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WedMD Healthy, Shutterfly Should Acquire Blurb
Here is a quick look at some of the recently announced results for a few Internet stocks which have done well in the current depressed times.
Turning Around LeapFrog: CEO Jeff Katz (Part 3)
SM: Was Saber under American Airlines or on its own? JK: Saber, by that time, was a public company. It was not controlled by American Airlines anymore. The Chief Financial officer at United had the idea that the airline industry needed to form its own competitor to Travelocity and Saber, otherwise the industry would be
Serial Entrepreneur Zack Rinat on Model N (Part 12)
SM: What would you like to conclude with? It seems like you are at a place in your life where you are building this company to a significant size and this is your life’s effort a built to last company versus built to flip. What are your departing thoughts? ZR: A couple of things come
TheFind: LifeStyle Shopping (Part 5)
[Part 4] TheFind launched relatively recently, and has gained very good traction already. They are also generating some ad revenues at a $5-$10 CPM range via a partnership with Glam Media. Let’s hear more details from Siva. SM: What stage are you at now? SK: Our site has been open to consumers for the last
Wisdom From the Trenches
By Arun Natarajan, Guest Author, reporting on the Venture Intelligence Internet & Mobile Connect conference in Mumbai. Acknowledging that the Internet is becoming core to people’s lives and that there is room for various online business models, Ashish Gupta, Managing Director of Helion VC, pointed out some of the challenges facing investors in the Internet
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By Arun Natarajan, Guest Author The over cautiousness induced by the “dotcom bust” of 2000-01 has resulted in a peculiar situation where even as user adoption of the Internet and mobile phones have expanded significantly and advertisers are willing to spend significant sums on these mediums, there is a serious lack of compelling content and
