SmartPlayer, introducing support for text, video, and images that can be merged into a single embeddable flash widget. The site considers the player to be revolutionary,... |
| Mar 14, 2008 | Get you a free beer | http://www.5min.com/Embeded/1945/
Watch more DIY videos on 5min.com
Pretty clever, those British. Always caging free drinks. |
| Feb 6, 2008 | Ex-Googlers Launch Instructional Video Site Howcast, Raise $8 Million A Round | A New York City startup called Howcast is launching today that wants to be the YouTube of instructional videos. In fact, the three founders—Jason Liebman, Daniel Blackman and Sanjay Raman—are ex-Google employees who worked on Google Video a... |
| Jan 30, 2008 | WonderHowTo, is yet another “how to” video site | updated, to include response from Chao
Stephen Chao, the former president of Fox TV and USA Networks, has launched Wonderhowto.com, yet another “how-to” video site, claiming to have an edge over its rivals — with 90,000 instructional videos... |
| Jan 17, 2008 | Folks In Europe Trying To Connect The CIA To Every Successful American Internet Company? | Earlier this week, some readers sent in the utterly ridiculous article from the Guardian in the UK working out all sorts of laughable conspiracy theories behind Facebook. It seemed rather strange that a publication like the Guardian would p... |
| Jan 12, 2008 | Fifteen Israeli Startups Visit California Next Month | In February the Israel Web Tour rolls into Silicon Valley. Ninety Israeli startups applied to join the tour, and fifteen of them were selected to attend. The tour consists of a week-long conference and cultural exchange between Silicon Vall... |
| Jan 4, 2008 | Spark Capital Puts $5 Mil into 5min | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
“How-to” is one of the hottest sub-genres in Internet video, with several startups such as Austin, TX-based Expert Village, Barcelona’s Sclipo, and Los Angeles-based Videojug ... |
| Jan 3, 2008 | How-to video site 5min lands funding, continues uphill climb in US | 5Min is one of many sites that offers “instructional” videos created by users.
The videos are supposed to teach you how to do something, such as making a barking dog out of a square piece of paper (see below).
Its clean design includes opti... |
| Nov 14, 2007 | Taboola Lands $1.5 Million, Powers Video Discovery | Search has been one of the most powerful tools on the internet, but its next of kin “discovery” is coming up fast. Many new sites are serving up recommendations alongside search to help visitors discover new content they didn’t even know th... |
| Nov 9, 2007 | Bluetooth funnies: How very Sienfeldian | http://www.5min.com/Embeded/11918/
It’s a weird day here at CG central — Pha’s laptop is breaking, Nicholas is out gallivanting, and I’m getting migraines — so here’s a cute clip from Curb Your Enthusiasm for you to enjoy while I poke my ey... |
| Nov 1, 2007 | $5 million More For 5Min, Following A Painful Angel Round | Rumor has it that Israeli video startup 5Min, which has user-uploaded “how to” videos, has raised another $5 million in cash, from Spark Capital.
We covered the startup recently – think YouTube with special features like slow motion to make... |
| Oct 23, 2007 | Videojug poaches UK Web veteran | It’s interesting that UK-based Videojug, the ‘how to’ video website, has attracted the likes of Nancy Cruickshank, the high-profile head of Hearst Digital, to become its global chief executive. Videojug founder Dan Thompson will move into t... |
| Sep 4, 2007 | Time To Learn How To Breakdance At 5Min | http://www.5min.com/Embeded/4284/Sometimes its worth taking a second look at a startup a few months after we cover their initial launch to see how things are going. We first covered Israeli startup 5min back in May. The site is a sort of Yo... |
| Jul 18, 2007 | Bubbly Summer in Silicon Valley — time to raise money | Summers usually slow in Silicon Valley, but this year doesn’t seem to be easing off much.
The investment pace is so hot it reminds some VCs of the 1998 and 1999 years. For entrepreneurs raising money, now is the time. Israeli angel Shpigler... |
| Jul 14, 2007 | How To Raise Money From VCs | The following video “How To Raise Money From VC’s” comes from 5min.com, an instructional video site we covered in May, and is currently getting a lot of attention in Israel. The video (in Hebrew with English subtitles) provides some fun adv... |
| May 14, 2007 | 5min: Life Videopedia | The semi-finals of the European focused Startup 2.0 contest were held in Madrid on the weekend, an event with 15 of the best/ most promising Web 2.0 startups out of an initial 300 nominees presenting.
5 startups were chosen as finalists wit... |
| May 14, 2007 | European Startups Coming to a Web Browser Near You | As mentioned in our post covering 5min, the semi-finals of the European focused Startup 2.0 contest were held in Madrid on the weekend.
5 startups were chosen as finalists, with the final to be held May 24 at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao... |
