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| Jan 25, 2023 | Web 3.0 — свободный интернет или технология, которая все испортит? | Нынешний интернет уже не так свободен, как изначально он задумывался. В нем можно сказать и опубликовать что угодно, но сетью управляют корпорации. Концепция Web 3.0 призвана решить проблему централизации, сделать жизнь пользователей, бизне... |
| Jun 15, 2022 | Joining the fold: This ‘Uber for laundry’ startup just raised cash from an early Uber investor | (Loopie Laundry Photo)
In a 2019 Startup Spotlight with GeekWire, Loopie Laundry founder and CEO John Vincent Lee described his new peer-to-peer clothes washing startup as “Uber for laundry.” That description seems to have caught the attent... |
| Feb 25, 2022 | Что такое Web 3.0, и почему он всем стал нужен | Последние несколько лет все чаще высказывается мнение о том, что нынешняя модель Интернета морально устарела и требует пересмотра: корпорации жадно собирают данные пользователей, устраивают цензуру и знают о юзерах больше, чем их ближайшие ... |
| Feb 2, 2022 | Web 3.0: от зари интернета до метавселенных | Содержание:
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| Oct 13, 2021 | These are the top 53 voices in Silicon Valley teaching you everything you need to know about how to invest in VC and startups | All-in podcast/youtube This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
Unlike other types of institutional investors, venture capitalists love to share business know-how.
Some have develo... |
| Aug 13, 2020 | Root AI raises $7.2m from AgFunder, Calacanis to deploy its ‘cross-crop robot’ workforce | Covid-19’s onset in the US coincided with one of the most important seasons on specialty crop farms across the country: harvest. As labor shortages and uncertainties surrounding the H2A visa program — and other pandemic-related factors — hi... |
| Mar 24, 2020 | Lessons From 2008: How The Downturn Impacted Funding Two To Four Years Out | 124 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
As we look at the current economic situation and try to navigate what’s ahead, an analysis of the 2008 downturn and how that impacted funding proves helpful. In an effort to help our readers put wh... |
| Mar 24, 2020 | Lessons From 2008: How The Downturn Impacted Funding Two To Four Years Out | 126 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
As we look at the current economic situation and try to navigate what’s ahead, an analysis of the 2008 downturn and how that impacted funding proves helpful. In an effort to help our readers put wh... |
| Jan 13, 2020 | 2020: the year of robo-baristas at SFO, SJC (and other airports too?) | Last spring in San Francisco, I went on a robo-caffeinated trip to Cafe X Technologies, a runner-up in AgFunder’s 2019 AgriFood-Tech Innovation Awards.
Shortly after meeting Cafe X chief operating officer Cynthia Yeung, I was introduced to ... |
| May 1, 2019 | Tech.eu Podcast #116: SoftBank goes shopping in Germany; the state of car sharing in Europe; how ICO white papers are written; is it time to boycott Saudi money; and more | Tech.eu Podcast hosted by Natalie Novick and Andrii Degeler is a show in which we discuss some of the most interesting stories from the European technology scene and interview leading entrepreneurs and investors from across the region.
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| Apr 29, 2019 | At Cafe X, Robot Baristas are Grinding Down the Competition | Who makes the best coffee in the world these days? One place to find out is the World Barista Championships, where in Boston this April, South Korea’s Jooyeon Jeon of Momos Coffee triumphed over her lightly bearded male rivals in the final.... |
| Dec 22, 2018 | Кейсы как Web 3.0 | Web 3.0 — концепция развития интернет-технологий, сформулированная Джейсоном Калаканисом (http://calacanis.com/2007/10/03/web-3-0-the-official-definition/) в далёком 2007 году. По крайней мере в русскоязычной википедии висит статья именно п... |
| May 2, 2018 | This Company Will Give You $100,000 to Build a Better, Alternative Facebook | It’s been a rough few months for Facebook. The social media giant’s woes arguably began after the most recent election as it battled accusations of harboring Russian trolls and spreading fake news. Then earlier this year, a Cambridge Analyt... |
| Jan 31, 2018 | I Don't Hate Cryptocurrency, But... | Jason Calacanis is an angel investor in 150 startups including Uber, robinhood, Abra, thumbtack, Wealthfront and Talla. He's also the author of ANGEL.
"If you are right, that 90 percent of crypto projects are scams or incompetent, what... |
| Jun 4, 2017 | How People Use Apple AirPods – Survey Results and Personal Review | How People Use Apple AirPods – Survey Results and Personal Review
Bret Kinsella on June 4, 2017 at 2:01 pm
Apple is widely expected to announced a competing product to Amazon Echo and Google Home tomorrow at WWDC. Smart speakers are all abo... |
| Nov 17, 2016 | Sprinklr acquires Little Bird, a tool for finding experts on anything via Twitter | New York marketing tech firm Sprinklr has acquired Portland-based Little Bird, according to Sprinklr founder and CEO Ragy Thomas.
Little Bird was founded in 2011 to help researchers quickly find the top experts and influencers on any given ... |
| Oct 21, 2016 | 2017 will be the year of interactive email | Three years ago I started a mobile app business. At that time, apps were a novelty and smartphone owners tried out new apps on a regular basis.
Today, the market is oversaturated with new apps, and to make things worse, many smartphone user... |
| Oct 21, 2016 | 2017 will be the year of interactive email | 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!
Three years ago I started a mobile app business. ... |
| Aug 19, 2016 | 4 takeaways from the bankruptcy sale of Gawker Media | 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!
Univision is acquiring Gawker Media for $135 mill... |
| Aug 19, 2016 | 4 takeaways from the bankruptcy sale of Gawker Media | Univision is acquiring Gawker Media for $135 million, news reports confirmed this week, beating out Ziff Davis in an auction for the media company’s assets.
Nick Denton founded Gawker in 2002, after selling an early news aggregation site he... |
| Aug 15, 2016 | Jason Calacanis has a fix for Twitter's harassment problem | He suggests rewarding accounts for being verified, and blocking Tweets from accounts that aren't
One of the reasons, in my opinion, that Twitter has had problems with user growth is that people don't feel safe on the platform. This issue ha... |
| Jun 13, 2016 | 5 Rules for Building a Great Relationship With an Angel Investor | The Entrepreneur Insiders network is an online community where the most thoughtful and influential people in America’s startup scene contribute answers to timely questions about entrepreneurship and careers. Today’s answer to the question “... |
| Dec 7, 2015 | Daily funding roundup - December 7, 2015 | FAASOS raised $30M; Shoes of Prey landed $15.5M; Gousto secured $13.6M funding
Zenatix Solutions, an internet-of-things (IoT) driven energy-data analytics startup has raised an undisclosed amount of follow-on funding led by seed focused fun... |
| Oct 18, 2015 | Machine learning enters the SEO world | For years, the search engine optimization industry has been dominated by Google’s algorithm update. Each time marketers would hear a term like Panda, Pigeon or “Mobilegeddon“, they knew exactly what it meant: a thorough audit of their curre... |
| Oct 18, 2015 | Machine learning enters the SEO world | 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!
For years, the search engine optimization industr... |
| Sep 26, 2015 | I Like To Block It Block It | Jon Evans Contributor
Jon Evans is the CTO of the engineering consultancy HappyFunCorp; the award-winning author of six novels, one graphic novel, and a book of travel writing; and TechCrunch's weekend columnist since 2010.
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| Aug 15, 2015 | Apply for IBM’s SmartCamp Pitch Competition in Austin | IBM will be kicking off its annual startup pitch competition called SmartCamp next month. |
| Jul 20, 2015 | Five Ways Your Kids Can Acquire Coding Superpowers Over The Holidays | Photo Credit: Simon Laroche_8 via Compfight cc
Coding is one of the most important skills to have in the world right now, as it is the language that drives the digital universe. In the next twenty years, even jobs without a direct link to c... |
| Apr 23, 2015 | Cheaper bandwidth or bust: How Google saved YouTube | reader comments 104 with 76 posters participating
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| Feb 12, 2015 | Facebook is blowing it with its ‘real name’ policy | 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!
I’m not sure which Facebook to believe: the Faceb... |
| Feb 12, 2015 | Facebook is blowing it with its ‘real name’ policy | I’m not sure which Facebook to believe: the Facebook of October, the Facebook of December, or the Facebook of now.
In October 2014, Facebook issued a very clear statement saying that it’s never been the company’s policy to require legal nam... |
| Jan 11, 2015 | Rumors Swirl That Adam Bain Will Be The Next Twitter CEO, But Costolo’s Not Going Anywhere Yet | Disclosure: I own less than 500 shares each of Twitter, Yahoo, and Aol stock.
The new year always brings new speculative tech predictions. Some of the most common predictions this year are that neither Dick Costolo and Marissa Mayer will ma... |
| Jul 28, 2014 | Birdi raises $700K to begin manufacturing a 'smart' smoke alarm | 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!
CNRY, Inc. announced today that it has raised $70... |
| Jul 28, 2014 | Birdi raises $700K to begin manufacturing a 'smart' smoke alarm | CNRY, Inc. announced today that it has raised $700,000 in new seed funding. The company, better known as Birdi, is dedicated to building a “better” smoke alarm. This alarm will be connected to mobile devices via Wi-Fi to give users updates ... |
| Dec 14, 2012 | Jason Calacanis Says He Will Shut Down Podcast Network ThisWeekIn.com, This Week In Startups Will Continue | Jason Calacanis has announced via blog post that he’s planning to wind down his podcast network ThisWeekIn.com and return the remaining funds to investors.
Two of the shows, This Week In Startups (which Calacanis hosts) and Kevin Pollak’s C... |
| Apr 7, 2012 | Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Convertible Note Seed Financings (But Were Afraid To Ask) | Editor’s note: Scott Edward Walker is the founder and CEO of Walker Corporate Law Group, a boutique corporate law firm specializing in the representation of entrepreneurs. Check out his blog or follow him on Twitter as @ScottEdWalker.
We ar... |
| Apr 6, 2012 | Advanced content marketing strategies to take your brand to the next level | You can’t be a marketing professional and NOT create content.
In fact, the Content Marketing Institution said so when it published this interesting statistic: “93 percent of marketing professionals create, or plan to create content marketin... |
| Nov 8, 2011 | Launchpad LA Receives VC Funding: $50,000 Per Startup | Launchpad LA today announces it will accept applications for its third class of Los Angeles-based tech startups. There are significant VC commitments (listed below) – every entering company will get $50,000 in funding, mentorship from top V... |
| Sep 9, 2011 | On Twitter, Mike Arrington Still Works At TechCrunch. Your Move, Arianna | Simpler times
Mike Arrington has reportedly been fired from AOL, which currently owns TechCrunch, the blog he founded. That was the response to his demand, on TechCrunch, that AOL grant the site complete editorial independence or sell it ba... |
| May 6, 2011 | Howard Lubert on the Keiretsu Forum and the “ridiculous deals” in Philadelphia | Howard Lubert | Facebook
When Technically Philly asks Howard Lubert about his background, he begins by apologizing.
“I’m old,” he says before rattling off a long resume that reads like a rough timeline of the Philadelphia technology industr... |
| Apr 23, 2011 | Weekly Wrap-up: iPhone Location Tracking, Optimize Your Brand’s Facebook Page, Facts Should Be Free and More… | Big news from the O’Reilly Where 2.0 conference this week. Data scientists Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden (who is also a ReadWriteWeb contributor) revealed that iPhones running iOS4 are keeping an ongoing record of your location in an unenc... |
| Apr 16, 2011 | Weekly Wrap-up: The Year the Check-in Died, Twitter Drops Ruby for Java, The Future of the Camera and More… | One of our top posts this week was Richard MacManus’ look at the future of the camera. We all know how smartphones integrated cameras. “Could we be about to see the inverse – cameras integrating smartphone technology?” he asked. The story i... |
| Apr 1, 2011 | April Fools 2011: The Big List | Yes, folks, that’s right. That special, special time of year is upon us. It’s April Fools 2011! We take April Fools pretty seriously around here, so we’ll be constantly updating this post with the best April Fools jokes and pranks the World... |
| Mar 8, 2011 | Meltwater Foundation Startup Nandimobile Named “Best Business” at LAUNCH Conference | Accra – March 8, 2011 – Nandimobile Ltd, a technology startup co-founded by three graduates of the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST), was granted the “Best Business” award at the LAUNCH Conference in San Francisco, where... |
| Mar 5, 2011 | Gotham Gal On Startups | The Goodwin Proctor "Founders Toolbox" blog posted an interview with the Gotham Gal yesterday. It's very good. So I'm cross posting it here.
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Name, Age, Current Occupation: Joanne Wilson, 49, Blogger, Angel Investor, Mentor... |
| Mar 1, 2011 | What the AngelList Debate Means for the Future of Startup Investing | Over the weekend there has been some controversy surrounding AngelList, the network that connects startup entrepreneurs and investors. Before AngelList, investment dealflow was private and networks revolved around a few connected angels and... |
| Feb 26, 2011 | What’s The Real Deal With AngelList? | Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Mark Suster (@msuster), a 2x entrepreneur, now VC at GRP Partners. Read more about Suster at Bothsidesofthetable
There’s lots of discussion out there about a new and much-loved service called AngelList... |
| Nov 30, 2010 | Apple Wins Multiple Touch & MacBook Tablet Patents
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Search | Granted Patent: API for Scrolling Operations (Includes Convertible MacBook Tablet Examples)
Apple has won a patent relating to an API for scrolling operations on a touchscreen which is described in Apple's patent abstract below. Yet the big... |
| Nov 3, 2010 | At My Wit's End: Jason Calacanis Threatens To Sue Us | Jason Calacanis, our former partner on our TechCrunch50 events, is threatening to sue us. His demand letter and draft complaint are embedded below. In a nutshell, he wants part of the proceeds from our sale to AOL.
Calacanis has spent most ... |
| Oct 25, 2010 | 3 ways to raise seed capital if you don’t know any investors | A reader asks: My co-founder and I recently launched a new web venture, and we’re running out of money. We are trying to raise about $250K, but we don’t have any friends or family who can afford to invest – and we don’t know any angel inves... |
| Oct 7, 2010 | Conspiracies, Privacy, Spam And NAMBLA: Facebook Groups Are Fun! | I felt left out. Everyone’s complaining about all this spam from the new Facebook Groups, but I don’t have a single email. Then I checked my Gmail spam filter, and there they were, dozens of ’em. Thanks Google!
But that doesn’t mean I misse... |
| Oct 7, 2010 | Facebook Groups Don't Have A Privacy Problem, But Someone Needs To Can The Spam | This morning there has a rash of reports claiming that Facebook Groups may be somehow violating your privacy, possibly heralding the latest in Facebook’s long string of privacy blunders. The uproar, if you can even call it that, was sparked... |
| Oct 7, 2010 | Man Who Somehow Failed To Delete Facebook Account Complains About New Feature | Wait a second. It seems that everyone is missing one key element of the latest faux-controversy about Facebook. What is Jason Calacanis doing back on Facebook?
Calacanis kicked off the latest bitching session today by posting an email he se... |
| Oct 7, 2010 | Facebook Groups demonstrate the downside of “social design” | Facebook rolled out a number of new features yesterday — and today the inevitable backlash followed.
The complaints focused on Facebook Groups, a feature allowing users to create a private space to communicate with friends, family, or co-wo... |
| Aug 23, 2010 | The Mother Lode: Welcome to the iMac Touch
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While touch-based input is well suited to many applications, conventional styles of input, such as a mouse/keyboard input may be preferred in other applications. Therefore it may be desirable for some devices ... |
| Aug 2, 2010 | Killer App for Gmail Gets Backing from Calacanis and Others | If you use Gmail for business and haven’t tried out browser plug-in Rapportive, your work life online is not yet complete. The small company behind the must-have software said this weekend that it has raised $1 million from a group of All S... |
| Jun 5, 2010 | Facebook, Steve Jobs, And Dog Day Afternoon | In his most recent email blast-turned-blog post, Jason Calacanis has chosen a familiar subject: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The post is more focused than his previous one about Zuckerberg, but in some ways, it’s more outrageous as well. I... |
| Jun 4, 2010 | The Mythical Sheryl Sandberg Wink And Smile (Starring Al Pacino) | In an an email newsletter yesterday Jason Calacanis, bizarrely referring to himself as Serpico (played by Al Pacino in the 1973 movie) talks about an interaction he had with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the Wall Street Journal’s D Confer... |
| May 20, 2010 | Jason Calacanis lets his JasonNation Army hit reply all – Intentional? [Updated] | In a typical Jason Calacanis move today, the West coast based entrepreneur will delete his Facebook page live on the Internet. He has 22,969 fans. You’ll be able to watch it here. Jason announced this move today on his JasonNation newslette... |
| May 13, 2010 | Facebook And Twitter Are On A Collision Course. And We're In The Middle. | In Jim Sheridan’s 2009 film Brothers, Jake Gyllenhaal and Tobey Maguire play two siblings that are opposites. Maguire’s Sam is an Army captain, a straight-laced hard worker, and a family man. Gyllenhaal’s Tommy is a fresh-out-of-jail convic... |
| May 13, 2010 | Facebook's Biggest Problem: Mark Zuckerberg Is a Kidiot | As Facebook prepares for its all-hands meeting about privacy and the swamp of controversy in which the company wades, CEO Mark Zuckerberg is on the eve of his 26th birthday. And that's a major reason for all the turmoil the company has seen... |
| Apr 27, 2010 | Angel-Backed Companies More Likely to Succeed, Says Harvard Study | A new study published by professors at the Harvard Business School shows that angel-backed companies are more likely to succeed and show more growth than those funded by venture firms alone. Researched and written by William Kerr and Josh L... |
| Apr 27, 2010 | Jason Calacanis' Six Handy Tips On How To Resign | One thing you’ve got to hand to Jason Calacanis, he always tries to turn lemons into lemonade. A few days ago a private email between him and one of his employees was published where he accepted a resignation less than gracefully. His respo... |
| Apr 12, 2010 | Idealab founder Bill Gross: Why I’m running a Twitter startup | In early 2009, blog millionaire Jason Calacanis half-jokingly offered Twitter $250,000 to place his company’s Mahalo Answers on the company’s Suggested User List, a staff-selected group of favorite tweeters. Anyone who made it onto the SUL ... |
| Feb 25, 2010 | How Does Compete Get Its Web Traffic Data? At Least One Way Sounds Very Sketchy. | A month ago, Jason Calacanis went on a rant about why everyone should boycott comScore. He felt they were using sketchy tactics to bully people into their pay-to-play model for measuring web analytics. He also noted that their free competit... |
| Feb 9, 2010 | After Success in Boulder, Open Angel Forum Marches Onward to San Francisco and New York | The talk of the venture capital and entrepreneurial towns these days is the Open Angel Forum which after its second event in Boulder, Colorado is now announcing two more events in New York and San Francisco. Brainchild of Jason Calacanis, t... |
| Jan 25, 2010 | Ground Truth debuts highly accurate way to measure traffic on mobile sites | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
A new mobile measurement firm, Ground Truth, today announced it has launched the first such service to use census-based measures of act... |
| Jan 25, 2010 | Ground Truth debuts highly accurate way to measure traffic on mobile sites | A new mobile measurement firm, Ground Truth, today announced it has launched the first such service to use census-based measures of actual Mobile Internet usage. The data, which covers millions of mobile subscribers in the United States, wi... |
| Jan 25, 2010 | ComScore’s online traffic jam | Depending who you ask, comScore is the best source of online traffic data or the Internet’s “biggest bully.”
Over the weekend Jason Calacanis, a high-profile blogger and Internet entrepreneur, accused comScore of running an “extortion ring”... |
| Jan 24, 2010 | Jason Calacanis Punches Comscore In The Face. Comscore Punches Back. Fred Wilson Drags Us Into It. $SCOR | Jason Calacanis, our partner over the years on the TechCrunch50 conference, wrote quite a rant yesterday about analytics company Comscore. His argument: that Comscore has vastly undercounted traffic and visitors over the years, and is now f... |
| Jan 16, 2010 | Calacanis Announces 2nd Open Angel Forum Event In Boulder | Hot on the heels of the inaugural Open Angel Forum in Los Angeles this Thursday, event organizer and notable investor Jason Calacanis has announced a second event will be held in Boulder next month. Announcing the event on his weekly live v... |
| Jan 4, 2010 | Jason Calacanis' Top Tech Products (And A Political Rant) | Jason Calacanis lists his own favorite tech products after reading ours. His list, which was sent out to his mailing list earlier today, is below. Along with one heck of a political rant about the middle east and energy policy, which we hav... |
| Dec 15, 2009 | Facebook’s Privacy Move Violates Contract With Users | Your name, profile picture, gender, current city, networks, Friends List, and all the pages you subscribe to are now publicly available information on Facebook. This means everyone on the web can see it; it is searchable.
This represents ju... |
| Nov 30, 2009 | Revolutionary Angels Defends Business Plan Competition Amidst Widespread Criticism | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
A post last week on the New York Times’ “You’re the Boss” small business blog examined the phenomenon of business plan competitions with high entry fees, with the focus largel... |
| Nov 27, 2009 | Conferendum lets anybody teach online and get paid | [Germany] How would you like to make money from your expert knowledge? E-Learning is a $53 billion world market that requires lots of technology and therefore is mostly tapped by universities and bigger corporations. But now a small startup... |
| Nov 19, 2009 | Would Top Sites Really Opt-Out Of Google Based On A Microsoft Bribe? | Every so often, internet pontificators try to come up with ways to “kill Google.” It’s a silly game, but in an oddly timed move, three people (who have all put forth “how to kill Google” ideas in the past) all suddenly published similar ide... |
| Nov 15, 2009 | Twitter Definitely Ditching “Suggested Users List” | Last month, Twitter CEO and co-founder Evan Williams stated that he “desperately” wanted to retire the company’s suggested user list – the list of Twitter accounts shown to new users of the service to help them find interesting people to fo... |
| Nov 13, 2009 | Wikipedia Runs Ads Highlighting Their No-Ad Policy | Moments after Craigslist founder Craig Newmark joins the Wikimedia/Wikipedia advisory board things start to go crazy.
Way back in 2006 Jason Calacanis, then an executive at AOL, was trying to convince Wikipedia to puts ads on the site. It w... |
| Nov 4, 2009 | The Price of Money: Say no, no, no – till your tongue bleeds | [UK] This is a guest post by Doug Richard, the American-born but UK based entrepreneur and formerly of the BBC’s Dragon’s Den show. Doug is the Founder and Vice-Chairman of the Cambridge Angels and Chairman of the Conservative Party Small B... |
| Nov 2, 2009 | Pay for Content Is Not Suicide, It's Experimentation | In the last couple of weeks, a number of media companies have all declared their readiness to make people pay for what they get. The wagging fingers predicting dire consequences don't seem to get the business issues in play, because they tr... |
| Oct 22, 2009 | The Angel Empire Strikes Back – Why pay-to-pitch works | This is a guest post by Chris Padfield, Investment Manager with London Business Angels and London Seed Capital. In it he reacts to our latest post from LondonVC, our VC columnist, who argues against startups attending pay-to-pitch events, w... |
| Oct 21, 2009 | Here's how to meet a VC (hint: not by paying to pitch) | This is our second guest post (here was the first) written by a London-based VC. To allow them to speak plainly without jeopardising their fund or their career in the small village that is the London VC scene, I’m allowing them to post anon... |
| Oct 21, 2009 | Pay-to-Pitch versus Event Sponsorships: What’s the Diff? | After tech heavy hitters like Jason Calacanis, Robert Scoble and Fred Wilson expressed public outrage over its pay-to-play fees, the Keiretsu Forum has begun waiving fees for early-stage startup presentations. According to PeHUB’s Deborah G... |
| Oct 17, 2009 | Blog Stars | We had a discussion about "blog stars" in the comments to my post yesterday. Kid Mercury has been saying for as long I recall that niche communities are the future of the Internet. And he believes that niche communities are led by... |
| Oct 13, 2009 | Pay-to-Pitch: angel forums versus media co.s | Media companies by nature sell exposure. Angel Forums shouldn't have to. Which one is Keiretsu?
By now, you've probably read Jason Calacanis' crusade--er, jihad--against pitch-to-pay angel forums. Since last Friday, few Keiretsu members hav... |
| Oct 13, 2009 |
Calacanis/Keiretsu Tiff Heats Up With Lawsuit
| A personal campaign by Santa Monica-based Mahalo.com's CEO, Jason Calacanis, to put pressure on for-profit angel investment firms to stop charging entrepreneurs to pitch, has ramped up, as Calacanis said Tuesday that he has been informed th... |
| Oct 12, 2009 | Angels Who Charge Entrepreneurs to Pitch: the Debate Heats Up | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It’s an Xconomy holiday today, but I couldn’t resist a quick pointer post to an argument heating up across the Web—one that is related to a story we ran here last week about a... |
| Oct 11, 2009 | Startup Scam: Paying to Pitch Puts Power Players on the Warpath | Over the weekend, the blogosphere has seen a small but profound eruption of wrath over angel investor groups that charge startups to pitch them.
Jason Calacanis’ blog post on the topic, wherein he went as far as calling out these groups by ... |
| Oct 11, 2009 | Paying To Pitch | Jason Calacanis has taken on a new cause, outing angel groups that charge entrepreneurs to pitch. I agree with Jason that any angel group that charges an entrepreneur to pitch should be avoided. It suggests to me that the group is more abou... |
| Oct 6, 2009 | New York City frees government data for app contest | Following on the heels of a movement to make government transparent with technology, New York City is freeing more than 170 data sets from city agencies and hosting a competition for the best apps.
They city has partnered with ChallengePost... |
| Oct 5, 2009 |
Calacanis Takes On Keiretsu Forum On Fees
| Jason Calacanis, CEO of Santa Monica-based Mahalo.com and co-producer of the TechCrunch50 conference--not known for pulling his punches--publicly targeted angel group The Keiretsu Forum today for their presentation fees. According to Calaca... |
| Sep 14, 2009 | TC50 Backstage: Why Paul Graham Was So Mean and Which of his Companies Will IPO | He calls me out on it in the video below so I might as well admit it: I’ve been a bit hard on Paul Graham and Y Combinator in the past. It’s not that I think he hasn’t been a great mentor to young entrepreneurs– he has. But that’s a lot of ... |
| Sep 13, 2009 | To Those About To Demo: How to Deal With Your 15 Minutes of Fame | For the fortunate startups selected to present at any of several large tech conferences this summer and fall, the experience is fraught with excitement, opportunity, and pitfalls in equal measure.
Here’s a round up of words from the wise, i... |
| Sep 13, 2009 | Countdown To TechCrunch50, And Some Advice From Veterans | It’s less than a day before the third annual (and third sold out) TechCrunch50 launch event in San Francisco. Fifty startups are preparing to launch their new products on stage in front of thousands of people. Are they nervous? Yep. But its... |
| Aug 12, 2009 | Now that he's talking… Here's 6 Questions Apple's Phil Schiller should answer | So, apparently, Apple’s Phil Schiller is starting to talk about Apple’s missteps. After months of silence, one of Apple’s top executives (and possibly the most public-facing one next to Jobs) has started to reach out to the tech community t... |
| Aug 9, 2009 | If Jason Calacanis is against Apple, who can be for it? | It is the end. Jason “The Animal” Calacanis is thinking about maybe quitting using Apple products, reporting that the company has gone all corporate and mainstream and that Steve has lost his hippie, dippy LSD edge. Look at this language, p... |
| Aug 9, 2009 | The Case Against Apple Is Just As Much A Case For Apple | I’ve had a half dozen or so longer posts about Apple brewing in my head the past couple of weeks. There is no shortage of controversy surrounding the company right now thanks largely to the hugely popular and hugely unpopular aspects of the... |
| Aug 5, 2009 | Savings.com revamps coupon site, puts Calacanis on board | 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!
Savings.com has revamped its website by adding mo... |
| Jul 31, 2009 | Double Down, But Only On The Right Hand | Last weekend, we watched Casino Royale on the beach in Slovenia, just up the Adriatic coast from Montenegro, where the story takes place. I love the scenes at the poker table, particularly the one where Bond goes all in and loses all his mo... |
