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Next Wave of Deals
Om Malik discusses what’s next in terms of big Internet deals. Here’s a good addendum from our Forum. I agree, Digg and Photobucket are strong possibilities.
Moritz’s New Deal: PopSugar
To scale expontentially the level of trash in Cyberspace, Michael Moritz is funding a company called PopSugar, supposedly a celebrity gossip site targeted towards young, hip women. Huge Alexa ratings show excellent uptake, as the company describes itself as “Insanely Addictive”. No kidding! 1.5 Million unique visitors. It’s interesting to me that while Bill Gates
Media Troubles
I wrote Media Shuffles earlier this week. Here’s TechCrunch reporting on CNet’s troubles, because of the rise of Blogs. Clearly, blogs have disrupted a lot of things in the old media world. Google’s newly acquired power in video sharing will, likely, also prove problematic for the incumbants. I am hearing from myriad sources that the
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: 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
Quieres Bailar?
Last night, we saw a beautiful concert by an acclaimed Flamenco dancer, La Tania. This morning, I was telling my mother about the concert. My mother lives in India, I wish I could send her video clips of the pieces that especially struck me. Much as music sharing has become a grand killer app on
