Archive for September, 2007
2007 has definitely turned out to be an interesting year, what does 2008 have in store? Let’s see:
January
- UGC will waver in interest and hype. Users realize there’s actually very little in it for them to upload low-quality videos of their most recent [insert crap here] on [insert YouTube clone site here]. […]
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Om Malik breaks from the herd and serves up an interesting perspective on Facebook’s $300-500M fundraising effort from MSFT.
The Giga Om founder suggests that Facebook is bracing for a MySpace-esque, sexual predator-related subpoena and/or lawsuit. Lord knows that MySpace has spent plenty of resources on cleaning house with all of the reports of sexual […]
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2007. What a long strange trip it’s been.
This year,
- Microsoft emerged as a staunch opponent to monopolies.
- Apple became a telecommunications dinosaur, frustrating consumers.
- CBS and NBC say that 30% and 80% of users watch full length TV shows to the end online.
- Cisco buys a social network, Tribe.
- Two men who inadvertently gave nightmares […]
Tags: Internet & Web, Management|
Posted By: Ashkan Karbasfrooshan | Sep 28th
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Having worked in the past - and hopefully in the future, too - with Demand Media, I was intrigued to learn that in addition to $220M of funding to date, they closed an additional $100M round yesterday.
There was no word on the valuation, but it was obvious that the company was gunning for an exit […]
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Paid Content reported today that GameTrust sold for less than $50M, after raising $20M over 3 rounds, over the past 5 years. That does not seem like a healthy exit for the numerous VCs, which include: TWJ Capital, NJTC Venture Fund, Patriot Capital, CSK Ventures, Topspin Partners, Silicon Alley Venture Partners, Draper Associates […]
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I highly doubt anyone at MSFT is grilling Mark Zuckerberg over what he’d do with the rumored $300-500M he might be raising, but let’s consider some of the options:
#1- Working Capital:
Facebook’s got 300 employees, expect them to add to headcount, labor always eats up a large chunk of total expenses, especially in SF. If […]
Tags: Facebook.com, Financing|
Posted By: Ashkan Karbasfrooshan | Sep 25th
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Michael Arrington has a fantastic story on Parakey and how its investors - including powerhouse VC Sequoia - got fleeced in the sale to Facebook.
To summarize:
When Facebook acquired Parakey in July, everyone assumed the stockholders of that fledgling startup would be popping the champagne bottles. No matter what the acquisition price (it wasn’t disclosed), if […]
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eMarketer’s CEO Geoff Ramsey threw out some interesting figures. I always take these projections with a grain of salt, but for discussion purposes, they’re interesting nonetheless:
AS THE ONLY GROWTH MARKET in the world of media and marketing, online ad spending will expand 28.6% this year, according to eMarketer CEO Geoff Ramsey. Next year, digital ad […]
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WPP joined a growing rank of players opposed to DCLK/GOOG’s merger plans. Maybe what they have to say makes sense, but it should be noted, WPP invested in Video Egg. Video Egg claims to have invented - by way of a patent - the video ad overlay Google’s YouTube unit will now be […]
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Yes, this is a stretch, but you have to wonder:
By launching a tracking index of media companies, called the ContentNext Media Index, is Paid Content getting one step closer to becoming the Dow Jones of the 21st century?
After all, the Dow Jones & Company, initially a newsletter publisher (like PaidContent) expanded, launched a tracking index:
The […]
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