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| 03.10.2015 | Don’t fail fast. Don’t fail early. Just don’t fail. | 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!
One thing that has always intrigued me about Sili... |
| 03.10.2015 | Don’t fail fast. Don’t fail early. Just don’t fail. | One thing that has always intrigued me about Silicon Valley is how easy it is here to dismiss products, investments, and sweat with the “fail fast, fast often” mindset. Sure, it enables our experimentalist culture and fast learning. But the... |
| 22.10.2014 | Why these app founders took a break from Penn to focus on ‘Down to Chill’ | Four University of Pennsylvania students took the year off to promote their mobile app. Michael Powell, Matt Wojcieszek, Adam Elkassas and Arjun Raj Jain all have taken the year off to launch Down to Chill.
“Down to Chill, simply put, is a ... |
| 26.06.2014 | First Round Capital raises a fifth, $175M fund — up from $135M in 2012 | 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!
First Round Capital today announced its fifth fun... |
| 26.06.2014 | First Round Capital raises a fifth, $175M fund — up from $135M in 2012 | First Round Capital today announced its fifth fund — a $175M round from existing limited partners.
With little surprise, the firm intends to do what it always does with new capital: make seed stage investments in the Valley (and New York).
... |
| 09.06.2014 | Firefly acquired by Pegasystems | Co-browsing startup Firefly was acquired Monday by Pegasystems, a Cambridge-based, publicly-traded enterprise software company, for an undisclosed amount, according to a release.
Founded by a pair of Penn students while they were still in s... |
| 27.01.2014 | Charlie O’Donnell announces $8.3M Brooklyn Bridge Ventures fund | Two years after launching the first investment fund based in Brooklyn, Charlie O’Donnell announced last week he finished raising a $8.3 million fund for his Brooklyn Bridge Ventures.
In that time, with $3.5 million in launch money, the firm... |
| 02.01.2014 | Josh Kopelman on the changing VC landscape | Making small chic and being at the 'vanguard' of platform and community in venture capital
It's often said that good things come in small packages. That is, by at least some measure, the case with the size of venture funds and their respect... |
| 24.10.2013 | Tech Solves Another Minor Problem with Lock-Screen Customizing ‘Cover’ | Fumbleless future.(Screencap)
Get ready to be wowed by the power of modern technology to solve very minor pain points: TechCrunch reports that a company called Cover has just raised a $1.7 million seed investment from First Round Capital. D... |
| 19.12.2012 | First Round Capital launches “common app” for its portfolio companies [Startup Roundup] | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along... |
| 11.12.2012 | Safeguard Scientifics leads $8.7M round for NYC’s AppFirst [VC Roundup] | Welcome to the VC Roundup, where we’ll parse through venture capital news related to Philadelphia-based private equity firms and the companies they fund. Subscribe to the roundup as an email newsletter. If you have any VC-related news to pa... |
| 07.12.2012 | VCs Successfully Fund Lawsuit Against Best Buy After It Completely Screws Over Startup | I recently heard a story of yet another startup which had been hit by a bogus patent troll lawsuit. As always, it would be cheaper to just settle the lawsuit than to fight it in court, even though they knew that they would win. In this case... |
| 06.12.2012 | Booting Up: Tim Cook Has Feelings Too Edition | Space! (Photo: NASA)
Tim Cook’s not sure where you all got the idea he’s robotic. [Bloomberg Businessweek]
He also confirmed Apple is bringing some manufacturing back to the U.S. No guarantees how much, though. [Bloomberg News]
Get psyched ... |
| 05.12.2012 | TechForward Wins $27M In Lawsuit Against Best Buy Over Stolen Trade Secrets | Score one for the small guys. Startup TechForward just won a huge lawsuit against electronics retailer Best Buy over misappropriated trade secrets. The judge has awarded TechForward $22 million in damages, as well as another $5 million in p... |
| 06.11.2012 | First Round Capital increases its fund by $158 million [VC Roundup] | Welcome to the VC Roundup, where we’ll parse through venture capital news related to Philadelphia-based private equity firms and the companies they fund. Subscribe to the roundup as an email newsletter. If you have any VC-related news to pa... |
| 09.10.2012 | First Round Capital Launches A Platform For Startups To Hack PR | Over the last year, early-stage venture firm First Round Capital has quietly built an arsenal of tools for its portfolio companies to connect and share resources. Now they’re adding another tool (and it’s actually open to all startups, not ... |
| 02.10.2012 | Philly’s venture capitalists are local innovators, says former Daily News editor [VC Roundup] | Welcome to the VC Roundup, where we’ll parse through venture capital news related to Philadelphia-based private equity firms and the companies they fund. Subscribe to the roundup as an email newsletter. If you have any VC-related news to pa... |
| 27.09.2012 | 12 Tips To Building A Successful Startup Community Where You Live | Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Mark Suster (@msuster), a 2x entrepreneur, now VC at GRP Partners. He publishes more frequently over on his blog BothSidesoftheTable
Recently I wrote a post arguing to make the definition of a startup ... |
| 24.09.2012 | Dorm Room Fund: $500k pilot from First Round Capital for college startups | Early-stage First Round Capital has announced this morning the launch of its Dorm Room Fund, a $500,000 pilot investment fund run by and for college student entrepreneurs that will make small investments to college-bound startups, often bel... |
| 20.09.2012 | “In the Studio,” Kent Goldman Discusses First Round Capital’s Platform Approach | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah is an EIR with Javelin Venture Partners. You can follow him on Twitter at @semil
“In the Studio” continues after last week’s Disrupt conference by hosting a guest who, after various stints in finance, venture capit... |
| 20.08.2012 | Sounds Boring, Actually Awesome. Sherpaa Raises $1.8M To Find Your Business Cheap Health Insurance | Health insurance is the second biggest cost for businesses behind payroll, but picking the best plan is a nightmare. That’s why Sherpaa just raised $1.85 million to make the decision for you, cut your costs, and keep your employees healthy.... |
| 15.08.2012 | First Round Capital to relocate HQ to University City from West Conshohocken | Welcome to Philadelphia, First Round Capital.
One of the more respected early-stage investment firms in the country, the longtime West Conshohocken-based venture group is opening a 10,000 sq.ft. office in University City mid-September, mana... |
| 14.08.2012 | 60% of venture-backed companies have more than one investor [VC Roundup] | Welcome to the VC Roundup, where we’ll parse through venture capital news related to Philadelphia-based private equity firms and the companies they fund. Subscribe to the roundup as an email newsletter. If you have any VC-related news to pa... |
| 15.05.2012 | First Round Capital closes $135 million fund, Audience Partners and Agilence raise private equity rounds [VC Roundup] | Welcome to the VC Roundup, where we’ll parse through venture capital news related to Philadelphia-based private equity firms and the companies they fund. Subscribe to the roundup as an email newsletter. If you have any VC-related news to pa... |
| 09.05.2012 | First Round seals the deal on a new $135M fund | 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!
First Round Capital has just finished raising its... |
| 09.05.2012 | First Round Capital Closes Another $135M Fund, Bumps Up Phineas Barnes, Kent Goldman To Partner Level | Two big pieces of news today for First Round Capital — a sign of more growth, and more opportunities, at the early-stage VC firm: the company has closed on another fund, and it has created two new partners, Phineas Barnes and Kent Goldman. ... |
| 10.04.2012 | Mayor Nutter considers tax breaks for venture firms [VC Roundup] | Welcome to the VC Roundup, where we’ll parse through venture capital news related to Philadelphia-based private equity firms and the companies they fund. Subscribe to the roundup as an email newsletter. If you have any VC-related news to pa... |
| 07.04.2012 | The Future Of Content: Content Is The Future | Editor’s note: Contributor Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of WatchMojo, he hosts a show on business and has published books on success. Follow him @ashkan.
“I thought the analysis of content vs other video companies very convi... |
| 22.02.2012 | Villanova University part of $2.4m grant to inspire engineering entrepreneurs, PalmLing launches demo [Startup Roundup] | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along... |
| 08.02.2012 | Gumroad Gets $1.1 Million From Chris Sacca, Max Levchin And Others To Turn Any Link Into A Payment System | Gumroad, the buzzy one-man startup launched by Pinterest and Turntable app designer (and 19-year-old college dropout) Sahil Lavingia, officially launches today with over $1.1 million in seed funding from investors Accel Partners, Chris Sacc... |
| 23.01.2012 | I’d Rather Watch Instagram Than A Movie | Last week a friend of mine asked me at brunch, innocently enough, “What’s Instagram, and why do you use it?”
I meekly offered the answer, “It’s a way to share photos via the iPhone,” and then, feeling like I hadn’t done it enough justice, w... |
| 17.01.2012 | Former First Round Capital Principal Charlie O’Donnell Launches Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, a Seed Stage Fund | via BrooklynBridgeVentures.com
On his blog this morning, New York City tech stalwart Charlie O’Donnell announced the creation of a new seed investment fund called Brooklyn Bridge Ventures. Mr. O’Donnell, who used to bike the 9.2 miles from ... |
| 27.11.2011 | “Will It End Very Badly?” Probably Not. | Editor’s Note: Guest contributor and early TechCrunch writer Steve Poland (@popo) currently is exploring raising a fund to join the “overcrowded” early stage investment market. His last contribution was The New Early-Adopter Addiction: Turn... |
| 18.11.2011 | Here In Silicon Valley, Are We Killing Jobs And Making The Rich Richer? | Editor’s note: Adam Rodnitzky is a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Favo.rs. Rodnitzky is based in San Francisco and you can follow him on twitter @rodtwitzky.
As the Occupy Wall Street movement keeps growing, many of the issues raised... |
| 15.11.2011 | Is Adapt.ly the next great DreamIt Ventures company? [VC Roundup] | Welcome to the VC Roundup, where we’ll parse through venture capital news related to Philadelphia-based private equity firms and the companies they fund. Subscribe to the roundup as an email newsletter. If you have any VC-related news to pa... |
| 12.11.2011 | Can Content Producers Be Disruptors Or Is Content Only Meant To Be Disrupted? | Editor’s note: Contributor Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of WatchMojo. Follow him @ashkan.
Why is content such a dirty word in venture capital? We have seen a few generations of technology entrepreneurs and investors, but the... |
| 20.09.2011 | Top 10 best Philadelphia entrepreneurship blogs | Entrepreneurs of today have the distinct advantage of sharing online widely their experiences and thoughts on building businesses.
In Philadelphia, that’s certainly the case, so we at Technically Philly got to wondering just what entreprene... |
| 04.09.2011 | The Complete Guide To Freemium Business Models | Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Uzi Shmilovici, CEO and founder of Future Simple, which creates online software for small businesses. The post is based on a study done with Professor Eric Budish, an economics professor at the ... |
| 19.04.2011 | VC roundup: Comcast invests in Flipboard, FRC could have invested in Twitter | Welcome to the VC Round-up, where we’ll parse through venture capital news related to Philadelphia-based private equity firms and the companies they fund. Subscribe to the roundup as an email newsletter. If you have any VC-related news to p... |
| 19.01.2011 | The Top 20 VC Power Bloggers Of 2010 | A lot of venture capitalists and super angels are not only active investors, but also active bloggers. Below is a list of the top 20 VC power bloggers as compiled by Larry Cheng of Volition Capital based on traffic data from Compete. The me... |
| 01.11.2010 | Hottest Stealth Startups [Graphic] | Rumors of “the death of stealth mode” have been greatly exaggerated. Ever since angel investor Chris Dixon tweeted, “New early-stage start up trend: get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors” back in March you can’t grab a... |
| 09.09.2010 | Super Angel v. VC SMACKDOWN, Part 4: Is Silicon Valley Getting Disrupted? (TCTV) | Ding, ding! It’s round four of our Super Angel v. VC SMACKDOWN. Both of our pugilist Davids live and work in Silicon Valley. Given that today’s topic is about whether or not the heft of East Coast Super Angels like Josh Kopelman, Chris Dixo... |
| 04.09.2010 | Stealth Mode Watch: Another Nail In The Coffin Of "Stealth" | Stealth Mode Watch, a searchable data spider of often very revealing SEC form D filings, is the brain child of Denis Papathanasiou, who came up with the idea while researching funding options (a.k.a spying) for his ebooks startup Fifobooks,... |
| 24.08.2010 | VC Roundup: The ECI gets press, First Round “likes” last week | Welcome to the VC Roundup, where we’ll parse through venture capital news related to Philadelphia-based private equity firms and the companies they fund. Subscribe to the roundup as an email newsletter. If you have any VC-related news to pa... |
| 23.08.2010 | The expanding birthrate of Web startups | Y Combinator, Techstars and Seedcamp are having an impact
There is a general consensus that Web startups are being created at a faster rate than ever. The impact of accelerator programs like Y Combinator, TechStars, Seedcamp, and dozens mor... |
| 22.08.2010 | The Expanding Birthrate Of Web Startups | There is a general consensus that web startups are being created at a faster rate than ever. The impact of accelerator programs like Y Combinator, Techstars, Seedcamp, and dozens more are one factor. The expanding pool of angel, seed, and s... |
| 20.07.2010 | “I Got a Guy” | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
A friend of mine likes to make fun of me because I often say: “I got a guy.” You want to find the healthcare plan to fit your needs? I got a guy. Need your apartment cleaned? ... |
| 21.05.2010 | Market for Location-Based Services is Heating Up for Startups | Sure, it may be obvious to point out that location-based services (LBS) are growing in popularity and may be a great gravy train for young entrepreneurs to hop on, but the recent evolution of the platform has broadened the opportunities for... |
| 19.05.2010 | Location apps that control your heaters are coming with Google’s Latitude API | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Google has paved the way for all sorts of interesting personal apps based on location, and today it launched a new application programm... |
| 23.04.2010 | Friday Q&A: Josh Kopelman of First Round Capital | Josh Kopelman is angry.
When Technically Philly pops into his office, the normally cheery venture capitalist is busy trying to figure out why First Round Capital’s email service is down.
“They say six minutes of downtime,” he says. “but the... |
| 17.04.2010 | Thanks to the #ash, a rare opportunity for startups to meet a legendary VC firm in London | The ash cloud over Europe is proving a nightmare and a boon for some startups. It’s certainly a nightmare for startup teams traveling to events, like GeeknRolla on Tuesday. (And on that note, please now follow @GeeknRolla where we will shar... |
| 14.03.2010 | Commerce 2.0? | I cringed when I used the "2.0" term in the headline of this post, but I think it's useful. In the past year, when people ask me what I think is interesting in web technology, I often talk about emerging new commerce models. And I... |
| 02.03.2010 | VC Roundup: GoodCompany goes to NYC, ETF changes name | Welcome to the VC Round-up, where we’ll parse through venture capital news related to Philadelphia-based private equity firms and the companies they fund. Subscribe to the roundup as an email newsletter. If you have any VC-related news to p... |
| 16.02.2010 | VC Roundup: Packlate.com raises cash, DreamIt teams up with NYC accelerator | Welcome to the VC Round-up, where we’ll parse through venture capital news related to Philadelphia-based private equity firms and the companies they fund. Subscribe to the roundup as an email newsletter. If you have any VC-related news to p... |
| 29.01.2010 | First Round Capital Gives Entrepreneurs A Way To Get In On The Portfolio Action | In case it wasn’t obvious, being an entrepreneur is risky business. Even those that get investments have a relatively small likelihood of a successful exit. So early-stage investment firm First Round Capital has a plan to alleviate some of ... |
| 29.01.2010 | First Round lets funded entrepreneurs exchange equity | First Round Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm, launched an exchange yesterday that allows the entrepreneurs they fund to pool and hold small amounts of equity in each others’ companies.
It’s a pretty unusual move that would allow... |
| 29.01.2010 | First Round lets funded entrepreneurs exchange equity | 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!
First Round Capital, an early-stage venture capit... |
| 14.01.2010 | The Top Ten VC Blogs (New And Improved) | Every so often, venture capitalist Larry Cheng puts out a list of the top VC blogs. Previously, he ranked the blogs by how many subscribers they have on Google Reader. But now he’s changed his methodology and is ranking them by average mont... |
| 02.10.2009 | Links: Alex Hillman and Kelly Lee spar, the Baltimore tech scene and More | DEFINITE READS
The Inquirer jumps into the fray of criticism lobbed at Innovation Philadelphia and their Global Creative Economy Convergence Summit by Independents Hall co-working co-founder Alex Hillman, most notably through a lengthy post... |
| 01.10.2009 | Would First Round Capital move to New York City? | West Conshohocken and San Fransisco-based First Round Capital has announced it will be opening a new office in the 67th Ward.
Managing Director Josh Kopelman has made no secret about the firm’s affinity for the Big Apple, citing the success... |
| 08.09.2009 | The Top 20 VC Bloggers (September 2009) | When it comes to lists of top VCs, one of our favorites is the top VC bloggers. Larry Cheng, a partner at Fidelity Ventures, started keeping just such a list last May, based on how many subscribers each VC blogger has on Google Reader. This... |
| 19.08.2009 | Here comes the virtual goods bubble | As ad-based biz models lose lustre, a new monetization panacaea for digital media has emerged.
“Whereas last year all the business plans I saw said, ‘We’re ads-based,’ today, it’s ‘We’re virtual goods-based!’” says Tim Chang of Norwest Vent... |
| 19.06.2009 | What’s next: a Mint for your physical location? | I don’t mean to scare you, but there’s a faceless entity that knows you better than your friends, your spouse, and even you: your technology. As the Internet and phones weave into your life, they know your purchases, tastes, friends, messag... |
| 30.05.2009 | The Top VC Blogs (According To Google Reader) | Venture capitalists can be valuable sources of information about the tech community. Not only do they have quality insider information but they also have a knack for figuring out how to evaluate startups. So it makes sense that their blogs ... |
| 29.04.2009 | 10 lessons from a failed startup | A year and a half ago, my co-founder Dev Nag and I started an internet TV network for games called PlayCafe. Our ambitious plan was to run highly interactive game shows in which everyone was a contestant. Players could watch our hosts, answ... |
| 29.11.2008 | Trading Analog Dollars For Digital Pennies | Jeff Zucker, head of NBC Universal, was famously quoted earlier this year warning that the media industry had to work so "that we do not end up trading analog dollars for digital pennies."
It’s a great line and an even better obse... |
| 17.11.2008 | iPhone Apps Aren't iPod Songs | The post of the day comes from Andy Finnell who writes that iPhone app developers must abandon the $0.99 price that many apps are selling for these days.
Andy calculates that a developer who wants to make a living off an iPhone app (at $40k... |
| 31.07.2008 | The Hidden Costs Of Micropayments Go Beyond The Penny Gap | For as far back as I can remember, there have always been folks who insist that micropayments are the solution to the “free” content question. That is, they believe that the solution to “free” content is to set up a system where content can... |
| 17.07.2008 | Roundup: EBay looks shaky, NPR’s API, the Spoken Web, and more | EBay revenue rises, but stock price sinks — Despite a 22 percent increase in second-quarter profit, eBay is failing to convince investors that it knows what it’s doing. EBay’s earnings were buoyed by its online payments and advertising divi... |
| 22.05.2008 | For Some Startups, Blog Coverage Really Matters | Today, I came across a site from Red Hat called Mugshot that neither I nor Sarah Perez had ever heard of. Mugshot is an open source lifestream aggregation service that went overlooked in our list of 35 such sites last February (though it wa... |
| 30.03.2008 | Uncertainty | I’ve been having a running debate with Henry Blodget in the comments section of this Alley Insider post on their effort to create a list of the "World’s 25 Most Valuable Startups". I think these lists are dumb (including the SA100... |
| 08.02.2008 | When Facebook Ads Go Wrong | Social ads have social consequences. Josh Kopelman, Managing Director of VC firm First Round Capital, recently found that out. Kopelman, a very savvy web 2.0 investor who got in early with StumbleUpon, Odeo, LinkedIn, and others, tried an e... |
| 07.02.2008 | Amazon Quietly Launches Product Ads; Secretly Wants to Become a Shopping Search Engine. | Sometimes I think that Amazon secretly wants to get out of the physical retailing business. It gets much higher margins from selling digital goods, or from collecting an affiliate fee from any sales it directs to an third-party Amazon Merch... |
| 06.02.2008 | Some Data On The Coming Employee Exodus at MSFT/YHOO | Josh Kopelman is a very clever guy. After the Microsoft bid for Yahoo! was announced, he restarted a Facebook ad campaign targeting Yahoo! and Microsoft employees. And guess what, the click rate increased dramatically for both companies.
He... |
| 31.01.2008 | Redfin Continues To Shrink The Real Estate Market | Venture capitalist Josh Kopelman has stated that he likes startups that shrink markets – “We love investing in technologies and business models that are able to shrink existing markets. If your company can take $5 of revenue from a competit... |
| 22.10.2007 | 2007 Web 2.0 Summit Review: How the Web 2.0 Conference Has Evolved Over 2 Years | Last week I attended the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. This is the third year running I’ve attended – I went to the 2005 Web 2.0 Conference in October 2005, the 2006 Web 2.0 Summit in November 2006 (it was re-named the “Summit” at that p... |
| 17.09.2007 | Reinventing the Series A | [This is an Op-Ed piece by Ted Wang, an attorney at Fenwick & West, a Silicon Valley law firm]
There is a new breed of Series A financings. For a number of reasons as described by Josh Kopelman among others, founders are increasing look... |
| 09.07.2007 | Bay Partners Launches Facebook-Apps-Only Fund | Here’s another indication of the importance of the new Facebook platform: Silicon Valley VC fund Bay Partners has earmarked millions of dollars for investments in startups creating applications for Facebook. The new program, called AppFacto... |
| 13.06.2007 | Openads Opensource project Raises $5 million | Openads, the developer of a popular seven year old opensource ad server, have spun out of London based ad network Unanimis and raised $5 million in capital to fund their business. The round was led by Index Ventures, with participation from... |
| 13.06.2007 | Open Ads Receives $5 Million VC Investment | As has been reported in TechCrunch and on other places this morning, Open Ads has received a $5 million VC investment led by Index Ventures. The other firms participating included First Round Capital, Mangrove Capital Partners, and OÄôReil... |
| 29.05.2007 | Point Counterpoint | Josh Kopelman on why companies should develop apps for Facebook instead of MySpace.
Scott Heiferman on why companies should be wary of building apps on Facebook.
And both use mid 90s companies (Prodigy and AOL) to make their points. |
| 28.05.2007 | Does Facebook Spell Trouble for MySpace Widgets? | Yesterday venture capitalist Josh Kopelman unleashed a diatribe ripping into MySpace and praising Facebook for the recent move to open up and become a platform for widget developers. Kopelman estimates there there has been $250 million doll... |
| 27.05.2007 | MySpace v. Facebook: "It's Not A Decision. It's an IQ Test" | Venture capitalist Josh Kopelman rips into MySpace today as he applauds Facebook’s new developer platform.
Facebook’s timing is perfect. They just released an API that gives third party developers deep access to Facebook functionality and i... |
| 07.05.2007 | Top 17 Search Innovations Outside Of Google | Written by Nitin Karandikar
There are an abundance of new search engines (100+ at last count ) – each pioneering some innovation in search technology. Here is a list of the top 17 innovations that, in our opinion, will prove disruptivein th... |
| 14.03.2007 | Reckoning Day For Venture Capitalists? | Some venture capitalists are known for making speedy decisions, communicating clearly, treating portfolio companies fairly, and guiding their startups to a win for all stakeholders.
Others, not so much. Some even lob the odd (friendly) jab ... |
| 12.03.2007 | In Defense of Free (continued) | I’ve been a fan of business models that start with free. I have found that is the best way to build a significant uptake on the web. That doesn’t mean you’ll never have any revenues. There are many ways to get paid for a web service that is... |
| 28.12.2006 | 2007: The Implicit Web | My partner Brad and I were at lunch with Josh Kopelman a month or so ago and we got to talking about a number of exciting new web services we are seeing and Josh blurted out "web 2.0 is the explicit web and web 3.0 is the implicit web&... |
| 30.11.2006 | Jingle's Free 411 Service Hits 100 Million calls | Jingle’s free 411 service has announced that users have now placed over 100 million 411 calls.
The company, which we profiled in October 2005, has raised over $60 million in capital to date, has taken over 3% of the U.S. 411 market.
We inte... |
| 11.11.2006 | Hacking Web 2.0 | I guess everyone who went to the web 2.0 conference this week (I couldn’t make it due to a board conflict) knows this but I just found out about it and I love it so much I want to blog about it.
First Round Capital hacked the web 2.0 confer... |
| 01.11.2006 | Charles River Ventures Goes For Angel Market | On Wednesday Charles River Ventures will announce a new project called “Quick Start” (link should be live in the next few hours) which is designed break away from traditional venture capital investing models and get small amounts of capital... |
| 01.11.2006 | More On CRV QuickStart | Josh Kopelman, a well known early stage investor who we have co-invested with successfully, has a good post up on CRV Quickstart. He points out some of the issues with larger funds doing seed investing. While Josh’s points are good ones, I ... |
| 01.11.2006 | Charles River Ventures introduces friendly “convertible” seed round | Updated
Charles River Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm, has launched a new investment strategy, offering rapid but tiny $250,000 checks to Internet start-ups.
The program, called QuickStart, recognizes times have changed, and t... |
| 01.09.2006 | Tim Berners-Lee on Web 2.0: “nobody even knows what it means” | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| 13.08.2006 | Going ape over MySpace; Browster’s new release | Start-ups, and the venture capitalists who back them, are going ape over the MySpace ecosystem.
They’ve seen how MySpace helped push YouTube and Photobucket into leaders. Now MySpace is even bigger, and its users can annoint new winners: Th... |
| 02.08.2006 | Silicon Valley roundup: Khosla debunked?, Pincus censored, YouTube ain’t that big, more | Here’s the latest news for Silicon Valley tech-money crowd:
The Dead 2.0 blog — In case you haven’t seen it yet, here’s the Dead 2.0 blog, we’ve seen referenced a few times. It says we let Jobster off the hook.
Top Digg.com user going for $... |
| 19.07.2006 | Web 2.0 investor Rob Hayes joins First Round Capital | Venture capitalist Rob Hayes, 39 has joined First Round Capital, a venture firm that invests mostly in early-stage Web 2.0 companies. He has just left Omidyar Network, the venture firm founded by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar. Rob will be bas... |
| 26.06.2006 | Silicon Valley roundup — Danger, the Accel two-step, Attributor & more | Can Danger finally reach the masses with Sidekick? — The Palo Alto company has gotten buzz by marketing its previous Sidekick devices to celebrities like Paris Hilton, but they never really sold like hot pancakes. Now it is releasing its la... |
| 16.05.2006 | AOL to Release YouTube Clone | Prepare for the launch of AOL UnCut (currently in open beta), a near perfect clone of YouTube. The service is powered by Video Egg (see Josh Kopelman for more).
Videos of up to 5 minutes can be uploaded to the service, and they are then con... |
| 16.05.2006 | The 53,651 Meme — and the Silicon Valley geek echo chamber | Brother Love
The “53651 meme” took flight this past weekend, fueled by a post from Josh Kopelman.
Kopelman, the East Coast angel investor (who we recently mentioned here) says Silicon Valley Web 2.0 startups have fallen into a trap of appea... |