Archive for May, 2007

The Big 4

Monday, May 28th, 2007

Consulting Firms:
 
Pricewaterhouse Coopers
KPMG
Earnest & Young
Delloite & Touche
CapGemini
BearingPoint
Accenture
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New Incubators

Monday, May 28th, 2007

The new incubators differ from those of the early dot com bubble in the following ways:
 
Old Incubators
- Clustered together in a single building
- Websites launched after $2m in development
- Incubator owns up to 100% of it’s companies
New Incubators
- Engineers work on ideas remotely from anywhere in the world
- Websites launch on as litte as $50k
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Google Buys Feedburner for $100m

Monday, May 28th, 2007

May 2007, Google buys RSS management company Feedburner for $100m. Feedburner was founded in 2003 and raised $10m in 2 rounds of funding.
 
Portage Ventures funded their $1 million Series A round in 2004. The $9 million Series B round was closed in mid 2005from Mobius Venture Capital and Union Square Ventures
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Buzznet gets $6m in funding

Monday, May 28th, 2007

Buzznet.com got $6m in funding from Redpoint Ventures and Anthem Venture Partners in May 2007 when it had 6 million member.
$1 usd per member.
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Trulia and Zillow Funding

Monday, May 28th, 2007

Trulia, a real estate search engine, gets $10m Series C funding from Sequoia Capital in May 2007.
Trulia received earlier funding of $7.7m from Accel and Fayez Sarofim & Co.
Zillow, a competitor of Trulia, has raised $57 million and Redfin has raised $9 million in two rounds.
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Social Conscience Venture Capital

Sunday, May 20th, 2007

Omidyar Network supports institutions and structures that foster conditions for individuals to improve the quality of their lives. These conditions include equal access to information, resources and tools, the ability to connect to others with shared interests, and a sense of ownership over outcomes.
 
Omidyar Network was founded in June 2004 by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar […]

Link Authority

Sunday, May 20th, 2007

There are two primary factors Google and other search engines modelled from Google consider when ranking websites:
 
The quantity and quality of websites that link in to your website.
 
This is also known as “link authority”. By quality, quality sites are basically websites that have high google page ranks; major corporations, trade groups, government organizations and especially .edu […]

List of Venture Capitalists

Sunday, May 20th, 2007

NATIONAL NETWORKS
ACE-Net (The Angel Capital Electronic Network) ACE-Net was developed by the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Office of Advocacy. Only entrepreneurs who can sell security interest in their companies can enroll. There is an annual fee to enroll — fees vary by state. Maximum fee is $450.Sweet Spot:
Although companies can raise up to $5 […]