Archive for September, 2007
You have to wonder, if today’s news on WSJ re: MSFT investing $300-500M for a 5% stake in Facebook, valuing the company at $10-15B is a legitimate new rumor, or just an offshoot of AllThingsD.com’s post by Kara Swisher?
This is awfully akin to when a new story on MSFT/YHOO merger shot YHOO’s stock up […]
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Last week, I asked Mark Zuckerberg how he would see MySpace and Facebook coexist under News Corp., with the implication being that Rupert Murdoch dreams of acquiring Facebook and would eventually make it happen.
It was a couple of questions in one :
- is News Corp. really that interested in Facebook?
- would Facebook actually sell to […]
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Thanks to the stronger Canadian currency, turns out the Globe and Mail’s Mathew Ingram bought both Google and TechMeme recently.
What on earth am I talking about? Read this: Mathew has taken over TechMeme and Google.
And relevant to this, I think this post gets the bod for Crazy Post of the Day, the images, arrows […]
Tags: Blogs, Crazy, Uncategorized|
Posted By: Ashkan Karbasfrooshan | Sep 22nd
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The title of this post, Of VCs and Men, is a play on John Steinbeck’s book, Of Mice and Men.
For the record, it does not suggest that VCs are rats, au contraire, it implies that they’re caught in a rat race against one another to find the best entrepreneurs, products, companies and markets… and because […]
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The following applies to any company in the search space that works in direct navigation, parked URL and what.
I am using Marchex because they’re publicly traded and the data is available… but technically it would also work for NameMedia, too. Bear in mind, these companies would scoff at my suggestion because they are cash […]
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Just a bit of a disclaimer: as an executive/blogger, I frequently get information way before many in the media do (not bragging, just stating common sense), but for obvious reasons I sometimes step away from my Wordpress account.
Does it eat me away sometimes? Yes.
I don’t publish things like “I have a major scoop on a […]
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I’ve been chronicling the dynamics of blogs and print magazines over the past year.
Trust me when I say the momentum is shifting from magazines to blogs specifically faster than it’s moving from print to online. Right now, the pioneers who dove into blog publishing, namely Rafat Ali, Nick Denton, Om Malik, Michael Arrington, Richard […]
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Settling back after my sojourn to SF. Checking in on some stats, I’ve already mentioned how the number of streams off WatchMojo.com was up 75% after the first couple of weeks since our relaunch on August 18th. Then, last week, in one day, we did 2.05 times the number of streams that we did on […]
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I always tell people that to be successful at their respective professions, marketers need to succeed outside of Manhattan, programmers need to look beyond Silicon Valley and creators need to please audiences outside of Hollywood.
Outside of the 650 or 415 area code, everyone looks up to Yahoo! but that does not mean that Yahoo! does […]
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I had a chance to be in attendance and hear the following panels:
- Sequoia’s Michael Moritz interviews Marc Andreesen (founder Netscape & Opsware, co-founder Ning), David Filo (co-founder Yahoo), and Chad Hurley (co-founder YouTube);
- Jason Calacanis moderates discussion with Jay Adelson (Digg), David Sacks (Geni), Roelof Botha (Sequoia), Sumant Mandal (Clearstone), George Zachery (CRV), Hank […]
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