Business Incubator Series: An Interview With Paul Bragiel, Managing Partner, i/o Ventures, San Francisco, California (Part 1)

By guest author Irina Patterson and Mridula Velagapudi I am talking to Paul Bragiel, managing partner of i/o Ventures, which is a three-month accelerator program for technology entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. The partners of i/o Ventures come from companies like MySpace and BitTorrent, and their mentors are from Yelp, Digg, Mint, Mochi Media, and OpenDNS.

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Top 7 Internet TV Startups

As Internet TV slowly gains ground, the line between the Internet and TV is getting blurred. Although IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) has not yet reached the stage where it can navigate the world of TVs and set-top boxes, it will soon.

Deal Radar 2008: Revision3

Revision3 is a San Francisco-based Internet TV network. The company was formed in 2005 by Kevin Rose, Jay Adelson, Dan Huard, Ron Gorodetzky, and David Prager to address the lack of good content on traditional television.

Catching Up on Deal Radar 2008

Here’s some more catching up material for the holiday weekend: In the last month, we have featured the following companies in the Deal Radar 2008 series: * SaaS: PayCycle, Bill.com, Daptiv, PayScale. * Online Video/IPTV: Joost, VideoEgg, YuMe, BitTorrent, Brightcove, Revver, MotionBox, Veoh. * Others: Inform, Mercado, AKQA, Geni, Blurb, Mimosa, Metaweb, Cake Financial, and

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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.