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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
Editor’s note: This post was written by Joe Stump, the co-founder of SimpleGeo, a geolocation infrastructure company. While much of the focus in location these days is on the front-end side of things, SimpleGeo focuses on the backend, allowing startups to very easily get started with geolocation.
There’s been a lot of coverage lately about the [...]
Fri, March 19 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Editor’s note: When venture capitalists invest in early stage startups, more than anything else they are investing in the founders of the company and their ability to lead their employees through the most improbable set of circumstances to take an idea from a germ to a real and profitable business. In this guest post, [...]
Sun, March 14 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
In the wake of Apple’s sudden decision to remove nearly all “sexy” applications from the App Store, we’ve been hearing that the company is also clamping down on so-called “cookie-cutter” applications — iPhone apps that are built from templates using one of the many app-building services available. This would be yet another major change [...]
Mon, March 8 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
The race to create the Mint.com for the UK has claimed its first victim. Kublax, a Seedcamp 2007 winner which launched in August 2008, has now gone into administration, saying it was unable to secure a further funding round. The news has come as a surprise to most – Kublax was an early player in [...]
Tue, February 16 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Last night, the news started to come out about Glitch, the new massively multiplayer online game that a few of the key cogs that built Flickr had been developing in secret for much of last year. Today, I got to see a still relatively early build of the game. It is both beautiful and impressive.
I [...]
Wed, February 10 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
EventVue set out three years ago to transform the way people interact with and network during events. Today, sadly, they have announced they are shutting down.
In an overlay message that appears now on the main site, co-founders Rob Johnson and Josh Fraser write:
Dear customers, friends, and fans -
We have made the difficult decision to shut [...]
Sat, February 6 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Glam Media, a vertical advertising network, has raised its fifth round of venture capital – $50 million from aeris CAPITAL, a Switzerland and Silicon Valley based private equity fund. The company is not disclosing the valuation of the round, but it is rumored to be around $750 million.
Glam’s last major funding was a $85 million [...]
Tue, February 2 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
