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Late Night with Raj Kapoor: A look into the mind of VCs

by Krystal Peak, February 3, 2012 | Comments

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Vator Splash panel discuss worst pitches, who passed on Zappos and who Twitter should buy next

As this year's Vator Splash started to wind down, attendees got to see one VC lead a late night talk-show-esque panel with other investors, revealing the insight behind all those capital investments. Raj Kapoor, a partner with Mayfield posed some fun and tough questions to the panel. Meet the Vator Splash late night panel: Mike Hirshland: Founder of Resolute.vc, a ...

Super Bowl XLVI ushers in mobile-viewing era in sports

by Krystal Peak, February 3, 2012 | Comments

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SecondScreen companies want you to be on your mobile devices when watching Super Bowl ads

Just as the Nixon-Kennedy debates ushered in the marriage between TV and politics, there is a dash to bring mobile interaction into TV commercials -- especailly during watercooler events. Now advertisers and broadcasters are scrambling to change just how the Super Bowl is watched and interacted with. Despite a Giants-Patriots re-match, Super Bowl 2012 is striving to be a record-breaking, ...

Arianna.TV: HuffPo to launch a video news network

by Krystal Peak, February 3, 2012 | Comments

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By 2013, HuffPo wants to offer video content equivalent to 16 hours everyday

On the one-year anniversary of AOL acquiring the online publication for $315 million, the Huffington Post announced that it will launch an online video streaming network over the summer. With more people and companies utilizing the ease of producing and broadcasting their own online video channels (from YouTube to Google+), it looks like alternative news sources may be adopting ...

Vator Splash start-up winner: Flowdock

by Krystal Peak, February 2, 2012 | Comments

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Flowdock wants to bring your team and tools together; Astrid wins People's Choice Award

Enabling engineers and development teams with tools needed to get a group project done was worth the winning spot at Vator Splash this year. The judges commended Otto Hilska, the founder and CEO, for creating a tool that could fold well into any enterprise system and allow for better communication. It was a tough call to pick a winner in ...

StubHub founder: Have a stomach for the roller coaster

by Krystal Peak, February 2, 2012 | Comments

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Jeff Fluhr, founder of StubHub, Spreecast explains what it takes to keep your business on track

At this year's Vator Splash in San Francisco, entrepreneurs and local companies got a chance to experience a different kind of keynote from CEO and founder of a social video broadcasting Spreecast, Jeff Fluhr. After a brief introduction by Ellen Siminoff, President and CEO of the educational publishing company Shmoop University, Fluhr spoke to the crowd about how StubHub revolutionized the way ...

Box CEO: Tackling unsexy problems is good business

by Krystal Peak, February 2, 2012 | Comments

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Aaron Levie, founder and CEO of Box explains how they made enterprise software sexy

At this year's Vator Splash in San Francisco, Box's Aaron Levie shared his experience improving the enterprise software world. Levie originally created Box as a college business project with the goal of helping people easily access their information from anywhere in the world at anytime. Launched in a dorm room in 2005 with the help of CFO Dylan Smith, Box has grown to become ...

Zynga sees stock jump after Facebook IPO financials

by Krystal Peak, February 2, 2012 | Comments

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With 12% of its revenues coming from Zynga, Facebook shows just how important their relationship is

Zynga is experiencing, what I would like to refer to from now on as, 'The Facebook Bump.' Now that Facebook has disclosed its financials, and there is no going back from here, companies that are highlighted in the filings as boons to the social networking behemoth will likely be subject to 'The Facebook Bump.' In early trading Thursday morning, ...

Who is calling Facebook their billion-dollar deal

by Krystal Peak, February 2, 2012 | Comments

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From Mark Zuckerberg. Peter Thiel to Accel Partners, lots of people are smiling at Facebook's value

We have heard it before and will likely here it again in this case, Facebook will be another company to make 1,000 millionaires -- and a handful of billionaires. While it first was coined for the Google IPO in 2004, the Facebook IPO is roughly five times the size and will make a mountain of millionaires in the Silicon Valley ...

Zuckerberg: 'We make money to build better services'

by Krystal Peak, February 1, 2012 | Comments

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In the lengthy letter attached to the Facebook IPO forms, Zuckerberg explains the path of Facebook

Often times company CEOs want to put their own stamp or addendum to their IPO filing, especially since they move into a silent period until the road show to sell stock. In form with the opportunity, Mark Zuckerberg attached a rather lengthy letter to the S-1 form to discuss his motivation behind the company and the filing. Some of the ...

Zynga accounts for 12% of Facebook revenue

by Krystal Peak, February 1, 2012 | Comments

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The significant chunk may suggest weakness for Facebook, given Zynga's struggling stock price

Getting into bed with Mark Pincus and his social gaming creation Zynga, was a very profitable business choice on the part of Facebook. Zynga is mentioned two dozen times in the newly released Facebook IPO paperwork and shows that the advertising and virtual coins bought to play the games accounted for a 12% of the $3.7 billion Facebook claimed ...

Facebook files $5B IPO, the biggest Internet IPO ever

by Krystal Peak, February 1, 2012 | Comments

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The social networking company generated $3.7B in revenues in 2011, $1 billion in profits.

Sound the bells. Raise the flag. The moment that the public gets a glimpse at Facebook financials has finally arrived. After the market closed Wednesday, eight-year-old Facebook filed for an initial public offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission seeking to raise $5 billion, making the largest Internet technology offerings in the United States. The company generated $3.7 billion ...

Domo snaps up $20M for accessing business data fast

by Krystal Peak, February 1, 2012 | Comments

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The business intelligence SaaS company attracts $63M for data service in 8 months of existence

Business software-as-a-service company, Domo, announced Wednesday a $20 million Series A round of funding led by Institutional Venture Partners, bringing the company's total amount raised to $63 million. The Lindon, Utah-based company, launched by Omniture co-founder Josh James, focuses on an executive management platform for business intelligence in order to help managers and executives access data without IT. Often, ...

Videoplaza pockets $12M for monetizing online video

by Krystal Peak, February 1, 2012 | Comments

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The online ad server helped display 500% more ads last year to International viewers

With a strong demand for online video, many are looking for more ways to monetize the mobile consumption. One London-based company, Videoplaza, focused on selling ad management platforms for video, has secured a Series B Wednesday. The $12 million was led by Qualcomm Ventures and Innovacom. The company previously received funding from Creandum and Northzone, which also participated in funding ...

What to look for in Facebook's IPO filing

by Krystal Peak, January 31, 2012 | Comments

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Once the S-1 form hits the wires, experts look at how much and where the Facebook revenue is

Everyone is waiting for Facebook to file its S-1 for its initial public offer. Investors, techies and competitors are excited to pick apart all the financial inner workings and hidden gems that lay inside the highly anticipated document. Since its inception in 2004, the social networking site that capitalizes on consistent sharing of personal information has been tight-lipped about its ...

Andreessen Horowitz secures $1.5B fund

by Krystal Peak, January 31, 2012 | Comments

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Young Menlo Park venture firm now oversees $2.7 billion in funding

Startups looking to get off the ground and grab some venture funding are maturing in the right time since some firms are announcing they have secured some serious funding. Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, Ben Horowitz confirmed in a blog post Tuesday that his firm now controls $2.7 billion in funding over the last three years it has been in existence. ...

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