The Archive
April 5, 2013
Strategy #1 for Surviving the Series A Crunch: If you must pitch, at least pitch investors who are doing Series A deals right now. It will save you time and heartache. Despite the doom and gloom predictions about Series...
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San Francisco based PopExpert has raised a seed round for its live video service, according to documents filed with the SEC. The website connects people who want to learn new skills to a broad range of experts, let’s lea...
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Ars Technica tech policy writer Timothy B. Lee tweeted this morning that news aggregation service Digg is “a thing” again, which I hope means he’s seen some meaningful traffic and distribution of one or more of his piece...
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Flurry, the Google Analytics of mobile applications used in nearly 300,000 mobile applications, is widely rumored to be IPO-bound though no official paperwork has yet been filed. One job listing mentions that the role wi...
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According to investments reported in the Crunchbase database, this winter investment dollars flowing to startup companies reached low point not seen since May 2009. Even more concerning, on Monday the National Venture Ca...
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Over the past few weeks I’ve been indexing groups of startups, starting with the Y Combinator index and 500 Startups index. I’ve received a lot of requests for other indexes, and the company whose portfolio everyone want...
Read more →April 2, 2013
remember when our songs where just like prayers. like gospel hymns that you called in the air. come down come down sweet reverance, unto my simple house and ring… and ring. ring like silver, ring like gold ring out tho...
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Update: It’s a bit unclear whether this is a new vertical or simply an easier way to see men’s products that have actually been in Wanelo all along. The Wanelo blog has a series called Manelo Monday’s featuring menswear-...
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A few weeks ago I announced that Referly would be pivoting, and that we would no longer offer cash rewards for purchases generated on the platform after March 31st. Yesterday, we paid out our last rewards and today I am...
Read more →March 31, 2013
Updated at 1:53pm PST with comments from AngelList CEO Naval Ravikant. On March 26th The Funders Club received a no-action letter from the Securities and Exchange Commission stating that it will not recommend enforcement...
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