LinkedIn Has Found Its Groove?

Here’s a good article on LinkedIn. I have written about them before, a year or more ago, and at the time, they hadn’t yet quite hit their stride. Since then, the social networking craze has become a mainstream phenomenon. LinkedIn’s positioning seems to have become a “see and be seen” place for professionals, with recruiters

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Content Packaging

Rafat Ali reports on a Bear Stearns report suggesting that content packaging is the key opportunity going forward, with the following image of the content foodchain: Om also has his 2c to add about the fatbelly, saying that the MyYahoo or NetVibes kind of personalized content aggregation plays are the most important going forward. There

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What’s Cooking on the Internet?

Morning after Thanksgiving, so I hope all of you, American Readers, are well stuffed. Here’s a research report called What’s Cooking on the Internet? surveying the Food and Cooking websites, celebrating America’s greatest food-oriented tradition. And here’s a link to food blogs on the internet.

Serial Entrepreneur: Manoj Saxena (Part 2)

In our second part of the interview we delve into Exterprise, the first business venture by Manoj. SM: What was your first company? MS: It was basically a business collaboration platform, a company called Exterprise. We started that in June of 1998 and we sold it in March of 2001. We grew pretty rapidly from

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Serial Entrepreneur: Peng Ong (Part 3)

We continue our interview with Peng Ong and talk about his next venture, Interwoven. Here Peng addresses some very interesting topics and his personal philosophy on risk. SM: So tell us the story of Interwoven. You put in your own money? PO: I think the interesting thing if you look at my career, usually the

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Serial Entrepreneur: Peng Ong (Part 2)

Previously, we discussed Peng Ong and his background. Today we begin to explore his first true entrepreneurial venture, Electric Classifieds, which spawned the creation of Match.com, the worlds largest online dating service. SM: How long was match.com? PO: I spent probably a total of less than a year totally active there. SM: So you were

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Microcap: Shvoong

Google acquires Jotspot, Wired (CondeNast) acquires Reddit. These are companies that have achieved exit with little investment. [Jotspot raised one round of funding in 2004 for $5.2 million from Redpoint Ventures and Mayfield Funds. Joe Krause frequently points out that it cost only $100,000 to get Jotspot to market.] Reddit, it appears, did it for

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300 Million Strong Indian Middle Class

In the previous two-part post showcasing Battery Venture’s perspective on investments in India, the 300 million strong Indian middle class and its problems were highlighted as a key target market, and hence, opportunity. So, what are the problems that the Indian middle class faces? To answer this question, one should ask another question : How did

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