The a:c Devalues Gawker Media
Our mailbag was full of advice and scorn about the finger-in-the-wind model we used to establish that Gawker Media’s valuation could be reasonable at $274M. Based on input from superior mathematical...
View ArticleEVDB – Profile
HQ: La Jolla, CA Founded: January 2004 Management: Founders are Brian Dear (CEO), Chuck Norris (CTO – not the kung-fu star), and Raj Basavaraju (Sr. Database Architect). Dear was founding Director of...
View ArticleBlog Mogul Backlash
The New York Press, a weekly handout that one New York gossip columnist says “is best used to line birdcages,” has just published its “50 Most Loathsome New Yorkers” issue, an annual evisceration of 50...
View ArticleThe Dirt on TechDirt – It’s a Real Company
Our friend Mike Masnick, CEO of TechDirt, gets a nice write-up in the San Francisco Chronicle. We were surprised to learn that TechDirt has revenues to support 12 staff members. Impressive. It’s one...
View ArticlePredixis – Profile
HQ: Monrovia, CA Founded: Circa 2001. Predixis is a spin-off of Parasoft — an international software tools company with over 250 employees worldwide. Management: Dr. Adam Kolawa is Founder &...
View ArticleThe a:c on M.I.T. Tech Review – The Business Of Blogging
As summarized by PaidContent.org, this story is “A detailed story/profile of Weblogs Inc, the blogging media company run by Jason Calacanis. Some good pointers of how Jason and Brian Alvey went about...
View ArticleSEO Subscription’s SEOmoz Raises $18M
Seattle’s Seomoz has raised an $18M round from rom Foundry Group and Ignition Partners. In 2007, the company had raised $1.2M from Ignition Partners and Curious Office. As the company notes in their...
View ArticleYahoo! Rebounds? No.
We heard an interview today with the New York Times Andrew Ross Sorkin who broke the story today that Google’s Marissa Mayer is Yahoo’s new CEO. Sorkin is in a position where he got the gift of an...
View ArticleMeeGenius! Raises $2.4M
The alarm:clock team is working remotely from the South Pacific, where the libraries are scare, Sponge Bob is getting stale, but Wifi is fine. So we spent some time looking for kids books...
View ArticleLocu Raises $4M For Local Data
Boston’s Locu has raised $4M from General Catalyst Partners. The startup came out of Tim Berners-Lee’s lab at MIT. What they do is extract data on restaurants and other local businesses from...
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