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 traffic, and increased audience through social media. The weeks after Demo Continue Reading
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 getting too routine the crowds Continue Reading
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 of Fortune “Fewer than 100 tech VCs left?” is anything to go by, my Continue Reading
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 everything I’m not, made Continue Reading
Last night I logged into Referly for the first time in a few weeks. I’ve been trying not to do that, because there are still so many things I want to fix and when I see them I just… and I was so in love with it and it’s just… Continue Reading
Correction: According to Reuters, Tableau has raised more than $100M in venture capital, although regulatory filings for these additional rounds have still been difficult for me to track down. Seattle-based Tableau Software, filed its S-1 documents for an IPO earlier this month on the New York Stock Exchange, and even Continue Reading
This post is part of the Startup Index Series, featuring data-driven posts about the companies in various portfolios including Y Combinator, 500 Startups and Andreessen Horowitz. Which portfolio would you like to see analyzed next? TechStars is a seed stage startup accelerator funding companies in Boulder, Boston, Chicago, London, New Continue Reading
J.J. Hirschle, head of the Google Affiliate Network, announced today that the company has decided to shut down Google Affiliate Network following a review of goals and outcomes of the program. While its certainly no Google Reader, this does seem to be part of an ongoing effort at Google to Continue Reading
Last month the first Y Combinator index ranked the entire portfolio by web traffic and Facebook monthly active users (where applicable). These two data points provided some relative ranking, but didn’t do much to bring enterprise companies to their expected positions in the list and overly favored companies with short Continue Reading
Over the past few days friends have been remarking that they’ve seen various pieces of Facebook’s new design rollout, including various shades of blue for the top bar. I had yet to see anything resembling the new design they hinted at earlier this month until today. I opened up my Continue Reading