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Netvibes Makes It To Profitability By Appealing To Businesses

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 [...]

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Thu, April 1 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Jobs And Schmidt: We’ve Seen This Movie Before, I’m Just Not Sure Which One It Is

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 [...]

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Sat, March 27 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

I Will Honor The Embargo

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 [...]

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Fri, February 26 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Memo to CEOs And Founders: Share The Love

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. [...]

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Fri, February 26 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

TheFunded Ranks The Most Loved VCs Of 2009

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 [...]

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Tue, February 2 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments