Posted on 18 June 2011
Earlier this week GRP Parter VC and VC blogger Mark Suster gave the keynote talk at the Founder Institute’s Founder’s Showcase on “Getting Funded In A Frothy Market.” Suster began the keynote with the declarative statement that we’re in a bubble, “We’re in a bubble, you can quote me on that and I generally haven’t been saying that publicly,” he affirmed.
Tags: companies, Facebook, mark suster, months-it-takes, raise-money, silicon-valley, street, street-journal, suster, winter
Posted on 18 June 2011
I last wrote about Bitcoin less than a month ago.
Tags: bitcoin, concede-it-does, News, ohlig, senator, senator-charles, sweden, then-the-value, water
Posted on 18 June 2011
Editor’s note : This guest post is written by Adam Bosworth , co-founder of Keas , a startup that turns staying healthy into a game. Previously, he spearheaded Google Health, was chief architect at BEA Systems, and one of the fathers of XML
Tags: ajax, css, form, game-mechanics, gamification, google-health, juxtaposition, kids, learn-something, Mobile, News, staying-healthy, tech
Posted on 18 June 2011
Inside Network founder Justin Smith spoke with Bloomberg TV’s Emily Chang yesterday on the expected launch of Facebook’s iPad app.
Tags: credits-deal, emily-chang, expected, Facebook, inside-network, integration, Mobile, mobile-platform, other-choice, party-facebook, project, relationship, the-expected, traffic-growth, Video
Posted on 18 June 2011
Editor’s note : James Altucher is an investor, programmer, author, and entrepreneur. He is Managing Director of Formula Capital and has written 6 books on investing. His latest book he’s giving away free .
Tags: angel-checklist, buddy-media, checklist, Facebook, ideas, internet, james altucher, money, phone, reputation, space, statistics, time, Trends
Posted on 18 June 2011
Mike Agovino is the Chief Operating Office with Triton Media Group , a leading provider of applications, services and content to the media industry, specifically radio, with more than 6,000 station affiliations. Not long ago the music Industry was raking in $40 billion a year in sales. Today it sits at around $15 billion.
Tags: amazon, book, mike agovino, Mobile, music, pandora, past, slacker
Posted on 18 June 2011
Poor dad. He’s always getting shafted when it comes to Father’s Day. Usually he gets a tie or a chess set or a fancy prize-winning goat (it was a weird year that year at the Biggs house, let me tell you).
Tags: always-getting, biggs, contest, Facebook, fancy-lights, gaming-center, News, present, Video, wednesday
Posted on 18 June 2011
Intuary, a mobile app startup, recently launched its first app, called Verbally , which is designed to bring speech to those without. Verbally is an augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) solution built for the more than six million people in the U.S. suffering from speech disabilities — caused by Lou Gherig’s Disease, stroke, brain injury, Parkinson’s, cerebral palsy, autism, and more
Tags: assisted speech, Facebook, iphone, mayer-johnson, News, phrases-grid, speech, user, verbally, words
Posted on 18 June 2011
Online radio startup Earbits (YC Winter 2011) is announcing a seed round of funding today, having snatched up $605K from Y Combinator , Charles River Ventures , Start Fund and former Lala CEO Geoff Ralston . Earbits is unique in that its closest competitor is the newly IPOd Pandora from the listener’s side but from the musician’s side the model is completely different. Founder Joey Flores likens the site to payola 2.0
Tags: charles-river, combinator, earbits, Facebook, geoff-ralston, instead-banking, likens-the-site, musician, News, pandora, pandora-earbits, plans-on-taking, river, side-the-model, winter
Posted on 18 June 2011
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said today that it has approved Microsoft’s $8.5 billion cash takeover of voice and video-over-IP provider Skype. Microsoft officially announced its intent to acquire Skype back on May 10 and, since then, users have been taking to Twitter to blame Microsoft for Skype’s intermittent service.
Tags: european, Facebook, federal-trade, microsoft, microsoft-skype, News, outlook, skype, skype-microsoft, tech, time, Video, voip