The advertising network arena is ramping up at heart pounding speed and will inevitably end in big valuation buyouts and massive consolidation by the four horseman of the Internet and smaller mid-sized players. VentureBeat reported moments ago Adbrite raised another $23 million in third round (series C) funding from Sequoia Capital. If your not familiar [...]
Verizon opens the infamous network. This may just be an effort to combat Google’s android project. As you remember Android is the official name everyone suspected would be the G-phone (which Google vehemently despised the name). Android is a linux phone that will run open apps on an open network and is part of the [...]
An awesome spreadsheet by TechCrunch based on an inquiry to Comscore regarding data for social networks from October 2006 to October 2007 and percentage change.
TechCrunch also has a nice founding timeline and funding amount per company. Enjoy!
World of Warcraft is going mobile (yeah….will it work…I know). Vello is a well funded Israeli startup I reported early this year… it was founded in 2005. It took a second round (series B) of financing of 7.5 million this fall from Benchmark Partners and Blue-run partners. Supposedly World of Warcraft has [...]
Million dollar bill…WOW…stupidity apparently knows no bounds. I first came across this story in the early AM on Yahoo’s front page but then later found a more obscure but interesting piece over at Dave and Thomas about what a real million dollar bill should look like (now that is sweet). Hat tip to the boys [...]
Business valuations are typically done through a multiple of a company’s EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization). The multiple is based on an industry average and recent merger and acquisition data. Typically technology multiples could be in the 10-15x EBITDA range. However, this approach should be used only as an average [...]
This is a hysterical spoof of the Facebook News Network. Laugh out loud funny. I scored this at collegehumor.com via Oliver Thylmann’s blog. We definitely live in a facebook world.
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see” – Henry David Thoreau
We all strive to be better entrepreneurs and these 8 strategies should help:
1. Don’t be afraid to take risks that are associated with the proper rewards, weigh the pros and cons before you spend a dime.
2. Learn to balance work [...]
The Zune is beating the ipod at least on Amazon.com according to Valleywag
This is obviously a bit misleading because the statistic on Amazon as a digital media player of choice is only a snapshot in time. One only needs to look at overall market share of the portable digital music player to see ipod has [...]
We all know getting attention to stakeholders (money, customers, talent, media exposure) in a newly formed startup is always a challenge. One of the most creative pitches I have read or heard about in recent months was from Mark Kern, president and chief executive of online videogame maker Red 5 Studios Inc (WSJ article here). [...]
