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| Dec 19, 2018 | Today's Entrepreneur: Esther Dyson | It's amazing to be part of a team that works together and does so much more than any individual does
Today's entrepreneur is Esther Dyson.
In 2013 Esther co-founded Wellville - a national nonprofit project to demonstrate the value of invest... |
| Mar 27, 2013 | Eventful 2.0 Gives Its 20M Users A Personalized List Of Everything Going On Nearby | It’s not going to win any beauty pageants, but Eventful 2.0 could make sure you never get bored. It’s racked up 20 million registered users and shows of 4 million events at a time, but with today’s big relaunch Eventful gets personalized th... |
| Dec 31, 2012 | From a party of 1 to a million: 20 tech tips to celebrate New Year’s Eve | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
My New Year’s Eves have spanned the full spectrum of celebration. I have danced until dawn at underground warehouse parties, toasted wi... |
| May 2, 2012 | Crowdsourcing Demand | One of my favorite features in a web application is Demand It! from Eventful. The concept is simple but powerful (the best kind). Users demand events, movies, concerts, etc and if they can rally enough demands, they get the events to come t... |
| Jun 24, 2010 | eBay founder Omidyar leads $5.5M for D.light’s solar lanterns | D.light Design, the startup making solar-powered LED lanterns to improve lighting in the developing world, landed $5.5 million earlier this week. But it’s made news again, revealing the identity of its lead investor: the Omidyar Network, th... |
| Jun 24, 2010 | eBay founder Omidyar leads $5.5M for D.light’s solar lanterns | 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!
D.light Design, the startup making solar-powered ... |
| Jan 25, 2010 | Aloqa 2.0 expands its location-based info app | Aloqa, a mobile application that serves up local information to users based on their location, has released version 2.0 of its offering. The new version brings more local knowledge and social information to its nearly 300,000 users.
Aloqa, ... |
| Oct 12, 2009 | Will 'Paranormal Activity' Teach The Movie Industry A Lesson? | I have to admit I don’t usually like scary movies, and I didn’t like the Blair Witch Project at all. But I can’t help but be impressed that the Blair Witch movie cost just $60,000 and pulled in a cool $140 million back in 1999. That kind of... |
| Jul 16, 2009 | Aloqa raises $1.5M for location-based mobile content | Aloqa, a mobile search company that sends you information about events, friends and other data based on your location, launched its first product today at MobileBeat: an app for Android-based devices.
The company also announced $1.5 million... |
| Jul 16, 2009 | Aloqa raises $1.5M for location-based mobile content | 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!
Aloqa, a mobile search company that sends you inf... |
| Dec 2, 2008 | Location-based advertising: Place trumps traditional targeting | [Editor’s note: It’s no secret that online advertising is starting to slow down in response to the economic slump. Display ads, the meat and potatoes for companies like Yahoo, have been hit especially hard. So for companies looking to squee... |
| Nov 20, 2008 | Eventful launches strategic partnership with Billboard.com | San Diego-based Eventful has partnered with Billboard to bring two new music charts to the music publication’s online property.
Eventful, which lets user discover, share, and request events specific to their location, will add the ‘Eventful... |
| Nov 12, 2008 | What's Happening in Europe? Check Out Happenr. | If you are looking for something to do in Europe, check out Happenr, an events search engine that covers Germany, Ireland, Belgium, and the top 100 cities across the Continent. The site just launched after a year in development. It scours t... |
| Nov 11, 2008 | MadeIT Can't Make It In Invites, Switches To Online Ticketing | MadeIT, a San Francisco-based startup we profiled over a year ago, is leaving the crowded space of event planning and invitation applications and entering the equally-crowded space of online ticketing service providers.
CEO Stephen Weir tol... |
| Oct 19, 2008 | Funding roundup - week ending 10/17/08 | Webaroo, Eventful, and Sonoa Systems are among companies that raised funds It's that time again for the weekly roundup of companies in the mobile, video, digital media, social network, and advertising sectors that raised money this past wee... |
| Oct 15, 2008 | Eventful Celebrates $10M Financing Event; Aims to “Cement” Lead in Online Events Services | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Eventful is celebrating its own financing event as it closes a $10 million Series C round, the company announced today. San Diego-based Eventful, a four-year-old firm that ena... |
| Sep 11, 2008 | Five Ways to Use Social Media to Reach People Who Don’t Use Social Media | Are you the only person at work who likes to read blogs? Is it your job to sell things to people who would probably throw you out of their offices if you said the word “twitter?” Are you trying to reach audiences who’ve never visited a soci... |
| Jun 19, 2008 | Topix Nabs 6 Content Partners To Become Local Info Hub | Topix, the local news community that allows readers to submit and edit stories, has secured deals with six content providers as it moves to establish itself as a one-stop-shop for local information.
Topix will now use Eventful as an events ... |
| Jun 9, 2008 | Sense Networks experiments with indexing the city | In what may be a first step toward bringing some real-time intelligence to local recommendation sites like Yelp and CitySearch, a startup called Sense Networks is today unveiling a new platform, called Citysense, that it says can create a G... |
| Dec 28, 2007 | Events site going strong | If you don’t know what to do New Year’s Eve, take a look at the parties on Going, a year-old event listing site. Mos Def’s ‘Sneakers Required’ party may not be that exciting for you if you’re not in the site’s targeted demographic of 21-29 ... |
| Oct 28, 2007 | IMThere Joins MadeIt As The Most Recent Attempts To Crack The Event Nut | Any event based site is basically a social network – they are designed to allow interaction among friends to coordinate virtual or real world activities. The venerable Evite is still the king of online event coordination. None of the recent... |
| Oct 15, 2007 | Attendio leaves event listings in favor of widgets | updated
After being a portal for events for less than half a year, Attendio has abandoned the the events industry, saying that market is too small. It has decided instead to become a widget-making company, jumping from one crowded industry ... |
| Jul 15, 2007 | Ron Paul: A Distributed Web 2.0 Campaign | A funny thing has happened on the way to the 2008 US Presidential Elections, and it’s all got to do with Web 2.0.
Ron Paul is a name many will immediately recognize, but for those who don’t, Ron Paul wants to be the next President of the Un... |
| Apr 25, 2007 | Going, a networking site for urban events | Going.com, a Boston-based networking site centered around urban events, has grown rapidly since it launched in June of last year.
The site, which tomorrow changes its name to Going (away from HeyLetsGo.com), says it has 220,000 unique month... |
| Nov 7, 2006 | Zvents gets $7M (yikes) for Ajax events site | Updated
Zvents, which lets people search for events in their neighborhood, has raised $7 million in a first round of funding led by VantagePoint Venture Partners.
That is a very large sum of money, and it raises questions about the company’... |
| Oct 23, 2006 | No plans? Meet New People via Activities | No plans this week? Or, ever found yourself with an extra ticket to a concert or sporting event, but didn’t have anyone to go with? In the past, your solution was wading through Craigslist postings or calling all your friends. Well now ther... |
| Sep 19, 2006 | Eventful raises $7.5M for events site | Eventful, the San Diego start-up that lets you find events and then share those events with friends and others with RSS and other technologies, has raised $7.5 million more, according to VentureWire.
New investor Bay Partners led the round,... |
| Oct 6, 2005 | Zimbra & Zvents win at Web 2.0 & other gossip | Updated
Here’s our Merc story today (free registration) about the first day of Web 2.0. There were 13 start-ups launching products in the afternoon, and we sat back and listened to the crowd too. From sheer applause, and interrupting oohs a... |
| Oct 5, 2005 | An “eventful” day | With the Web 2.0 conference getting under way today, there’ll be tons of news about new companies. One company to present today is Zvents. Founded by Ethan Stock and Tyler Kovacs, the private company says its mission “to be the best way to ... |
| Sep 26, 2005 | Zvents Launches Next Week | Company: zvents
Launched: next week
Location: Menlo Park, CA
I had a chance to see a demo of the upcoming Zvents service this evening at the NetService Ventures Group office on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park.
Mark this one down as an ajax sho... |
