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2011 Prediction: Lots of Innovation Around Money
Paypal has led the way by opening up its platform but there will be lots of startups focused on digital money in its many forms in 2011. Making payments easier and secure is a very bid deal. If you look into the history of the world, there were many times when innovation around money resulted ...
Gigseen.tv Aims At Archives Of Live Performances
While in the UK I met with Neil Reed, one of the founders of Gigseen.tv (above), and San Francisco based music industry consultant John Coon, who specializes in music licensing. Gigseen is planning its launch in the spring of 2011 with a video streaming service showing archives of live gigs — from fairly recent ones, ...
Reports That Yahoo Will Shutter Curation Service Delicious As Curation Gets Hot
Alexia Tsotsis at Techcrunch and Liz Gannes at AllThingsD are reporting that Yahoo is shutting down several services: Former Yahoo employee and Upcoming founder Andy Baio has tweeted out . . . that Yahoo! is either closing or merging the social bookmarking service as well as Upcoming, Fire Eagle, MyBlogLog and others. And: Products on ...
Paris: Le Web Conference, And European Startups
The Le Web conference in Paris was very good. Loic Le Meur and his team pulled off a great two-day show with lots of good content. It was better than last year’s Le Web, imho because there wasn’t as many Americans and European and other entrepreneurs were able to talk about their businesses. The format ...
VCWatch: VCs Increasingly OK With Founders Taking Early Liquidity
Paris: There was a fascinating VC panel at Le Web moderated by Travis Kalanick, an angel investor; with Jeff Clavier of SoftTech VC, one of SIlicon Valley’s most successful VCs; Philippe Botteri from Besssemer Venture Partners; Bernard Liautaud from Balderton Capital; and Barry Silbert, CEO and founder of SecondMarket. Here are some of my notes ...
Russian Billionaire Investment Firm Says Groupon Was Right To Reject Google
Paris: Alexander Tamas, partner at Digital Sky Technologies (DST), a major investor in Facebook, Twitter, Zynga, and Groupon, defended Groupon’s rejection of Google’s acquisition bid saying that it could become one of the most important companies on the Internet. Mr Tamas was speaking at the Le Web conference in Paris. He said that there are ...
Curation Becomes Social: Pearltrees Launches ‘Team’ Version
[For much of this year I have been working with Pearltrees, which offers a visual web site curation service based on the visual metaphor of ‘pearls’ please see below for an example.] Pearltrees this week launched a “Team” version of its curation service that allows groups of people to collaborate on curating a topic. Up ...
Coping With The Engineer Shortage: Learn Some Code
There’s lots of competition for top engineers in SIlicon Valley fueled by the giants such as Google, Facebook, Zynga, etc. Connie Loizos at PEHUB reports: "Right now, startups are either having to pay more, relocate people [to work for them], or go the [H-1B] visa route [allowing companies to temporarily employ foreign workers]," says Chuck ...
Has News Site TechPulse 360 Bit The Dust?
TechPulse360 is, or was, a daily news site focused on tech and clean tech, run by Mark Boslet, a former journalist at San Jose Mercury News, and Jean-Baptise Su, a veteran Silicon Valley correspondent for numerous publications. TechPulse 360 is about two years old. Its most recent entry was more than one month ago: http://techpulse360.com/2010/10/26/video-paypal-ceo-absolutely-no-plans-to-go-ipo/ ...
Mary Meeker’s Move To VC – And The Lack Of Wall Street Analysts
Mary Meeker, one of the top Wall Street analysts, has moved to Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers from Morgan Stanley. Sarah Lacy reports: Chegg’s CEO Dan Rosensweig was one of many pinging Meeker with congratulatory notes this morning during my call with Meeker, Doerr and fellow KP partner Ted Schlein. He described it as “huge ...