Archive for May, 2008
If you don’t even know how much money a company has raised, it’s raised too much. Akimbo shuts down, people don’t even know how much dough it burned through.
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Why do startups fail? The reasons are pretty obvious and easy to highlight. VCDave does a good job of listing them:
Oddly enough, however, while pointing out failure factors is relatively easy, truly determining what makes for a successful startup is pretty much two parts art and one part science. I dumb it down to a […]
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YouTube is looking at more and more ways to de-emphasize user-generated-crap in favor of professional content.
Excellent. Incidentally, I did a search for Travel to Madrid… look at the top result. Mind you one of our earlier lower-quality travel clips… but still better than most of the crap you would find otherwise.
Tags: Google, Video, YouTube|
Posted By: Ashkan Karbasfrooshan | May 23rd
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TheStreet.com’s Jim Cramer says CBS should go private (via SAI). Funny, I said that might be a good strategy for CBS, too, back in mid-April. Here is the summary of the argument:
One way that no one will care about a) Performance or b) Les Moonves salary is if it were not publicly traded. […]
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The Rumor
Joost is apparently in the market looking to raise more money. It raised $45M last year from an all-star list of investors. The company was founded by founders of KaZaa and Skype. Skype sold for billions, so Joost’s chances of running out of money are close to nil.
Joost is one of our many distribution […]
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From Paid Content:
— On Joost: Viacom was an original investor in the much-hyped video service from the founders of Skype. Is the service where he thought it would be? ”We come at Joost or other platforms from the point of view that we cannot predict—nor did we in that case or any other case—predict […]
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Google.com is kicking Yahoo!, MSN.com, Ask.com and AOL.com in the teeth. Those four horsewomen could buy up every search engine out there and add 1% to their market share. Heck, they can combine forces and have 39% to Google’s 61%, and judging by the latest stats, over the next months and quarters, that ratio will […]
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Is it really a service if people don’t ask for it?
“RedLasso believes we are providing a valuable service to the content producers and the bloggers,” Hayward said.
As a content producer, I am all for explosive distribution and seamless syndication, but I am sick and tired of technologists - and their financier backers - thinking they […]
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One of the main objections WatchMojo.com’s strategy used to it the fact that we create content across many categories (auto, health, travel, video games, etc.). It’s was a fair criticism; but it’s proven to be moot.
I don’t need to take 1,000 words to explain why. The marketplace has validated that strategy.
In the same vein, when […]
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I am advising an entrepreneur who is close to raising money. He is looking at 1 soft offer (not a term sheet) from a VC, a buyout offer from a media company and an investment offer from another.
He asked me this, and not being one to pontificate when I am not 100% of the answer, […]
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