The venture capital valuations for still-have-that-new-car-smell startups like Quora, FourSquare, Blippy are reaching unprecedented levels, and we wanted to find out why. Top VCs Marc Andreessen, Ron Conway and David Hornik came by the TechCrunch offices to debate the issue.
Four month old Blippy is worth around $38 million. Quora, still in private beta, is valued [...]
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Right before the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas a couple weeks ago, some of you may have read about SimpleGeo’s awesome location data visualization tool called Vicarious.ly. The site showed location information coming in to SimpleGeo from Austin in realtime, and included elements such as Foursquare check-ins, Gowalla check-ins, geotagged pictures from Flickr, and geotagged [...]
Tags: Austin Texas, Couple Weeks, Data Visualization Tool, Elements, Festival Goers, Flickr, Fun, Hangovers, Hindsight, Ins, Location Data, March 11, March 17, Midst, Realtime, Span, Sxsw Festival, Tweets, Twitter
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