Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Saad Khan, Partner, CMEA Capital (Part 12)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Saad: The biggest challenge that I see from a venture perspective for me, personally, is how do you scale yourself and your time? Unfortunately, there are only 24 hours in a day and seven days in a week. I can tell you that if I wanted to

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Saad Khan, Partner, CMEA Capital (Part 8)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Saad: LiveOps also run a managed service where they have more than 20,000 agents who aren’t employees of the company [but] are contractors who are executing sales and customer support and other things for customers all over the world. What’s interesting about that model and what really

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Deal Radar 2008: Pandora

Pandora Media, based in Oakland, California, is an Internet radio web site. Founded by Tim Westergren in 2000, it was formerly known as Savage Beast Technologies. Pandora uses the Music Genome Project, a collection of songs that have been analyzed by trained musicians.

Online Music & Web 3.0 (Part 2)

Top Music Sites and Rankings Among the online music portals, AOL Music has 15.66% market share (including Napster’s 2.6% market share) and more than 350,000 music subscribers to its credit. The site attracted 161,497,557 users in December 2006. AOL Music is the leading online music site with 25.2 million unique visitors, followed by Yahoo! Music

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