Social Networking Without Boundaries : hi5 CEO Ramu Yalamanchi (Part 7)

SM: Social networks are becoming the voice of a generation. RY: Another thing to think about is that people are fundamentally social. What is happening online is a reflection of social behavior in the real world. Sites like ours just enhancing natural behavior.

Featured Videos

Infineon: Company Overview

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author We have, over the past year, presented detailed valuation theses for various mobile chipset vendors namely Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Broadcom, InterDigital, Marvell and STMicroelectronics. This matrix will not be complete without Infineon – the German Chipmaker.

Forbes Column 08: How To Heat Up Solar

Here’s my new Forbes column, How To Heat Up Solar, addresses what it would take to get solar energy to account for a meaningful portion of the global energy needs.

Social Networking Without Boundaries : hi5 CEO Ramu Yalamanchi (Part 6)

SM: A lot of rep firms have a reputation for having very high commissions, often upwards of 60%. Are your rep firms requiring commissions that high? RY: No, they are not. It is a volume and scale business. Compared to what it would cost us to build and hold our own sales force, as a percentage of

Read Full Article »

Blog Monetization

I have been promising many of you that I will do this post based on where things are currently on the internet. So here it is.

Microsoft-Yahoo Talks End

The WSJ is reporting that Microsoft no longer wants to acquire Yahoo!. Shares of Yahoo lost 10%, or $2.63, to $23.52 as of 4 p.m Eastern. It will go down much further. Jerry Yang will be fired soon. The executive exodus will march on, and Kara Swisher is making a career out of reporting on

Read Full Article »

Deal Radar 2008: BitTorrent

BitTorrent—founded by Bram Cohen and Ashwin Navin in September 2004—is one of the players in the peer-to-peer content delivery industry. Headquartered in San Francisco, the company invented the BitTorrent protocol and runs a peer assisted content delivery system based on the protocol.

Social Networking Without Boundaries : hi5 CEO Ramu Yalamanchi (Part 5)

SM: How did you fund the initial startup? Where did you get the funding? RY: We had a rolling round, primarily from friends and family, with a target goal of $250,000. The first $10,000 came from my dad.