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| Jan 22, 2025 | The Streaming Wars Heat Up: Plex's New CMO and Kodi's Latest Release | The streaming landscape is a battlefield. Companies vie for attention, subscribers, and market share. In this ever-evolving arena, Plex has made a bold move. They’ve appointed Matt DiPietro as their Chief Marketing Officer. His mission? To ... |
| Jan 21, 2025 | Global Streaming Media Company Plex Appoints Matt DiPietro as CMO | In its ongoing quest to end the streaming struggle and become the one-stop shop for all things TV and movies, global streaming media company Plex has appointed Matt DiPietro as Chief Marketing Officer. DiPietro will drive Plex’s mission for... |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Reddit has finally gone public. From Sam Altman to Condé Nast owner Advance, here's who made bank. | Startups Reddit has finally gone public. From Sam Altman to Condé Nast owner Advance, here's who made bank.
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| Nov 20, 2023 | Новый временный гендиректор OpenAI Эмметт Шир раскрыл свои планы | Новый временный гендиректор OpenAI Эмметт Шир (соучредитель сервиса потокового видео Twitch ) раскрыл свои близлежащие планы по управлению компанией после отставки Альтмана и рассказал, что принял предложение Совета директоров спустя нескол... |
| Jul 24, 2019 | Anu Hariharan on Managing a Board
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Transcript | Anu Hariharan is a partner at YC. Today’s episode is about her recent post, How To Manage a Board.
You can find her on Twitter @anuhariharan. Topics
00:15 – Why Anu wrote How to Manage a Board
1:45 – Board composition
3:45 – Adding inde... |
| Mar 27, 2019 | Amy Buechler and Michael Seibel on Founder Coaching and Having Hard Conversations
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Transcript | Amy Buechler is an executive coach for startup founders.
Michael Seibel is a partner and the CEO of YC.
In this episode we talk about coaching and use examples from Michael’s time working on Justin.tv and Socialcam.
You can find Amy at h... |
| Nov 28, 2018 | Michael Seibel on Starting a Startup, Finding Product Market Fit, and Fundraising
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Transcript | Michael Seibel is a partner and the CEO of YC. He cofounded Justin.tv, which was in the winter 2007 batch and Socialcam, which was in the winter 2012 batch.
In this episode Michael comments on five of his essays. The essays are: Why Should... |
| Nov 28, 2018 | Michael Seibel on Starting a Startup, Finding Product Market Fit, and Fundraising | Michael Seibel is a partner and the CEO of YC. He cofounded Justin.tv, which was in the winter 2007 batch and Socialcam, which was in the winter 2012 batch.
In this episode Michael comments on five of his essays. The essays are: Why Should... |
| Oct 16, 2018 | Helping African Businesses Get Paid, Shola Akinlade of Paystack
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Transcript | Shola Akinlade is CEO and cofounder of Paystack. Paystack helps businesses in Africa get paid online and offline. They’re based in Lagos, Nigeria and were part of the Winter 2016 batch.
Shola’s on Twitter @shollsman. Topics
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| Oct 16, 2018 | Helping African Businesses Get Paid, Shola Akinlade of Paystack | Shola Akinlade is CEO and cofounder of Paystack. Paystack helps businesses in Africa get paid online and offline. They’re based in Lagos, Nigeria and were part of the Winter 2016 batch.
Shola’s on Twitter @shollsman. Topics
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| Aug 3, 2018 | Office Hours with Michael Seibel | Michael Seibel is a Partner and the CEO of YC.
He cofounded Justin.tv, which was in the Winter 2007 batch and Socialcam, which was in the Winter 2012 batch.
For this episode we took questions from the internet. If you have questions for a... |
| Aug 3, 2018 | Office Hours with Michael Seibel
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Transcript | Michael Seibel is a Partner and the CEO of YC.
He cofounded Justin.tv, which was in the Winter 2007 batch and Socialcam, which was in the Winter 2012 batch.
For this episode we took questions from the internet. If you have questions for a... |
| May 2, 2016 | Meet the Entrepreneur Who Sold His Tech Startup to GM for $1 Billion | This story first appeared on Entrepreneur.
When Dan Kan was a senior in college, he applied for about 35 jobs, most of them in finance. By the time he graduated in 2009 from Claremont McKenna college, Kan had been rejected from all but two ... |
| Jul 3, 2015 | Sources: YC Alums Club Together For Crystal Towers, A $100M VC Fund For Promising YC Startups | Y Combinator has helped over 800 startups come to market that are today worth a collective $30 billion (and possibly even more very soon). Now it looks like a new VC is emerging out of it that will be dedicated to help the most promising of... |
| Aug 5, 2014 | Following Google purchase, Twitch shutters Justin.tv | Twitch was spun out of Justin.tv, an online platform for creating and sharing live video broadcasts
It's often said that your first idea will not be your best idea, and so it goes for a number of startups. Sometimes, a product or spin-off c... |
| Sep 30, 2013 | YC-funded Twitch raises $20M for live video gaming, doubled viewers to 45M monthly in the past year | Live video gaming platform Twitch has been on a growth tear this past year and has raised $20 million from investors to rip it up some more.
Unlike competitors Ustream, LiveStream, YouTube and others enabling individuals and companies to b... |
| Aug 8, 2013 | Yevvo For iPhone Debuts A New Take On Live Broadcasting | Newly launched mobile broadcasting app Yevvo has a different idea about how live mobile video apps should work. Instead of focusing only on a social model where users find and follow other people on the service, Yevvo users can also follow ... |
| Aug 8, 2013 | Microsoft’s Lightweight Windows Phone App Builder Saw 30,000 Projects Started In First 48 Hours | Today on the Windows Developer Show, on which I was a guest, Microsoft’s Bryan Tomlinson announced that the new Windows Phone App Studio had seen usage higher than the company anticipated, with 30,000 applications started in the first 48 ho... |
| Jul 2, 2013 | Viral video startup Justin.tv raising $20M round of funding | 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!
Justin.tv has raised $8.3 million of an intended ... |
| Jul 2, 2013 | Viral video startup Justin.tv raising $20M round of funding | Justin.tv has raised $8.3 million of an intended $20 million funding round.
Justin.tv is a hot startup that offers live-streamed video services. It was one of the first live streaming platforms and continues to be one of the most popular — ... |
| Jul 2, 2013 | Funding Daily: Video-mania | 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!
Videos are quite literally taking over the Intern... |
| Jan 29, 2013 | Ivy Leaguers: Your credentials are worthless here | 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!
American companies are obsessed with hiring Harva... |
| Jan 29, 2013 | Ivy Leaguers: Your credentials are worthless here | American companies are obsessed with hiring Harvard grads and Wharton MBAs. This is true of the tech industry, even extending into startups, driving entry-level top school CS bachelor’s degree grad salaries into the six figures in the Bay A... |
| Sep 7, 2012 | Stanford startups pitch earwax removal, blood-drawing robots and more at summer Demo Day | Watch live video from start x on Justin.tv
Remember that post last week about robots taking over healthcare? StartX provides us with another example. Veebot LLC has developed a device that automates the most common vascular access procedure... |
| Sep 6, 2012 | StartX, The Startup Accelerator For Stanford Students, Kicks Off Its Summer 2012 Demo Day | StartX, the startup accelerator for companies founded by Stanford students, just kicked off Demo Day for its Summer 2012 startup class at AOL’s Silicon Valley headquarters in Palo Alto this evening. The non-profit program, which recently la... |
| Apr 18, 2012 | Microsoft PM “Resigns” Via Video, Joins Justin Kan’s New Startup Exec | Exec, the new TaskRabbit competitor from Justin.tv’s co-founder, Justin Kan, has just hired a new designer it seems. Or so she sings. In a video posted to YouTube by one Karen X. Cheng, she sings and strums – rather nicely, in fact – to the... |
| Apr 9, 2012 | The Rat Race | Editor’s note: Justin Kan is the founder of Exec, the fastest way to get your jobs or errands done in real-time. He previously co-founded Justin.tv / TwitchTV, which recently spun off Socialcam. You can follow him on Twitter @justinkan and ... |
| Apr 5, 2012 | 16M Users Strong, TwitchTV Takes Live-Streamed Gaming Portal Mobile With iPad And Android Apps | TwitchTV, a live-streamed video game portal and community for gamers that was spawned last June from live video platform Justin.tv, has been booming in terms of growth and revenue. But the platform didn’t yet offer native mobile apps for th... |
| Apr 4, 2012 | Robotic fish swim the stories of the dead, design the future | A fish may not need a bicycle, but a bicycle could learn a lot about the mechanics of movement from a fish. A group of robotics experts gathered today at a “Biorobotics Roundtable” sponsored by Kirkland robotics maker Coroware to discuss ho... |
| Apr 3, 2012 | Want To Rent A Founder? Justin Kan’s Exec Is Making That Happen (For Charity) | Justin Kan is a busy guy. The serial entrepreneur is best known as the founder of Justin.tv, the online community that lets users broadcast, watch, and interact around video. Last year, he and team spun-off Twitch.tv, a gaming-focused versi... |
| Feb 29, 2012 | Justin.tv’s Namesake Founder Takes On Task Services With Exec | Justin.tv has already gone in two directions. The main one is Twitch.tv, a video game-focused version of the original video streaming site, that by all accounts has booming traffic and revenue. The other one is SocialCam, a mobile video app... |
| Feb 27, 2012 | Michael Dell emphasizes enterprise solutions over PC sales | 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!
Dell is a huge PC maker with more than $62 billio... |
| Feb 22, 2012 | Startup News: Grokking Facebook Timeline for Fun and Profit | Betabeat: Bringing you the finest in tech and startup news from these fine machines since before we were born. (BuzzFeed)
BLAST FROM THE PAST. Now, thanks to BuzzFeed, you can show all your friends how vintage chic your technology was—befor... |
| Jan 31, 2012 | SocialCam is the latest alum startup returning to Y Combinator | Having spun out of online broadcaster Justin.tv last year, SocialCam has managed to get a strong footing on iOS and Android. It passed 3 million downloads in December, and it’s now sending 3 million notifications a day, with video uploads a... |
| Jan 30, 2012 | SocialCam Is Growing, But It’s The Latest Alum Startup Returning To Y Combinator Anyway | Having spun out of online broadcaster Justin.tv last year, SocialCam has managed to get a strong footing on iOS and Android. It passed 3 million downloads in December, and it’s now sending 3 million notifications a day, with video uploads a... |
| Jan 13, 2012 | Ron Conway, Mayor Lee And Heather Harde Launch sfCITI, Want To Keep SF At The Forefront Of Tech | At a press conference at San Francisco’s Founders Den, newly elected Mayor Ed Lee announced sfCITI (San Francisco Citizens Initiative for Technology & Innovation), a set of tech initiatives spearheaded by investor Ron Conway, Mayor Ed L... |
| Dec 16, 2011 | TwitchTV wants to be the ESPN of gaming | It’s hard, at first, to seriously consider gaming as a spectator sport. Doesn’t that sort of defeat the purpose? Don’t you want to play the game?
Well yes, of course. But that doesn’t mean watching others game isn’t fun.
Hell, look at the m... |
| Nov 28, 2011 | How To Get A Job At A Startup If You Have No Skills | Editor’s note: This guest post is by Justin Kan, cofounder of Justin.tv and TwitchTV. You can follow him on Twitter and read his blog.
Recently I had a conversation with a friend of mine who was interested in doing product management at a s... |
| Oct 30, 2011 | Zuckerberg: Jeff Bezos is one of the greats, and startups don’t need to be in the Valley to win | Mark Zuckerberg refers to Jeff Bezos by his last name only, like some guy from the dorm. The Facebook CEO thinks the Amazon CEO is “one of the great entrepreneurs of our time.”
And Zuckerberg seems impressed that Bezos was independent enoug... |
| Oct 30, 2011 | Facebook’s Zuckerberg: If I Were Starting A Company Now, I Would Have Stayed In Boston | Yesterday, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at Y Combinator’s Startup School in a candid interview with Y Combinator Partner Jessica Livingston. You can watch the full interview here, and it starts around the 43 minut... |
| Oct 26, 2011 | Justin.TV Brings Live-Streamed Video Gaming Portal TwitchTV To The iPhone | In June Justin.tv launched one of its first verticals, TwitchTV, a live-streamed video game portal and community for gamers. The platform has since taken off in terms of usage, and today, TwitchTV is expanding to the iPhone.
For background,... |
| Oct 13, 2011 | Justin.tv signs exclusive broadcast deal with giant e-sports league ESL | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Justin.tv announced today that it has secured an exclusive distribution deal with the electronic sports league, ESL, to broadcast elect... |
| Oct 12, 2011 | Michael Dell hosts Dell World 2011 in Austin | At Dell World 2011, Michael Dell will take questions today during a panel discussion with press and analysts at the Long Center in Austin. |
| Aug 29, 2011 | After A Hot Start, Justin.tv Spins Off Socialcam, Its ‘Instagram for Video’ | Last spring, just in time for SXSW, Justin.tv launched a new standalone video app that has a simple purpose: it lets you share short videos with your friends with just a few taps. The app adopted a model that’s very similar to Instagram’s, ... |
| Aug 11, 2011 | Justin.TV’s Video Gaming Portal Twitch.TV Is Growing Fast | In June Justin.tv launched TwitchTV, a live-streamed video game portal and community for gamers. It was an interesting move considering the video streaming company hadn’t really explored any verticals until then. But it looks like the start... |
| Aug 1, 2011 | Looking For the Next Big Thing: Amazon Announces Fifth Annual AWS Start-up Challenge | Amazon announced today its fifth annual Amazon Web Services Start-up Challenge for entrepreneurs using AWS. This year the contest has been expanded globally and will reward 15 regional semifinalists, five each from the Americas, Asia Pacifi... |
| Jul 25, 2011 | Massive $112 Million Venture Round Pumps Up Expectations for Airbnb | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Apparently, the world is full of people who own homes or condos but would rather rent them out than actually live in them. And it has an equal number of people (perhaps the sa... |
| Jul 20, 2011 | Advertisers could push live streaming into its golden age | You’re about to witness a sharp increase in the number of advertisements and marketing campaigns that use live, interactive broadcast platforms.
For example, look no further than the hidden webcams Honest Tea pointed at bottles of tea it le... |
| Jul 20, 2011 | Advertisers could push live streaming into its golden age | 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!
You’re about to witness a sharp increase in the n... |
| Jul 15, 2011 | Socialcam Surpasses 1 Million Downloads, Now Lets Users Trim The Fat | Socialcam, the service from Justin.tv that’s essentially an ‘Instagram for Video’, has passed a big milestone: since launching in March, they now have more than one million downloads on iOS devices (actually they have more than that now, be... |
| Jul 10, 2011 | Justin.TV: The Movie | While the historical accuracy of Facebook tell-all The Social Network was questionable, the movie did tremendously well at the box office. And at the Golden Globe Awards and the Oscars. Now Hollywood producers are looking for the next big s... |
| Jul 4, 2011 | Failure to launch | Failure. It’s the thing that entrepreneurs fear the most, a perennial threat to livelihood that lurks in the background of every decision and wrong turn.
Recent figures released by credit reporting agency Dun & Bradstreet show the numbe... |
| Jun 27, 2011 | Startups Don’t Die, They Commit Suicide | Justin Kan is the founder of Justin.tv and Socialcam. You can follow him on Twitter here and read his blog here.
Startups die in many ways, but in the past couple of years I’ve noticed that the most common cause of death is what I call “Sta... |
| Jun 21, 2011 | TC Cribs: Inside The Escheresque Home Of Justin.tv and Socialcam | We’re back for a new episode of TC Cribs, and it’s featuring a startup long-time TechCrunch readers will know well: Justin.tv. The office is a quirky mix of hallways, rooms that probably shouldn’t be rooms, and secret stairways — and it’s l... |
| Jun 13, 2011 | Y Combinator Brings On Alumni To Be "Part Time Partners" | Y Combinator has just announced its “Part Time Partner” program, which will bring in former YC alumni to mentor the most recent cohort of startups, like regular partners, but only 1/5 of the time.
Joining the prestigious ranks of Paul Graha... |
| Jun 6, 2011 | Justin.tv Debuts Live-Streamed Video Gaming Portal And Community TwitchTV | Startup Justin.tv has long offered live video streaming through its web platform as well as through various mobile apps. In fact, Justin.tv serves more than 300 million live videos per month. But besides streaming events, the startup hasn’t... |
| Jun 2, 2011 | Reinventing the board meeting - Part 2 of 2 | Virtual Valley Ventures There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come
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A revolution has taken hold as customer development and agile engineering reinvent the Startup process. It’s time... |
| May 4, 2011 | Socialcam's 'Instagram for Video' Is Now On The Web, Too | Socialcam, the video sharing app that was created by Justin.tv, is quickly fleshing out its feature set. The app — which is a lot like an ‘Instagram for video’, minus the effects filters — launched just in time for SXSW and had 250,000 down... |
| Apr 28, 2011 | The Complete Guide To Watching And Tracking The Royal Wedding Online | For any of you caught up in the frenzy over the royal wedding between England’s Prince William and Kate Middleton, we’ve collected a comprehensive list of where to watch the festivities online, where to find photos, dedicated mobile apps, T... |
| Apr 20, 2011 | Socialcam 2.0 Lands on The iPhone | Back in Feburary we took an in-depth look at Socialcam, the mobile video app for iPhone and Android that was built by Justin.tv. The app is easiest to describe as an ‘Instagram for video’ — fire it up and you’ll see a stream of videos recen... |
| Apr 8, 2011 | YouTube Live officially launches, backed by popular Revision3 shows | After a rocky start, YouTube today officially launched its live streaming service, along with the support of popular shows from the web video network Revision3, including The Totally Rad Show, Dan 3.0, and Destructoid.
The move towards live... |
| Mar 21, 2011 | Justin.tv’s social video bet pays off with 150K downloads | Justin.tv, one of the best-known startups offering live-streaming video services, launched a mobile video application called Socialcam two weeks ago that moved the company in a new direction. The app seems to be attracting users — it has be... |
| Mar 10, 2011 | Live-streaming site Justin.tv buffing up for e-sports channels | Justin.tv, a site that lets web browsers watch and publish live video streams, is recruiting additional developers to build an exclusive electronic sports live-streaming website for games like real-time strategy game Starcraft II: Wings of ... |
| Feb 12, 2011 | Why Starting Justin.tv Was A Really Bad Idea, But I'm Glad We Did It Anyway | Editor’s note: The following guest post was written by Justin Kan, founder of Justin.tv.
Right now I’m neck deep in product launch mode, putting the finishing touches on our new mobile video application—Socialcam. Of course, I’ve been here ... |
| Jan 7, 2011 | Where the Valley’s hottest incubator nests its companies | A new report shows that most companies developed at Y Combinator, the much-watched Silicon Valley incubator known for both the geeky prowess of the startups it grooms and the Hollywood glitz of the investors it draws to its Demo Day events,... |
| Dec 10, 2010 | Justin.tv claims “frame reinsertion” will cross the quality gap in mobile live video streaming | Live video streaming site Justin.tv today announced an update that includes what it has dubbed “Frame Reinsertion,” which will allow users to upload the full resolution version of a video in the background, even as the video is being broadc... |
| Nov 10, 2010 | Livestream For Facebook Lets You DIY Live Stream Video On Fan Pages | Livestream, the live video streaming service that has hooked up with Facebook in the past for Facebook Live, is launching another partnership with the social networking giant. From today onward brands with a Facebook fan page can manually l... |
| Oct 22, 2010 | 180 Apps Launch At Rails Rumble 2010: Our Five Favorites | Astute readers may have noticed a common thread between some of the apps that have been appearing on TechCrunch this past week – namely, that they were built in 48 hours. It’s not just a coincidence: those apps were just two out of nearly 2... |
| Oct 22, 2010 | Ustream Lets Users Set Up Their Own Pay Per View And Ad Free Broadcasting | Today live video streaming service Ustream launches a series of new features with the intent of making it easier for users to monetize their platform.
The sexiest new feature is a service called Open Pay Per View which allows any Ustream br... |
| Oct 17, 2010 | Zuckerberg on Facebook movie: At least they got my wardrobe right | Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg might be less than impressed with the way he has been portrayed in the new movie The Social Network, but he has conceded that the movie about the creation of Facebook got one thing right – his wardrobe.
Spea... |
| Oct 16, 2010 | Y Combinator Startup School Kicks Off With Founders Of Sun, Groupon, And YC | Today Y Combinator is holding its sixth Startup School, where a roster of Silicon Valley’s most experienced and successful founders and investors come together to lecture hundreds of eager entrepreneurs. The event is always extremely popula... |
| Oct 16, 2010 | Lessons from Startup School from the Founders of Facebook, Groupon, GitHub and More | Startup School is an annual event co-sponsored by Y Combinator and BASES, Stanford University’s Business Association for Entrepreneurial Students. Today’s Startup School, now in its sixth year, was a day full of speakers, imparting their kn... |
| Oct 15, 2010 | Despite Employee Shakeout, Justin.tv Continues To Grow | Justin.tv has been bleeding employees recently. VP of Marketing Evan Soloman, VP of Business Development David Aufhauser (and most of the business development team), and VP of Product Caleb Elston have all left the video streaming startup o... |
| Oct 8, 2010 | Justin.tv VP Of Product Latest To Stream Out; Starts Stealth Mobile Sharing Startup, Yobongo | It was just over a year ago that Caleb Elston announced he would be leaving Miami and heading to San Francisco to become the VP of Product for Justin.tv. As of today, he’s out to commit himself to his new startup, Yobongo, a stealth startup... |
| Sep 16, 2010 | Justin.tv Brings Live Broadcasting to its iPhone App | Streaming video website Justin.tv has released a new version of its iPhone app that allows users to broadcast live video directly from the app over 3G and WiFi. This means that Justin.tv users, wherever they are, can share what’s going on a... |
| Sep 16, 2010 | At last, Justin.tv users can broadcast live video from their iPhones | Over the past few months, live video startup Justin.tv has been inching towards bringing live video broadcasting capabilities to the iPhone. In March, it released an iPhone application for watching, but not broadcasting, videos. Two weeks a... |
| Sep 16, 2010 | Justin.tv's Newest App Now Broadcasts Live Video From Your iPhone | Time spent watching live video is up 650 percent in the U.S. over the past year, thanks to the proliferation of a number of live video publishers including Justin.tv, Ustream, Qik and Livestream. In particular, Justin.tv has been one of the... |
| 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... |
| Sep 13, 2010 | Dyyno: Stream Anything From Your Desktop to Justin.tv With One Click | Streaming video service Dyyno just launched an interesting new product for anybody who wants to stream live video, presentations, games or movies from a desktop to the Web. Thanks to integrating closely with Justin.tv, Dyyno’s Universal Bro... |
| Sep 12, 2010 | It's Real: YouTube Debuts Live Streaming Platform With Two-Day Test | The rumors were true: after months — years, even — of speculation, YouTube is preparing to launch a full-fledged live streaming platform, enabling its content parters to stream their video directly to users in real-time. This will put the s... |
| Sep 9, 2010 | Mobile Video Streaming Service Qik Has 3.5M Users, Projects 75M Installs In Next Year | We’ve been tracking the progress of Qik, a service that lets you broadcast movies from your mobile phone directly to the web, for years now. But until now we haven’t been able to get an especially accurate grasp of just how well the service... |
| Sep 1, 2010 | Justin.tv Finally Broadcasts Live From Your Android Phone | When you think about broadcasting live video over the Internet, being tethered to your computer isn’t so much fun. Broadcasting live from your mobile phone, now that starts to get interesting. Today, Justin.tv is joining the mobile party wi... |
| Sep 1, 2010 | Justin.tv Launches Mobile Broadcasting App, Competes on Video Quality | Justin.tv is finally breaking into the mobile broadcasting business with today’s release of its first Android application and with an iPhone version soon to follow. The company admits that it’s not the first to do mobile broadcasting – comp... |
| Sep 1, 2010 | Live Blog: Apple’s Fall Event (New iPods, iOS 4.1, iTunes 10, Apple TV) | Apple is holding its annual Fall event today. Historically, these events have always focused on the iPod line. While we definitely expect to see a revamped iPod lineup, the rumor mill also points towards a new Apple TV and a major update fo... |
| Aug 31, 2010 | Traction for Your Startup: How to Get It & How Much is Enough | You could have the greatest idea for a startup in the world. You could even have the best team working together to build a great product. That’s all fine and dandy, but for first-time entrepreneurs, if you don’t have traction, you’re not go... |
| Aug 27, 2010 | Y Combinator and Facebook teaming up | Product, technical and design support for social based start up companies
Facebook is teaming up with venture capital firm, Y Combinator, to encourage the creation of social-media-based startups.
Startups that participate in the joint progr... |
| Aug 25, 2010 | Wannabe angels: Watch the video of every speech from AngelConf | Incubator Y Combinator held its second AngelConf last month, where well-known investors spoke to an audience of prospective angels. If you weren’t able to make it in-person, and you didn’t want to watch the giant chunk of unedited video on ... |
| Aug 2, 2010 | Tough Talk from Ultimate Fighting Championship Yields User IDs from Ustream.tv | The parent company of Ultimate Fighting Championship announced subpoenas for the live streaming websites Ustream.tv and Justin.tv just over a week ago, alleging that users were broadcasting the pay-per-view events for free and demanding the... |
| Jul 31, 2010 | Raising Money – The July Roundup | Just as the month of June closed with a flurry of discussion around investment creeds and crashes, the end of July has seen the debate and discussion continue, with a number of blog posts that continue to explore the state of the investment... |
| Jul 8, 2010 | Want To Become An Angel Investor? YC's AngelConf 2010 Will Show You How | Last year, Y Combinator held a special event called AngelConf, where it invited dozens of prospective angel investors to get advice from some of Silicon Valley’s most seasoned veterans. The event was a hit, and this year, they’re doing it a... |
| Jun 17, 2010 | Y Combinator Gives A Crash Course On What It's Like To 'Work At A Startup' | Tonight at its headquarters in Mountain View, California, Y Combinator invited dozens of programmers to a new event called Work at a Startup. The event, which was announced last month, is meant to help expose programmers to what they should... |
| Jun 11, 2010 | Where to safely watch the FIFA World Cup 2010 online | According to datacenter traffic management company Akamai, today has been one of the busiest days on the Internet, with more than 11 million visitor requests to its news network per minute, a dramatic 233% spike in daily traffic. This is th... |
| Jun 3, 2010 | Screenshot Hints At YouTube "Live Stream" Option | YouTube has been dabbling with its own live streams for almost two years now. It’s live streamed presidential speeches, healthcare debates, cricket matches, and a U2 concert. But so far it’s stayed away from opening up live streaming to the... |
| May 31, 2010 | A Twitter hackfest reveals more possibilities for ‘Annotations’ | Would you keep a daily diary on Twitter? Or use it to decide what to wear? Or use it to bypass text-messages charges in international countries?
The possibilities for Twitter are about to get a lot richer with the ability to add annotations... |
| May 31, 2010 | A Twitter hackfest reveals more possibilities for ‘Annotations’ | 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!
Would you keep a daily diary on Twitter? Or use i... |
| May 26, 2010 | YC Founders at Work Series: Reddit interview tomorrow at 1:00pm PDT | At 1:00 pm (PDT) tomorrow, I’ll be interviewing Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian. Alexis founded Reddit with Steve Huffman in 2005 and was part of Y Combinator’s first funding cycle. Reddit was one of a new generation of user-driven news aggre... |
| May 21, 2010 | Y Combinator Raises Over $8M to Expand Incubator Membership | Silicon Valley-based startup incubator Y Combinator (YC) announced today that is has raised $8.25 million with which it plans to provide funding to a larger group of startups this summer. Leading the funding was Sequoia Capital along with s... |
| May 5, 2010 | Justin.tv claims Thai government blocked protest coverage | Internet censorship hit another hot Web startup this week.
“We found out yesterday the the Thai government has censored Justin.tv for anti-government content on the site,” Justin.tv vice president of marketing Evan Solomon wrote in an email... |
| May 5, 2010 | Justin.tv claims Thai government blocked protest coverage | 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!
Internet censorship hit another hot Web startup t... |
