Money for Nothing, Books for Free

Well, not really. Have you written a book? Do you aspire to write one? Read this piece from Fortune: Author Paulo Coelho’s profitable Net obsession

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Google’s Mortalization

Those who make a habit of existing in the clouds eventually have to descend. Perhaps, Google is experiencing a slight doze of “mortalization”. Google investors have lost more than 18% of their money over the past month due to concerns about the crumbling US macroeconomic condition. After yesterday’s 4Q07 results which were highly overestimated by

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Microsoft to Rescue the Yahoo Damsel in Distress

Yahoo!’s vulnerable situation was bound to bring out acquisition offers, and Microsoft has been sniffing at the company for a year (see the letter from Ballmer to Yang in the WSJ). I was hoping against hope that Private Equity would step up to the plate, recognizing the leverage opportunity, but it has not happened.

Dominique Trempont

Dominique Trempont has been CEO and Board Member at a series of companies. In 1993, he was recruited by Steve Jobs to turnaround NeXT as CFO. He sold NeXT to Apple in 1997 for $462M. In 1997, Dominique became the CEO of Gemplus Corp., the software application and mobile telephony company of Gemplus, world leader

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Deal Radar 2008: Tagged In Exit Freeze Danger Zone?

Tagged, launched in 2004, is a rapidly growing social network for teens aged 13 – 19. It is quickly becoming the number one teen site. The site’s early innovations include the use of slides and YouTube as a part of its graphical interface. In February 2006, Tagged raised $7 million in its first venture capital

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Vertical Travel Ad Network CEO Cree Lawson (Part 4)

SM: How big is the market? How do you calculate TAM? What is your business model? CL: We’ve reviewed a great deal of research on how large the market is for online travel advertising and very specifically banner advertising on travel websites. Forrester says that online travel advertising is an $8-billion-a-year industry in 2007, growing

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