The Archive
April 29, 2013
According to a banner across the top of the company’s website, interest-based people discovery service LikeIt will shut down tomorrow. Originally called TheComplete.me, the company relaunched as LikeIt.com in late Januar...
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We benefit from a startup culture where it’s okay to fail, but that doesn’t mean we should avoid examining the mistakes that lead to the loss of capital, jobs, and the opportunity cost when increasingly limited venture c...
Read more →April 28, 2013
It was reported in early February that the two product managers, hailing from Google (Walk) and Twitter (Patel) would raise a $25M first fund. It appears fundraising has gone so well that the two have closed are raising...
Read more →April 27, 2013
Companies currently interviewing for Y Combinator have taken the Internet’s advice to reach out to alumni to practice before they present, but unfortunately we don’t scale very well. I’ve prepped with a dozen teams so fa...
Read more →April 25, 2013
Tomorrow marks 1 month since Y Combinator Demo Day for the Winter 2013 class of startups, and since I’ve been tracking their progress for awhile now I have a pretty good sense of who has seen sustained interest, growing...
Read more →April 24, 2013
My old startup died. I have been working on my new startup. It’s kind of named after this band I love, but not entirely. New name, and we’ve got a long way to go. Art Is Hard Cut it out – your self-inflicted pain is gett...
Read more →April 24, 2013
Earlier this month my post “Zombie VCs” raised hackles throughout the industry by naming firms who appeared to be inactive based on a lack of new investment data available in Crunchbase, If today’s article byDan Primack...
Read more →April 22, 2013
This post is part of a series on data-driven blogging which includes the Startup Index and Investor Index. I have quantified companies from 500 Startups, Y Combinator, TechStars, Andreessen Horowitz and First Round Capit...
Read more →April 22, 2013
Oh oh oho. damn, here we go again. Oh oh oho. Common passed on this beat, I made it to a jam, now everything I’m not, made me everything I am. damn, here we go again. people talking shit, but when the shit hit the fan ev...
Read more →April 21, 2013
This post is part of the Startup Index series, which ranks companies and profiles investor portfolios on a monthly basis. I have previously indexed Y Combinator, 500 Startups, TechStars and Andreessen Horowitz. Like data...
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