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HOT TOPICS
- The Accelerator Conundrum
- The Startup Velocity Question
- Platform as a Service
- Man and Superman
- Web 3.0 = (4C + P + VS)
- The Future: End of Capitalism
- Capitalism 2.0
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User Generated Reviews
Check out Yelp Mobile. In the growing trend of User Generated content, the Review market is one that many are eyeing. Yahoo has had movie reviews for a long time. Google is starting to pull in Yelp type reviews into their Google Local site. Now, Palm has done a deal with Yelp to put them
Destiny of Facebook and YouTube
Viacom buys Atom, adding this to their other recent purchases, XFIRE, Y2M, GameTrailers.com, IFILM and Neopets, placing them all under MTV Networks. Atom has very interesting short films and gaming properties, but none of the sizzle and growth rate of YouTube, for example. The one thing still missing from their portfolio is a MySpace-like social
Google Gets MySpace
Google + MySpace = ~ 1 Billion Dollar deal. MySpace already makes $350 Million a year in revenues, but a Google deal will add a great deal of structure to their advertising. Of course, this just pushed the valuations of FaceBook and YouTube up another notch as well. Some exits are in the wings for
Yahoo Opens Wallet For India
Yahoo will co-invest with Canaan Partners in an Indian Matrimonial site, Bharatmatrimony.com. This is, likely, indicative of a trend that Yahoo will take a stake in each promising segment of the Indian Consumer Internet industry (Travel, Jobs), as well as in the emerging web and mobile content industry. For an overview of the deals done
Concept Arbitrage: Looking For Love
India’s opportunity in niche matrimonials and online dating ventures.
Shutterfly Should NOT Go Public
Shutterfly’s impending precarious IPO.
Clarify Your Story: Internet Business Checklist
Internet startups, web 2.0 startups – use this checklist for strategic planning.
