Deal Radar 2008: Wetpaint

Wetpaint is a social publishing platform. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, the company was formed to make it easier for people to share their experiences and information online. Founded in 2005 and previously named Wikisphere, Wetpaint combines the best of blogs, wikis, forums, and social networks.

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British Brothers: Scansafe Founders Roy and Eldar Tuvey (Part 4)

SM: Let’s discuss your strategy for growing beyond the UK. RT: We went out to raise financing, targeted US venture capitalists, and made a deal with Benchmark. We raised $10 million. I used that to relocate to the US to start operations here. The focus was to pinpoint specific targets such as telecoms and email

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Top 8 Blog-related Startups

Blogs have clearly turned the media industry upside down,, with many providing coverage superior to that of newspapers and television. While most of them read poorly, some are excellent, and these are monetizing by quality ad networks with their content and traffic. Here are eight players in the blogosphere worth watching:

British Brothers: Scansafe Founders Roy and Eldar Tuvey (Part 3)

SM: Did you have a SaaS vulnerability assessment tool developed? RT: There were three things. First, we were running an ASP, so we knew about running services in the cloud. Second, we understood the web protocol through our joint venture and we were used to processing large volumes of web traffic. Finally, we understood the security market

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Vision India 2020: NCTV

I am going to make a detour from Healthcare and switch to Sports for this column. NCTV is a media company that we built around the core concept of non-cricket television. As in prior years, India had put up a pathetic show in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Athletes were sent to compete in Archery, Athletics,

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British Brothers: Scansafe Founders Roy and Eldar Tuvey (Part 2)

SM: How did you get the business started? Did you finance it with your own money? RT: Eldar had been running a business for three and a half years, and I had come directly from a finance background. The entrepreneurial spirit runs in the family. Everyone in the family has some sort of business. It

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How Jagmohan Dalmiya Commercialized Cricket (Part 2)

SM: Can you give me a little bit of business context in terms of Indian cricket? JD: The Indian cricket business situation was very bad. The Indian government, specifically the Broadcasting Ministry, controlled the cricket telecasts. They did not compensate the BCCI for any rights associated with telecasts. In fact, it was exactly the opposite:

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Trusting Untrusted Computers (Part 1)

By Dr. Taher Elgamal, Guest Author [SM: Readers have read my interview series with Taher earlier. It is my pleasure to welcome this Security industry thought leader to shed some light on the past, present and future of Security.] It is one of our biggest dilemmas in modern computing: can we trust running our lives

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