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If you’ll pardon the pun, SimpleGeo has positioned itself well.
With a frenzy of activity surrounding location-based services, more and more startups are launching ideas that rely heavily on location. But implementing location is still a relatively complicated process. And that’s where SimpleGeo comes in.
We’ve written about the service a number of times over the past [...]
Tue, March 30 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Earlier we made fun of Bing for going “dark” today to save energy in a way that doesn’t at all save energy. But Foursquare has an actual way to do that: take down the entire service.
Yesterday, Foursquare had some downtime. That’s nothing new, startups have downtime all the time — see: Twitter, that was [...]
Sun, March 28 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
What do Accel Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Khosla Ventures and Redpoint Ventures have in common? Besides being tier one venture capitalists, at least one thing: They are all fighting furiously to be the lead investor in Foursquare’s next venture round.
All that competition is driving the valuation massively upwards, too. A couple of weeks ago we’d heard [...]
Thu, March 25 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Startup Wix, which allows users to build flash websites and widgets, has just raised $10 million in Series C funding from Benchmark Capital existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners and Mangrove Capital Partners participating. This round of founding brings Wix’s total funding to $20 million. You can read our initial review of Wix here.
Founded [...]
Wed, March 24 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Mike Maples, one of the co-founders of Motive, has been investing “as a hobby” for the last five years under the banner of Maples Investments. Some hobby: his investments include Twitter, Digg, Chegg, Gowalla, ngmoco, Smule, Kwedit and a dozen or so other well known startups. And he’s already cashed in on a few of [...]
Wed, March 24 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Who says you can’t attract a substantial number of users on a shoestring budget?
Spain-based social networking platform provider Genoom, which lets family members communicate amongst each other on private online community sites, is about to sign up its millionth user.
This isn’t exactly a huge milestone, but I think it is noteworthy since the startup [...]
Fri, March 19 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
RF wireless mouse (RF-903)
product instruction:
Interface: USB
Resolution: 800dpi
Frame Rate: 3200fps
Mouse Buttons: 2Buttons + 1 Wheel
Receiving distance: 1.5m
Working Frequency: 27MHz
Micro Switch: [...]
Wed, March 17 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
When CoTweet sold to ExactTarget a couple weeks ago, the acquisition price was not disclosed. But an SEC filing put out today suggests that ExactTweet paid at least $8.1 million in stock for CoTweet. That is the value of “securities offered . . . as partial consideration in connection with a merger,” meaning [...]
Mon, March 15 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Super-angel Ron Conway, who is one of the most prolific and successful investors in Silicon Valley, is expanding his SV Angel fund to include outside investors (recently he has invested only his own capital in startups). He is raising a new fund of around $10 million, we’ve confirmed.
Conway, who was called the “Godfather of Silicon [...]
Fri, February 26 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman is an occasional contributor to TechCrunch. And when he does take the time to write a guest column, they are certainly worth reading. In this post he laments cheapskate founders who trickle tiny amounts of equity down to early employees, and presumably he’s taken his own advice with the now-profitable Redfin. [...]
Fri, February 26 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
