While grinning investment bankers, safe pension funds and good returns from tech stocks may be hard to come by for the foreseeable future, the world does not lack start-ups promising to help indie musicians. Among them, ReverbNation, which has just raised $3 million, looks like a serious contender.
Companies like Topspin Media, an early-stage music marketing [...]
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Today, LP33.tv, the company formerly known as MyAWOL, goes live with its intensely ambitious site for unsigned musicians. The site centers around a video player that features original music videos, short band documentaries and news clips, all produced by LP33’s team. There are rapid edits, hipster rockers, punky pop princesses, and cooler-than-thou VJs, all hearkening [...]
When people think your downloadable software sucks, it’s generally hard to find out what you did wrong. Web-based analytics make it easy to track the number of downloads you get, but after that the information tends to dry up. That’s where Kampyle, an Israeli analytics startup, has found what looks like a good business opportunity. [...]
Peter Thiel, the famous PayPal founder, hedge fund manager and angel investor, has a minor tendency to put money into outlandish concepts.
The early Facebook investor is the leading contributor to the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, an organization dedicated to advancing humanity through the creation of a super-intelligent but friendly AI. He has also given [...]
After almost two months, the perpetually dysfunctional MobileChat has finally released an update to its instant messaging iPhone app. And you know what? It’s too late. I waited forever for an update and now I don’t care.
MobileChat had the opportunity to own cross-platform instant messaging on the iPhone. When it launched at the beginning of [...]
Cafe.com, a social network for game playing, has opened its previously invite-only platform to all developers.
While most of the attention in the social games space is focused on bringing games to existing social networks (mainly Facebook), Cafe.com is going the opposite way by creating a social network entirely dedicated to playing free online games. The [...]
The year is 2019. Respiratory Distress Syndrome, or REDS, has appeared in Stockholm, the first city outside of the tropics to see a case. The disease is known to overwhelm local health resources everywhere it goes, and news of health insurance companies going belly up has become routine. Word is spreading that in the absence [...]
As the world sits of the doorstep of the biggest financial disaster since 1931, is Silicon Valley biting its nails? Mayfield Fund doesn’t think so. The firm, once considered the peer of the biggest names in venture capital, has raised a $395 fund and says it did so within its anticipated timeline and amidst high [...]
If BranchNext, maker of Yotify, has its way, you will one day be able to get updates on everything that matters to you on the web. Do you like that shirt you saw on CafePress but don’t want to throw down all that cash? Yotify would love to tell you when it goes on sale. [...]
“Boulder is good for engineers — if you’re into innovation in rock climbing technology,” a friend once quipped about the outdoor-loving Colorado college town. But today, 12 startups from TechStars, a Boulder-based incubator, demoed their products in Mountain View, Calif. and did a good job of building on the city’s reputation as a budding center [...]
Norwest Venture Partners, one of Silicon Valley’s leading VC firms, has brought in Dror Nahumi, a former executive from one of Israel’s largest telecoms, to lead the firm’s investments in Israeli start-ups.
Israel’s start-up scene, which relies almost entirely on business from outside the country, has been posting good numbers. According to IVC, Israel’s VC research [...]
Right90, a Foster City, California, company specializing in “bottom-up sales forecasting” software, has raised $10 million in its third round of financing.
According to salesopedia, a handy glossary for sales and marketing terms, bottom-up sales forecasting is “an approach…which takes market conditions rather than the company’s objectives as its basis.” In practice, this means looking deeper [...]
The hyper-local concept, which revolves around content — like business reviews — targeted to local niches, has had it rough. Over the last 18 months, two venture-backed start-ups, Judy’s Book and BackFence, have had to shut down. Another site, Insider Pages, sold to Citysearch without generating much of a return to its investors. Only Yelp [...]
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Seedcamp is a European tech event that picks 20 promising European companies then gives a handful of winners £50,000 euro and three months in London to get their products ready for the next round. Last year, the judges chose five companies, one of which, Zemanta — a blog plug-in that helps you find content relevant [...]
Social media influencers of the world take note: You can now (theoretically) get the financial credit your influence deserves.
Today, BuzzLogic, a start-up capitalized to the tune of about $13.5 million, goes live with its its “Conversation Ad Network.” This network uses algorithms that ferret out the big time influencers and the lesser influencers over whom [...]
Kiwibox.com, an online magazine aimed at teenagers, is a remnant of the dot-com days. Unheralded and mostly undifferentiated, it launched in 1999 and somehow managed to slog its way through the bubble’s pop. In August, it relaunched with a social networking component and has just raised a low-seven figure round from a public company called [...]
UpTake , the travel search engine formerly known as Kango, has raised over $10 million in a second round of financing.
Unlike many content-focused travel sites, which seem to proliferate daily (see TripWolf, IgoUgo, TripSay), UpTake has no illusions about becoming the first place people turn for travel info. It has instead built a strategy [...]
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