April 2007

ClearForest exit shines light on text analytics startups [Posted on April 30, 2007 - 3:26 PM]

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Reuters is purchasing text analytics startup ClearForest for an undisclosed amount of money. The undisclosed price suggests that ClearForest's investors didn't make out too well in this deal. Shareholders... Continue Reading

Yahoo makes right move with Right Media [Posted on April 30, 2007 - 3:00 PM]

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Only weeks after being attacked again for passing on Facebook last year, Yahoo has answered its critics and addressed one of its most glaring weaknesses. The company's $680 million... Continue Reading

NBC/GE VC fund the latest media entrant [Posted on April 20, 2007 - 1:53 PM]

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A new $250 million venture capital fund announced earlier this week by GE and NBCU joins a crowded filed of media companies targeting early stage startups. As The Deal's... Continue Reading

Beyond Second Life: Club Penguin, Gaia & Areae [Posted on April 19, 2007 - 4:35 PM]

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Charles River Ventures' Susan Wu (pictured at right) moderated a revealing panel on virtual worlds yesterday afternoon at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. It was the first... Continue Reading

@Web2Expo: Lightspeed Ventures' Jeremy Liew on IPO dreams [Posted on April 19, 2007 - 3:00 AM]

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Lightspeed Venture Partners' Jeremy Liew elaborated on his previous analysis showing how exceptional a media or e-commerce startup must be before even pondering an IPO. During a presentation at... Continue Reading

@Web2Expo: Gina Bianchini compares Ning to a party [Posted on April 18, 2007 - 12:51 AM]

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Gina Bianchini, CEO of social networking platform Ning, compares a good social network to a good party. The host needs to keep the guests constantly entertained and introduce them... Continue Reading

@Web2Expo: Social networking still in the early stages [Posted on April 18, 2007 - 12:16 AM]

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The Social Networking panel at the Web 2.0 Expo this afternoon was split on whether the social networking wars are over. Gina Bianchini of Ning compared social networking to... Continue Reading

@Web2Expo: Accel is to Facebook as CRV could be to Geni [Posted on April 17, 2007 - 3:41 PM]

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Without Web 2.0 companies completing IPOs, the only evidence of bubble claims is overpriced venture capital financings. And no round this year is considered to be more overpriced than... Continue Reading

Yardbarker raises seed funding from KPCB's Siegelman, redesigns site [Posted on April 17, 2007 - 3:31 AM]

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Yarbarker, a social sports news and opinion web site, said this week it has raised seed funding from an impressive lineup of angel investors. Russell Siegelman, a partner at... Continue Reading

@Web2Expo: Michael Eisenberg's Google Envy [Posted on April 17, 2007 - 2:56 AM]

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Far away in Israel, you would think Benchmark Capital's Michael Eisenberg would be insulated from Silicon Valley biggie Google. But, the venture capitalist explained during the Venture Capital 2.0... Continue Reading

@Web2Expo: Kopelman's 'Necessary but not Sufficient' Rule [Posted on April 17, 2007 - 2:39 AM]

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Last May, First Round Capital's Josh Kopelman caused a stir in the blogosphere when he wrote "too many companies are targeting an audience of 53, 651." He was referring... Continue Reading

@Web2Expo: TechMeme mystery solved, kind of [Posted on April 16, 2007 - 4:21 PM]

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After the Media 2.0 panel held this morning at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, I asked Memeorandum proprietor Gabe Rivera why he hasn't expanded his platform to... Continue Reading

@Web2Expo: Metacafe CEO ponders online video challenges [Posted on April 16, 2007 - 4:02 PM]

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Metacafe CEO Eric Hachenburg pondered the challenges facing online video sharing web sites during an informative panel on Internet video this morning at the Web 2.0 Expo in San... Continue Reading

@Web2Expo: 'The Internet is destroying journalism' [Posted on April 16, 2007 - 3:46 PM]

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At least that's what Topix.net co-founder Rich Skrenta suggested on the Media 2.0 panel this morning at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. He said that print advertising... Continue Reading

Kleiner Perkins partner predicts billion dollar cleantech IPOs on the way [Posted on April 13, 2007 - 7:19 PM]

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Get ready for the billion dollar clean technology IPO. Randy Komisar, a general partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, predicted last week that the exit market for renewable... Continue Reading

Google buying DoubleClick for $3.1 billion; Eric Schmidt's thoughts [Posted on April 13, 2007 - 6:11 PM]

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Calling in from Argentina where he was opening up a new office, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said the company's proposed $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick carries the following benefits... Continue Reading

Socializr, the "un-startup" [Posted on April 12, 2007 - 9:26 PM]

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I'm not writing this because I'm still bitter that I wasn't allowed into the beta trial of Socializr. I'm writing this because I felt queasy over the weekend upon... Continue Reading

Google's acquisition honchos speak [Posted on April 12, 2007 - 3:22 PM]

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Two Google executives responsible for the company's acquisition strategy, Salman Ullah (pictured at right) and Patrick Dempsey, spoke yesterday at a conference in Los Angeles. Ullah said Google is... Continue Reading

MySpace bans Photobucket; Still worth $300 million? [Posted on April 11, 2007 - 1:00 PM]

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Online photo sharing startup Photobucket's banishment from MySpace couldn't have come at a worse time. The company recently hired investment bankers and floated a $300 million proposed sale price.... Continue Reading

35 early-stage cleantech startups seeking VC funding [Posted on April 10, 2007 - 4:45 PM]

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For this quarter's issue of Tech Confidential, The Deal's Stacey Higginbotham compiled a list of 35 clean technology startups seeking funding. Here are the companies that made the list. The... Continue Reading

Google's Maxthon investment bolsters CRV's Web 2.0 strategy [Posted on April 10, 2007 - 4:10 PM]

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An acquisition for a hundred million would have been real validation, but this is certainly progress. Charles River Ventures is intent on getting in good Web 2.0 deals as... Continue Reading

Searching for the hottest Silicon Valley startups [Posted on April 9, 2007 - 2:12 PM]

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LinkedIn founder and chairman Reid Hoffman is using his company's question and answer service to boost deal flow. The busy angel investor posted a question on LinkedIn's Answers service... Continue Reading

Google's MyMaps threatens, but won't destroy Platial [Posted on April 9, 2007 - 1:08 PM]

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