President Obama said that he is going to push Congress next year to move ahead on critical technology Read More
What you need to know – Friday 11/19/10
Business models/plans Business to Consumer Character Continuous deployment Customer demand Customer Service Entrepreneurship Failures/challenges Financial and Legal from investors Launching a business Lean startup Lessons and advice Making decisions Managing a business Marketing/Advertising Minimum viable product Pivot Product development Success factors Survival tips User experience Vision
Eric Ries on learning, failing, and pivoting
Author, speaker, and consultant Eric Ries spoke at Thursday’s Amplify event, where the former Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Read More
Gift card marketplace Plastic Jungle announced Thursday that it has closed a $10 million Series C round of Read More
Business to Business Business to Consumer Financial and Legal Internet Social Media Internet Web 2.0 Marketing/Advertising technology Trends and news
Gnip gets $2M to resell the Twitter firehose
[Updated at 7:51 PST, Nov. 19 to clarify details of funding round.] Gnip, a social media data provider Read More
Entertainment and Digital Media Financial and Legal Software as a Service technology Trends and news
Big Fish Games expands into new languages
Big Fish Games announced Thursday that it is expanding its games into several new languages and currencies. One Read More
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What you need to know – Thursday 11/18/10
Gowalla, a location based social network, has announced a partnership with Disney. This means that Gowalla will be Read More
Business to Business Business to Consumer Financial and Legal Internet Search Internet Social Media Internet Web 2.0 Software technology Trends and news
Williams: A million ways to Twitter revenue
While Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg had the honor of closing Web 2.0 Summit’s second day, Evan Williams, former CEO Read More
Entertainment and Digital Media Financial and Legal Internet Social Media Internet Web 2.0 technology Trends and news
GameGround raises $5.3M to socialize gamers
Finding someone who is playing the same game that you are, at the same time that you are, Read More
Business to Business Business to Consumer financial Financial and Legal Internet Social Media Internet Web 2.0 Software Software as a Service Trends and news
Teambox picks up $250K seed for collaboration
Collaboration software creator Teambox announced Tuesday that it has closed a $250,000 seed funding round, the organization’s second Read More
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What you need to know – Wednesday 11/17/10
LivingSocial, a social commerce startup that provides daily deals, has just bought the majority stake in Jump On Read More
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DST helping late-stage startups delay the IPO
Yuri Milner, CEO of Russian investment firm Digital Sky Technologies (DST), just stepped off the Web 2.0 Summit Read More
Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh and Gilt Groupe’s Susan Lyne sat down for an on-stage interview at the Web 2.0 Summit Read More
Entertainment and Digital Media Financial and Legal Internet Social Media Internet Video Internet Web 2.0 Software as a Service technology Trends and news
What you need to know – Tuesday 11/16/2010
PayNearMe, which makes alternative payments product, has just raised $16 million. The round was led by Khosla Ventures, other Read More
When we last covered PayNearMe in early September, the company (previously Kwedit) had just launched and had high Read More
How much would you pay for the letter “i”? .CO Internet S.A.S., the registry operator for the .CO Read More