dshen.com | David Shen Ventures, LLC - The Web and the World of Business:
This last Thursday betaworks had our annual Betaday, where we gather our entrepreneurs, investors, and other luminaries and prominent folks from the industry to meet and greet and have lively discussion on issues facing us today.It was held at the Hiro Ballroom at the Maritime Hotel. Swank mood lighting and hipster chill b (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Superfeedr announced seed investments from Betaworks and Mark Cuban.Superfeedr offers a service that grabs a variety of data sources, digests them, and regurgitates them into a standard format.Read the rest of this story »See Also:Mark Cuban Throwing Away Even More Money On Twitter5 Financial Rules for StartupsBig Funding R (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Watch out Lexis-Nexis and WestLaw! Google’s coming: You can now read full text legal opinions from U.S. federal and state district, appellate and supreme courts with Google Scholar. Expect an oligopoly (as in the legal research industry) to feel some pressure as Google rolls out another free and disruptive service. You can (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Superfeedr, a service that transforms a wide variety of feeds into normalized XMPP or Pubsubhubbub format, announced a seed round of funding from some very high-profile backers this morning. Betaworks, backers of Twitter, Bit.ly, Tweetdeck, Twitterfeed, Tumblr and more, and Mark Cuban, have invested in Superfeedr's parent (Read More)
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Superfeedr has raised a seed round from real-time incubator and investment firm Betaworks, along with Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban; the amount of funding was not disclosed. The company’s product—which is aimed at web developers—is used by subscribers to pull real-time fee (Read More)
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Hot Potato, an online startup that hopes to connect people watching live events in real-time, has raised $1 million in a funding round led by First Round Capital and RRE Ventures, MediaMemo’s Peter Kafka reports. Tech incubator and investor Betaworks, along with serial angel investor Ron Conway, also participated. The compa (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Hot Potato is, to quote Media Memo, “a buzzy startup that’s supposed to let users converse about a particular event, whether they’re attending it in person or watching from afar.” The company, led by eight-year MLB.com veteran Justin Shaffe, is still under wraps, but Media Memo writer Peter Kafka has outed a $1 million fund (Read More)
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The technology industry has a seeming lack of institutional memory - the constant cycle of invention and reinvention while barely looking to the past. It's so optimistic in nature.But we sometimes need to look to the past to sharpen our pattern recognition. We started betaworks by specifically looking at the past, and us (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
We're in the fourth wave of innovation on the Web, says Betaworks founder, John Borthwick on CNBC. It went from ISPs to portals to search, and now we're living with real-time information.But can it make any money? Maybe. Borthwick, and fellow guest, Steven Johnson, co-founder of Oustide-In.com, say local ads are key. Read t (Read More)
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DailyBooth, a nine-month-old social network that lets users share photos in real-time, has raised $1 million in a round of funding from a group of big name investors and VC firms, according to the WSJ. Investors include VC firm Sequoia Capital, tech investor and incubator Betaworks, Digg co-founder Kevin Rose, angel investo (Read More)
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We all want to create or invest in platform businesses - those that enable other businesses or participants to add features, content, build other things into/onto the platform, extract associated but not directly related content therefrom, thereby creating infinite scale and value. And valuation.But it doesn't work so easi (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
We're in the final days leading up to the ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit. People are coming from around the world to Mountain View, California this Thursday to talk about building and leveraging the diverse set of technologies referred-to as the real-time web.You should join us! If you can't, though, please plan on checki (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Following on the heels of a movement to make government transparent with technology, New York City is freeing more than 170 data sets from city agencies and hosting a competition for the best apps.They’ve partnered with ChallengePost, a New York-based startup backed by Twitter investor Betaworks, that puts together contests (Read More)
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"Lesson number two: don't get high on your own supply" -- Elvira HancockAt betaworks we try to (over) simplify some key principles (no business development, for example) to operate our businesses, and look for inspiration for those ideas in disparate pockets.One of our key learnings is that while it's really fun to live ins (Read More)
dshen.com | David Shen Ventures, LLC - The Web and the World of Business:
I just read this post, ReadWriteWeb: Top 5 Web Trends of 2009: The Real-Time Web where they are doing a series of posts related to what they think are the top trends affecting the Web in 2009. The top five trends are listed at the end of the post, which are:1. Structured Data2. The Real-Time Web3. Personalization4. Mobile (Read More)