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Mobilize Your Holiday Shopping

by Ezra Roizen, December 11, 2007 | Comments

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Scott Dunlap CEO of NearByNow discusses how his service is a virtual aid to physical shoppers. The company aggregates real-time inventory data and provides consumers with easy-to-use tools for finding and reserving desired items. The service drives traffic to shopping malls and enables store operators to promote to actively shopping consumers in real-time on their mobile phones. Watch NearByNow's video pitch in which Scott talks about how he came up with the idea while shopping with his wife.

Blue Lane Technologies ready to ride virtualization security wave

by John Shinal, December 10, 2007 | Comments

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It's nice to have as one of your customers a company that executed the most successful technology IPO of the year.That's the sweet spot occupied right now by Blue Lane Technologies, which sells its security appliance to VMWare, the EMC Corp. unit that rode the booming virtualization wave to a monster stock offering in August. Having a marquee customer adds to the accolades that Blue Lane has collected, including several awards for best products at industry trade shows and being ...

Keiretsu Forum's Randy Williams is expanding the market for angel investing

by John Shinal, December 7, 2007 | Comments (3)

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Randy Williams, CEO of Keiretsu Forum, is blunt when telling why he started the network of angel investors. It was his own "lack of discipline and expertise as a private equity investor," says Williams, who retired as the CEO of a bank in the mid-1990s and decided to diversify his savings through investments in the tech sector. At the turn of the century, as the tech bubble popped and Williams was working with investment bankers who were "turning small liquidity ...

Ingres, open-source database firm, lining up ducks for possible 2008 IPO

by John Shinal, December 5, 2007 | Comments

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As Ingres Corp. tries to position itself for an IPO next year, the open-source database software provider has been doing all the things investors like to see.The company has put in place an executive team that knows its way around Wall Street and is billing new customer accounts on a subscription model that provides a more predictable revenue stream. Ingres has posted two cash-flow positive quarters this year, CEO Roger Burkhardt told me, and is predicting it will be cash-flow ...

MC Hammer and Geoffrey Arone on Dancejam.com, Part 2

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, December 4, 2007 | Comments

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In this second part of the interview with Dancejam.com co-founders MC Hammer and Geoffrey Arone, the company founders talk to Bambi Francisco about the business model of the site, the competitive advantage, partnership opportunities with big media companies, promoting the DanceJam brand at offline events, various ecommerce opportunities around different dance genres, and the funding situation of the company. To see the first part of this interview, click here.

DanceJam.com co-founders MC Hammer and Geoffrey Arone on how to create the ultimate dance destination [Part 1]

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, December 2, 2007 | Comments

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In this two-part interview with DanceJam.com co-founders MC Hammer and Geoffrey Arone, the company founders talk about how this new social media site is going to become the ultimate repository for all things dance. Before delving into the DanceJam story, Hammer provides a very interesting overview of the evolution of dance from the 1920s to the present. Geoffrey and Hammer then elaborate on how the idea for the site was born and how they became partners in the venture. They also ...

Move Networks signing up major customers for Web TV streaming platform

by John Shinal, November 29, 2007 | Comments (1)

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One of the more compelling stories at the recent NewTeeVee conference in San Francisco was being told by Move Networks, whose broadcast-quality Web TV platform is being used by major industry players including ABC, Fox, the Discovery Channel, CWTV and Mexico's Televisa. The Utah-based company's brain power comes from a group of engineers who set out to solve the problem of network latency, which so often degrades the viewing experience of video delivered over the Net. Their solution is called ...

Quickeo looking for niche with email-based file sharing

by John Shinal, November 28, 2007 | Comments

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While Silicon Valley is home to more venture-backed startups than anywhere else on the planet, the region has no monopoly on innovative thinking.And while France's economy is often portrayed in the U.S. media as being long on socialism and short on entrepreneurial activity, startup executives from that country do manage to create successful exits for themselves and their investors.One example is Arnauld de la Fouchardiere, the CEO of Quickeo, whose software lets Web users share multimedia content via private emails.In 2004, de ...

Richard Rosenblatt on demand in an interview with Bambi

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, November 26, 2007 | Comments (1)

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Demand Media's Richard Rosenblatt has solidified his position as an Internet visionary, with what could arguably be history’s boldest strategy for monetizing shoeboxes full of content. One might even say that Rosenblatt’s Demand is not only clearing out shoeboxes, but attics and bottom drawers of their long-held secret recipes and scribblings on scrap paper about how to accomplish various tasks. The vision is as ambitious as its logic is simple. Demand Media is giving people tools and incentives to create ...

Eurekster's Steven Marder on rapid growth of social search and "swickis"

by John Shinal, November 25, 2007 | Comments

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A growing number of bloggers and other topic-specific Web publishers are discovering the benefits of combining algorithmic-based search with the wisdom of the crowd and other social networking attributes.More than 23,000 of these publishers are using customized social search widgets supplied by Eurekster to improve the search experience for their site users, according to Steven Marder, co-founder and CEO of the San Francisco-based startup.Marder says more than 100,000 of these "swickis" are in use. That's double the number Eurekster reported ...

Mohr Davidow partner Jim Smith says MDV likes entrepreneurs who obsess about their business

by John Shinal, November 14, 2007 | Comments

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For the latest in our series on what venture capitalists look for when evaluating deals, we traveled down to the heart of the West Coast VC industry -- Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park -- to sit down with Jim Smith and Bryan Stolle of MDV. The firm, formerly known as Mohr Davidow Ventures, specializes in early-stage investments and is one of the oldest and most successful VC firms in Silicon Valley. MDV, which manages $1.4 billion, has backed a ...

Tumri, in end run around keywords, lets sellers generate ad units directly from listings

by John Shinal, November 14, 2007 | Comments

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The September acquisition of Blue Lithium by Yahoo for $300 million, like AOL's takeout of Tacoda in July for a reported $275 million, put a spotlight on ad networks that let online ad buyers use something other than keywords to find potential buyers. These behavioral-targeting networks are seen by many as the next step in the evolution of online advertising, and the price Yahoo paid showed how valuable they could be. Tumri's approach is slightly different, says CEO Hari Menon, ...

The Latest Thing in eCommerce: You

by Ezra Roizen, November 12, 2007 | Comments

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Many of the experiences we have were conceived and designed by someone else prior to us having them. When we go to the supermarket, for instance, it seems our entire experience – however idiosyncratic - has been played out and anticipated. The same is true when we go out to dinner, to a movie, or the airport. Disneyland is probably the extreme case. We live in a world in which macro contexts are largely set for us. Our own micro ...

MeeVee CEO Michael Raneri says video startup is considering a sale

by John Shinal, November 12, 2007 | Comments

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It turns out MeeVee CEO Michael Raneri had a lot more on his mind than he shared with us during our interview a few weeks back. The online video startup has hired Pagemill Partners to advise it on the possibility of a sale after being approached by multiple strategic buyers, Raneri told me, after I asked him about a published report on NewTeeVee.com. The Silicon Valley firm, which started out as an online video guide, has been expanding its offerings ...

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