Deal Radar 2008: Mixpo

Mixpo—a Seattle-based company—offers a platform to simplify the process of handling multimedia on the Internet. Aimed at small and medium business owners, the company concentrates on providing tools to simplify the task of modifying and posting ads online. Unlike other companies in the segment that are still concentrating on video sharing, Mixpo is focused on

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Tackling EDA’s Broken Business Model: Blaze DFM CEO Jacob Jacobsson (Part 7)

SM: Is TSMC making overtures to acquire you? JJ: You have to ask them that. I don’t think either party has an interest in that kind of setup today because we want to see how this plays out. It is not something we are talking about actively.

Deal Radar 2008: PaidContent

PaidContent—the flagship site of ContentNext Media Inc.— is a blog site that covers news on media related technology worldwide. It was founded by editor and publisher Rafat Ali in 2002 in a bid to raise his personal profile and find a new job. Four years later Ali made PaidContent a business and founded ContentNext Media,

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Tackling EDA’s Broken Business Model: Blaze DFM CEO Jacob Jacobsson (Part 6)

SM: How did you convince TSMC that your process works and that you should get paid for it? JJ: TSMC would not endorse something like this without verifying it was sustainable.

Deal Radar 2008: UpTake

UpTake is a travel site that offers users options to help them plan themed trips such as kid- or pet-friendly trips, girl getaways and romantic escapes. The site caters to the millions of people who have yet to decide what type of holiday they want – where to go, what to do, where to stay,

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Tackling EDA’s Broken Business Model: Blaze DFM CEO Jacob Jacobsson (Part 5)

SM: How are you charging for your software? Are you competing for EDA dollars? JJ: We recently made an announcement with TSMC, and I think this is the way we will continue to do business.

Deal Radar 2008: Powerset

Powerset concentrates on natural language processing (NLP) to search the web, meaning that the search engine uses whole phrases rather than just keywords, making it easier to get the results required. The site currently uses natural language queries to search Wikipedia. Powerset’s real strength is the way it indexes web pages: pages are analyzed according

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Tackling EDA’s Broken Business Model: Blaze DFM CEO Jacob Jacobsson (Part 4)

SM: Can you talk about Blaze’s value proposition and business model? JJ: We change the way a process works from an insider’s point of view. You have certain manufacturing processes with certain leakage, power, and performance characteristics. We change those to something more favorable.