TechCrunch:
At our RealTime CrunchUp event today in San Francisco, the first roundtable is entitled “Filtering the Stream: Getting Rid of the Noise.”The panel is populated by a lot of big players in the space: Facebook, VP of Product Chris Cox, Google, Google Fellow, Amit Singhal, Seesmic, CEO Loic Le Meur, Futurity Ventures, investor/ (Read More)
National Angel Organization:
Alan Barrell, our 2009 National Angel Summit luncheon keynote speaker, has recommended the following reports be read by members of and stakeholders in our community.The first is titled Siding with the Angels: Business angel investing – promising outcomes and effective strategies.It reports on a research program into Angel a (Read More)
paidContent.org:
AppointmentCity.com has raised an $800,000 angel round of funding for its online appointment-setting and lead generation platform, per an SEC filing. CEO Sherwin Krug said the money came from a group of private investors, including O4 Corporation CEO Desmond Miller; the startu (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Kaltura, a popular open-source video solutions company, is announcing two new partnerships this week: one with LongTail Video to bring that company’s popular open-source video player JW Player to Kaltura, and one with Artivision, a company creating video monetization tools. These partnerships have huge promise for open-sour (Read More)
Submitted by Bambi
from blog:
Angel investor Aydin Senkut is our guest host analyzing Thread, the dating site leveraging FacebookThe online dating market is a $1 billion annual business. One company - Thread - is trying to go after that market by leveraging the connections on Facebook by creating a dating filter on top of the massive social network. The (Read More)
Submitted by Competent
from Google Reader:
← Presenting Founder Collective Pitch yourself, not your idea November 14th, 2009 | startups, venture capital There is a widespread myth that the most important part of building a great company is coming up with a great idea. This myth is reflected in popular movies and books: someone inve (Read More)
Submitted by Reechard
from Google Reader:
Three former Sunnyvale residents announced today they have sued the Mormon church, the Boy Scouts of America and their stepfather in San Francisco Superior Court for alleged childhood sexual abuse.The three men, who are brothers now aged 39, 41 and 43, claim that William E. Knox, 65, a Mormon church and Boy Scouts leader, m (Read More)
Vatornews.tv:
Angel investor Aydin Senkut on where he'd invest and sectors he'd avoidAydin Senkut, an early-Google employee-turned angel investor, is becoming known as one of the more prolific seed-to-early-stage investors in Silicon Valley, having invested in 40 companies since 2006. His portfolio consists of some well-known consumer In (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Imaging tech juggernaut Kodak is pretty keen on utilizing social media to connect with current and potential customers, boasting a presence on such sites as Facebook, YouTube and Flickr. The fact that it doesn’t own the @Kodak handle on Twitter hasn’t stopped them from being active on the popular micro-sharing service eith (Read More)
Submitted by Magitam
from Google Reader:
Today was the deadline that Calacanis had set for various angel groups — the Keiretsu Forum, Maverick Angels, AlwaysOn and several others — to stop charging fees for entrepreneurs to present their startups.These groups have pretty much ignored him, so Calacanis — who’s sold two companies and is now CEO of the venture-backe (Read More)
Submitted by Dcfemella
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E! Online
She already sounds like a budding cover girl...even if it's Parenting and not Vogue. Victoria's Secret supermodel Adriana Lima and her NBA hoopster hubby, ...
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the Frank Peters Show:
Photos for twitter? Sounds like a natural, so that's what former Tech Coast Angel Dan Caulfield has jumped into: TweetPhoto. Is it another case of "it's more fun to be an entrepreneur than an angel"? Well, not exactly, because now he's ex-CEO and there's trouble in paradise.TweetPhoto works with TweetDeck, which is on my de (Read More)
National Angel Organization:
Dave McClure, our Evening Keynote speaker at the 2009 National Angel Summit in Toronto, was brought to us thanks to our sponsor, Angelsoft. Speaking on the topic Startup 2.0: A Silicon Valley Story, he provided important insights regarding the current process of company formation and development in the Web 2.0 space, as we (Read More)
National Angel Organization:
Our videographers have now posted some very sharply edited Youtube videos, in ten-minute increments, depicting our National Angel Summit panels! Here are the six increments for the third panel.This panel was moderated by Basil Peters, CEO of Fundamental Technologies II, with the participation of Chris Fralic of First Roun (Read More)