Netvibes CEO Freddy Mini announced today that the startup founded five years ago has finally made it to profitability. The site has seen a lot of changes since then. It began as one of the original Web 2.0 personalized homepages, became a distributed widget platform, changed CEOs (when founder Tariq Krim stepped down [...]
Tags: 5 Million, Analytics, Ceos, Dashboard, Enterprise 50, Enterprise Version, Google, Google Trends, Interested Consumers, Intranet Homepage, Million Dollars, Net Income, Oriented Homepage, Pr Agencies, Profitability, Tariq Krim, Wasabi, Widget, Widgets, Yelp
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Thu, April 1 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Earlier today, two men were spotted having coffee in Palo Alto, CA. Except these weren’t just any two men. They were the CEOs of perhaps the two most important and powerful companies in Silicon Valley right now, Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Big deal, you might think. After all, Schmidt used [...]
Tags: Android, Animosity, Apple Ceo, Apple Town, Ceo Eric Schmidt, Ceos, Coffee Date, Current State, Eric Schmidt, Gizmodo, Google, Google Pictures, Htc, Michael Mann, Palo Alto Ca, S Board, Several Movies, Silicon Valley, State Of Affairs, Steve Jobs
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Sat, March 27 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Our constant rants on the PR Industry do not go unnoticed. In return our tips box is filled with humorous anecdotes, articles and now, a video. Here are two we’ve received in the last week. Which we’re posting in honor of Yahoo breaking its own embargo, and the AP sending the launch of CODE advisors [...]
Tags: Account Executive, Businesspeople, Ceo Clients, Ceos, Charm School, Embargo, Flack, Humorous Anecdotes, Internet Startups, Job Description, Launch, Nitwit, Outcast, Pr Firm, Pr Industry, Sifter, Software Company, Success Story, Superiors, Whores
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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. [...]
Tags: 10 Million, 50 Million, Acquisitions, Adviser, Ceos, Einstein, Elephant, Entrepreneur, Founders, Glenn Kelman, Good Question, Guest Column, Liquidation, Occasional Contributor, Raising Venture Capital, Startups, Suster, Sweeteners, Tiny Amounts, Worth Reading
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Fri, February 26 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Some VCs are getting an early Valentine’s Day gift fromTheFunded, the site where CEOs rate venture capitalists and their firms. Below you will find the top-ranked individual VCs, as determined by their ratings in 2009. What makes this ranking particularly useful to entrepreneurs is that it is ratings by other CEOs, often CEOs [...]
Tags: Angel Investors, Ceos, Charles River Ventures, Fred Wilson, Greylock, Grp Partners, Howard Morgan, Investment Performance, Investment Pros, Investment Returns, John Doerr, Kleiner Perkins Caufield, Michael Moritz, Mike Maples, Personal Experiences, Popularity Contest, Roelof Botha, Suster, Terry Mcguire, Venture Capitalists
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Tue, February 2 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments