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It's Easy Eating Green
A group of 4 young entrepreneurs join the progressive ventures springing up in lower Manhattan, when they decide to open a 97% green restaurant in Battery Park. A group of 4 young entrepreneurs join the progressive ventures springing up in lower Manhattan, when they decide to open a 97% green r... more
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Scraping: A Powerful -- But Risky -- Business Strategy
Interesting article on the pro's and con's of web giants letting startups use their information freely... including an interesting example of Craigslist vs. start-up Listpic and the possible hope of API's as a healthy compromise. In the end it's evident that the "supplier" of data has the last word but they may not always realize how the products of scraping can boost their business. Interesting article on the pro's and con's of web giants letting startups use their information freely... including an inter... more
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20 worst VC investments of all time
See full details here, but heres the quick list:
1. Ampd Mobile: $360 million raised, ended in bankruptcy.
2. Procket: $272 million, sold for $89 million.
3. Webvan: Valued at $1.2 billion, went bankrupt in 2001. Ate through $800 million in venture capital, ended with $830 million in losses.
4. Caspian Networks: >$300 million in funding, closed doors.
5. Pets.com: $50 million from Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
, Bowman Capital, and Amazon.com Inc., did sock-puppet ads, then crashed.
6. Optiva: $41.5 million, crashed.
7. Kozmo.com: $250 million, liquidated.
8. CueCat: $185 million from investors like The Coca-Cola Co. and General Electric Co., bombed.
9. DeNovis Inc.: $125 million, closed.
10. PointCast Inc.: Tens of millions of dollars in venture capital and a $400 million buy offer, then sold for $7 million.
11. eToys: Backed by VC firms Idealab
, Highland Capital Partners
and Sequoia Capital
, ended in bankruptcy.
12. AllAdvantage: $135 million in venture capital down the drain.
13. FastForward: $54 million into the company, bankrupt.
14. Xoma: This 26-year old company has not earned a profit since its inception in 1981. [Update: This one should be taken off the list. It entered the black for the first time two weeks ago!]
15. Flooz.com: $50 million, went broke.
16. Vanguarde Media Inc.: $60 million in VC funding, went under.
17. Pixelon.com: $16 million not remarkable, but burned through with remarkable style.
18. Bolt Media Inc.: >$60 million in venture backing, shut down.
19. DigiScents: $20 million in investment, shut down.
20. Boo.com: $120 million, went bust. See full details here, but heres the quick list: 1. Ampd Mobile: $360 million raised, ended in bankruptcy. ... more -
Happy 1st Anniversary YouTube and Google; Now Move Over a Bit
Time for another roundup, and this one coincides with a notable first-year anniversary: that of Googles $1.65 billion acquisition of YouTube, confirmed on October 9th, 2006.
Since then, the name YouTube has become virtually synonymous with online video sharing. According to Comscore, the website maintains a sizable lead over competitors with 205,593,000 unique visitors per month. Second-place Yahoo Video trails with 48,026,000 visitors. But must YouTube remain the clear winner in the online video space? While they have certainly captured the largest audience - which may in the end be all they had needed to do to secure their position - we shouldnt underestimate the many other companies vying for mindshare.
These are the services we looked at: blip.tv, Brightcove.tv, ClipShack, Crackle, DailyMotion, Sony eyeVio, Google Video, Megavideo, Metacafe, Motionbox, Revver, Spike (ifilm), Stage6, Veoh, Viddler, Vimeo, Yahoo Video, and YouTube. Time for another roundup, and this one coincides with a notable first-year anniversary: that of Googles $1.65 billion acquisition of ... more -
Report: Bay Area Web 2.0 deals slow as global deals surge
Investors directed at least $464.2 million into 101 Web 2.0 deals worldwide in the first half of the year, according to a report released Monday.
While the Bay Area lost some ground, Sequoia Capital and Draper Fisher Jurvetson -- which both have offices in Menlo Park -- were the most active investors on a worldwide basis so far.
Israeli Web 2.0 companies had their best showing in the first half of 2007 Investors directed at least $464.2 million into 101 Web 2.0 deals worldwide in the first half of the year, according to a report relea... more -
RippleTV -- news and info while you wait!
Check out this new start-up -- they bring RSS feeds of news and info to a cool flatscreen graphic at coffee shops etc...
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Frat House Tycoons
How cool would it be to turn your bachelor pad/frat-style house into a successful internet start-up? Meetro, which started out of a messy home, has outgrown its humble beginnings. Check it out in this pod. How cool would it be to turn your bachelor pad/frat-style house into a successful internet start-up? Meetro, which started out of a me... more
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Israels Kontera Nails $10.3 Million Second Round From Sequoia And Others
Kontera, an Israel startup (although their official headquarters is in San Francisco), is cashing in on the full-on bonanza around anything that calls itself an advertising network right now.
A year ago they raised $7 million from Sequoia Capital and Lehman Brothers. Tomorrow theyll announce a second round of financing - $10.3 million more from Carmel Ventures, an Israeli venture firm. Sequoia and Lehman are also participating.
Konteras main product is in-text advertising. Theyll take popular keywords within the text of an article and put double lines below them to signify its an advertisement. Clicking on it generates cash for the publisher. A demo of the product is here. In the press release a customer claims to be seeing 10% click through rates from the ads. Kontera, an Israel startup (although their official headquarters is in San Francisco), is cashing in on the full-on bonanza around any... more -
i like saying VoIP
so SunRocket calls it quits and another startup gives it a try...
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