Saying YES to $1.65 Billion

YouTube said YES to Google. No surprises there. Sequoia strikes again. Mike Moritz plays a perfect game. Again. Moritz leveraged Google with Yahoo, and now he has leveraged YouTube with Google. This time, faster. All the nuances were thought through. Just in case the SEC raises concerns, notice, Moritz is not on the YouTube Board.

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Saying NO to $1.6 Billion

Saying NO to $1.6 Billion has its consequences. YouTube is being courted heavily. Tons of murmers in the blogosphere and even on WSJ, NYT, etc.. The question that YouTube needs to ask itself is whether it can possibly go at it alone? 50 Million users sharing and watching video – that is the basic business

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Media Shuffles

On September 28 & 29, 2006, Heather Green & Stephen Baker reported that Business Week is having difficulties. During the AlwaysOn Network’s OnHollywood 2006 conference in May, media entrepreneur Tony Perkins noted that 62% of online content viewed by 21-year-olds is generated by someone they know. Perhaps, this trend is what has caused Perkins to

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Investment Thesis: Peter Redford

Some of you have read my previous coverage of the TVI vs. Microsoft case in which TVI sued Microsoft over the Autoplay patent. Peter Redford, CEO of TVI, won that case earlier this year, and has since joined the Band of Angels, as an Angel investor. The Band is one of the best organized Angel

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The Seed Quest Continues

It is true. Most VCs don’t do much early-stage investment anymore. But since you would have to continue building your businesses, you need to find angels & perhaps some smaller VCs who would do your seed round. There are a few exceptions. Here are four interviews with VCs from my Investment Thesis series that might

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Investment Thesis: Alessandro Biral

Here’s my interview with Alessandro Biral from Dali Hook Ventures. They actually do seed or very early stage deals. Paul Dali, the Managing Partner of the firm, is the former CEO of Regis McKenna, Inc. I am working on a deal with Paul and Alessandro at the moment, and have good first hand experience of

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Investment Thesis: Sumir Chadha

I interviewed Sumir Chadha, as a follow-up to the Investment Thesis series. I met Sumir 7 years back when I was doing Uuma, and Sumir was still at Goldman Sachs. Since then, he moved to Silicon Valley, and started one of the early efforts in venture investing in India, with Westbridge Capital. Westbridge was recently

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Investment Thesis: George Zachary

I interviewed George Zachary, as a follow-up to the recurring theme in conversations with entrepreneurs: “VCs are only interested in coming to the rescue of victory”. George happens to be one of the authentic and consummate consumer internet and media investors – someone who did not blow with the wind on the topic of consumer

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