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| Dec 27, 2012 | VictorOps ‘band of brothers’ wage war against IT outages | 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!
In the eternal words of Z-Ro, “life is a battlefi... |
| Oct 4, 2011 | Lijit Networks Acquired by Federated Media Publishing | Lijit Networks, Inc., a Boulder, CO.-based provider of advertising services for online publishers, has been acquired by Federated Media Publishing for an undisclosed consideration.
Under the terms of the deal, Lijit will become a wholly own... |
| Oct 4, 2011 | Federated Media buys Lijit — a major win for the Boulder startup community | 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!
John Battelle’s Federated Media has just acquired... |
| Sep 6, 2011 | Kinetik Brings Social Narrative to App Store Purchases | A big problem for the nearly half a million apps available in the Apple App store is that they each lack an easily shareable social narrative that would empower users to buy.
San Francisco-based Kinetik, is trying to solve that problem and ... |
| Jul 28, 2011 | DOJ To Google: Yeah, We’re Gonna Need to Take Another Look at That AdMeld Deal | AdMeld CEO Michael Barrett
Last month, the news that Google wanted to acquire New York-based AdMeld, a platform that helps publishers sell display advertising inventory, for $400 million felt a little like deja-vu. After all, it was another... |
| Jul 18, 2011 | Financing Options: Preferred Stock | Today on MBA Mondays Startup Financing Options series, we are going to talk about the financing option that I specialize in – preferred stock.
Almost all venture capital firms and many angel and seed investors will require the company they ... |
| May 4, 2011 | Disqus Raises $10 Million, Doubles in Size Despite Facebook Comments | Real-time commenting system Disqus came out this morning with a bunch of numbers, including “10 million” (how many dollars it just secured). The battle for commenting solutions on the Web has clearly not died just because Facebook jumped in... |
| Apr 20, 2011 | Online Search, Advertising Company Lijit Networks Lands $10 Million | Lijit Networks, a provider of custom site search and advertising solutions for online publishers, has secured $10 million in financing in a round led by new investor Highway 12 Ventures. Existing backers like Foundry Group, Boulder Ventures... |
| Apr 20, 2011 | Lijit Networks Closes $10M Financing Round | Lijit Networks, Inc., a Boulder, Colorado-based provider of custom site search, reader engagement tools, and advertising solutions for online publishers, has closed $10m in financing.
The round was led by new investor Highway 12 Ventures, w... |
| Apr 20, 2011 | Lijit secures $10 million led by Highway 12 | Publisher network and advertising services, wedded under one roof
Lijit Networks, Inc., provider of website search engines, blog search tools and online advertising solutions, announced Wednesday that it has closed a $10 million financing r... |
| Mar 21, 2011 | After 5 Years Of Facilitating Sharing On The Web, AddToAny Turns A Profit | Like Twitter, AddToAny turns five years old this week. It doesn’t garner even a fraction of the attention that venture-backed competitors like Clearspring (AddThis), Gigya and ShareThis do, but it has definitely put its stake in the social ... |
| Aug 12, 2010 | Regulation strangulation | A regulated Internet is a frightening thought to entrepreneurs and the ecosystem around them
I've written a bit about net neutrality on this blog in the past few years. Every time I do, I hear about problems with regulating the Internet. Th... |
| Aug 12, 2010 | Regulation Strangulation | I've written a bit about net neutrality on this blog in the past few years. Every time I do, I hear about problems with regulating the Internet. The readers of this blog are a fairly "laissez faire" bunch. Guess what? So am I.
Som... |
| Jun 22, 2010 | Lijit Networks Raises $6M | Lijit Networks, Inc., a Boulder, CO-based provider of search and discovery tools for online publishers, has completed a $6m financing.
The round was led by existing shareholder Foundry Group, with participation from other previous investors... |
| Jun 18, 2010 | Lijit Proves Search Company Really Means Ad Company – Takes $6 Million Series D | Colorado startup Lijit is best known for providing websites with really good search. And it does search well – sites from Fred Wilson’s blog to ICanHasCheezburger use it.
But Lijit is really an advertising network. Publishers that use Lijit... |
| Feb 25, 2010 | The Startup Visa (update) | I've written about the Startup Visa movement on this blog before so many of you know what it is all about.
For those that don't, it is the idea that anyone who wants to start a business here in the US and can attract a modest amount of inve... |
| Feb 5, 2010 | NYC BigApps Winners Announced | I've posted about the NYC BigApps contest a few times here. And you all helped me with my chore of judging all 85 apps. Thank you for that.
Last night I walked up The Highline to IAC Headquarters to attend an event where the winners were an... |
| Oct 20, 2009 | Some complexities of VC seed investing | Should there be a difference between seed investment and "Series A investment?"
Mark Suster, a partner at GRP Partners, has an outstanding post up this morning titled VC Seed Funding is Dead, Long Live VC Seed Funding. Mark starte... |
| Jul 1, 2009 | Changing Horses Midstream: The Next Big Sound Susses Out Early-Stage Changes | When the young (and we mean young) team for music-focused startup The Next Big Sound was accepted for the TechStars acceleration program, they had a good product.
But just one week into the tech/business mentorship process, they realized th... |
| Mar 21, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: iPhone 3.0, Facebook Privacy Controls, Web-based Books, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarising the top stories of the week, we cover the iPhone OS 3.0 announcement, review the highlights from Microsoft’s MIX event, look at Facebook’s new privacy controls, check out some... |
| Mar 17, 2009 | SXSW Panel: Beyond Aggregation | One of the more popular panels at SXSW Interactive this year was one called Beyond Aggregation. The panel included our very own Marshall Kirkpatrick, as well as Gabe Rivera (Techmeme), Louis Gray (LouisGray.com), Melanie Baker (PostRank) an... |
| Mar 13, 2009 | ReadWriteWeb’s Guide to the SXSW Web Awards Finalists | SXSW Interactive begins today, bringing thousands of geeks from all around the world to Austin, Texas, to talk shop and party. One of the key stories about SXSW history is that Twitter blew up there (in a good way) two years ago. Everybody ... |
| Mar 5, 2009 | Lijit Delivers Single Sign-In for Multiple Accounts | The Lijit team rolled out today the ability to manage more than one widget with just one sign-in. Lijit is a combined search and statistics package for your blog rolled into a widget that’s easy to install. Today’s update has been a big req... |
| Feb 19, 2009 | ReadWriteWeb Guide to the SXSW Web Awards Finalists | Next month Austin, Texas will fill to the brim with geeks from all around the world gathered to attend the South by Southwest Interactive festival. While smaller than the Music part of SXSW, Interactive is very big and very fun. One part of... |
| Dec 22, 2008 | A Guide to The Contextual Web | It’s the end of 2008 and everyone on the Web is hurting due to the economy. But we know that things will get better, because slow-downs eventually bury the old and give birth to new evolutionary ways of doing things.
One of these evolutions... |
| Nov 10, 2008 | Look Out Google Site Search, Lijit Says It’s Right On Your Heels | Innovative search startup Lijit has done study of search widgets on pages around the web and says its widget is very close to becoming as popular as Google’s own “site search”. We think Lijit is quite interesting and we’re not surprised to ... |
| Aug 12, 2008 | Lijit Closes $7.1 Million Series C Round – Readies Advertising Network | Lijit, which provides search services to bloggers and blog networks, announced today that it has closed a $7.1 Million series C round led by Foundry Group. Lijit had raised a small Series A round in January of 2007 and a larger $3.3 million... |
| Aug 1, 2008 | Eight Ways to Get Users to Fill Out Their Profiles | “Hi, my name is MrCucumber69, I have a gray blob for a face and that’s all I care to share about myself – will you be my friend?” Silly as that sounds, this is the way users of many social web applications greet each other. It’s not very us... |
| Jun 5, 2008 | Lijit Gets Back Up To Speed, Scores Deal With b5media | Lijit, the search widget that offers bloggers a simple solution to index all of their content, has been slow for the last few months: Really. Freakin. Slow. Search results have been taking 20 seconds or more to load (though it’s unlikely th... |
| Apr 7, 2008 | Covestor | I’ve written a bunch about Covestor and I have this widget on my right sidebar that shows how my public stock portfolio is doing (not well).
As is sometimes the case with things I post about on this blog, our firm Union Square Ventures has ... |
| Jan 30, 2008 | Roundup: Return of the Gphone rumor, Current TV not so profitable after all, and more | 1) Gphone rumors return, this time implicating Dell
2) Profitable Current TV not so profitable after all
3) WSJ and Facebook cross the age boundary
4) Clearwire / Sprint WiMAX deal could return
5) Visible Path acquired by Hoover’s
6) BigSwe... |
| Jan 28, 2008 | Lijit Acquires Comment Search Engine BigSwerve | Personal search engine provider Lijit, which raised $3.3 million last July, will announced tomorrow that they have acquired BigSwerve for an undisclosed sum. BigSwerve, which was formed in 2006, has indexed more than 400 million comments fr... |
| Jan 23, 2008 | Live Semantic Service Inform.com Takes $15m Investment | Semantic analysis service Inform.comannounced today that the company has received a $15 million investment from Spark Capital. Inform analyzes content from online publishers and inserts links from a publisher’s own content archives, affilia... |
| Jan 9, 2008 | AideRSS Raises Money To Attack Information Overload | The Canadian company AideRSS produces one of my favorite tools on the market right now. Their RSS feed filtering service is very useful in all kinds of circumstances. You can enter any RSS feed and it will score each item in the feed by num... |
| Nov 26, 2007 | Why Past Performance Is A Good Predictor Of Future Returns In The Venture Capital Asset Class | I wrote a series of blog posts about venture capital fund performance on my personal weblog several weeks ago. One of the things that came out of that series is the fact that the top quartile of fund managers performs significantly better t... |
| Sep 6, 2007 | Google Custom Search: Setting The Bar For Vertical Search Engines | Google already dominates the web search market, with between approximately 55% and 65% of the market depending on who you ask.
The company’s flagship product has been responsible for its phenomenal growth and everyone knows
that Google made... |
| Jul 23, 2007 | Search Improvements On This Blog | I have made some tweaks to the way the search field on this blog works. I’ve been using Lijit for the search box for a while now and I like it.
According to Lijit, I get about 50 searches a day on this blog. That’s enough usage to try to ge... |
| Jul 11, 2007 | Just To Be Clear | On the Sicko posts, I am trying to stir up some debate, discussion, and conversation about our health care mess. I haven’t made up my mind on anything other than we can do better. So I’m in diligence mode and no I am not stopping after only... |
| Jun 26, 2007 | Lijit Takes $3.3 million Series B | Social media search company Lijit has secured $3.3 million in Series B funding.
The round was led by Boulder Ventures and joined by existing investors Colorado Fund I (High Country Venture) and Brad Feld. The round brings total funding for ... |
| Jun 25, 2007 | Lijit raises $3.3M for intimate blog search | Lijit, a provider of a more extensive search service for blogs, has said it raised a $3.3M second round of funding.
Lijit, of Louisville, Colorado, doesn’t limit readers to searching blog posts. It also provides them results from the host b... |
| Jun 25, 2007 | The Carried Interest Tax Debate (continued) | I was reviewing my Lijit stats just now. I wish I could link out to them so you can see them. I had the search term tag cloud up for a while but I felt a little foolish with a tag cloud that started out with pants, widgets suck, and widgets... |
| May 30, 2007 | CBS Buys Last.fm | I just did a search on my blog for the term "last.fm". I’ve used that term so many times that there are 16 pages of search results and that’s just for my blog posts. Clearly I’ve been obsessed by this service from the day I starte... |
| May 11, 2007 | More DoTube | I’ve been kind of quiet on the DoTube front for the past couple weeks but I wanted to tell all of you parents about a DoTube for your kids.
If you have kids under the age of ten, you probably know about the KidzBop phenomenon. It’s a collec... |
| Apr 28, 2007 | New Search Widget | When I started this blog, one of the first widgets (I didn’t even think to call them that at the time) I looked for was a "search this blog" widget. I’ve had it on the upper left sidebar from the early days of this blog.
I first w... |
| Feb 11, 2007 | Search My Network | Almost from day one, it’s been possible to search AVC (first via google, then via yahoo, now via google). The search field is on the left sidebar, above the fold. I use it all the time to find my old posts.
I assume some people use it to fi... |