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- The Accelerator Conundrum
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online media
More Media Experiments
Katie Hartnack Beltramini, Yahoo! Finance Product Manager, writes: Yahoo! Finance is interested in exploring different advertising options for the badge, and we’re looking for publisher and bloggers to help us with this task. I’m organizing an ad test and am actively looking for participants. As a thank you, all participants selected by Yahoo! will receive
Saying YES to $1.65 Billion
YouTube said YES to Google. No surprises there. Sequoia strikes again. Mike Moritz plays a perfect game. Again. Moritz leveraged Google with Yahoo, and now he has leveraged YouTube with Google. This time, faster. All the nuances were thought through. Just in case the SEC raises concerns, notice, Moritz is not on the YouTube Board.
Saying NO to $1.6 Billion
Saying NO to $1.6 Billion has its consequences. YouTube is being courted heavily. Tons of murmers in the blogosphere and even on WSJ, NYT, etc.. The question that YouTube needs to ask itself is whether it can possibly go at it alone? 50 Million users sharing and watching video – that is the basic business
Media Shuffles
On September 28 & 29, 2006, Heather Green & Stephen Baker reported that Business Week is having difficulties. During the AlwaysOn Network’s OnHollywood 2006 conference in May, media entrepreneur Tony Perkins noted that 62% of online content viewed by 21-year-olds is generated by someone they know. Perhaps, this trend is what has caused Perkins to
Investment Thesis: Alessandro Biral
Here’s my interview with Alessandro Biral from Dali Hook Ventures. They actually do seed or very early stage deals. Paul Dali, the Managing Partner of the firm, is the former CEO of Regis McKenna, Inc. I am working on a deal with Paul and Alessandro at the moment, and have good first hand experience of
Investment Thesis: Sumir Chadha
I interviewed Sumir Chadha, as a follow-up to the Investment Thesis series. I met Sumir 7 years back when I was doing Uuma, and Sumir was still at Goldman Sachs. Since then, he moved to Silicon Valley, and started one of the early efforts in venture investing in India, with Westbridge Capital. Westbridge was recently
Investment Thesis: George Zachary
I interviewed George Zachary, as a follow-up to the recurring theme in conversations with entrepreneurs: “VCs are only interested in coming to the rescue of victory”. George happens to be one of the authentic and consummate consumer internet and media investors – someone who did not blow with the wind on the topic of consumer
B:B Exchange: oDesk
Some of you may recall, during the Dotcom days, B:B Exchanges were a hot new concept, which propelled even the car companies to set up one (Onstar.com). Even John Doerr fell for it, and invested in eLance, which was an exchange for Freelancers. Well, like many other concepts that are returning with a web 2.0
