VentureBeat is happy to officially announce The Crunchies 2008 — the second year of this tech-startup awards ceremony.
With the economic downturn setting in, there may be fewer business successes to celebrate for the foreseeable future. So it’s more important than ever to recognize companies and leaders of excellence.
On January 9th at the Herbst [...]
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The VentureBeat “how to manage your start-up in a downturn” roundtable event happens tomorrow. We’ll be talking to John Doerr from VC firm Kleiner Perkins, Ram Shriram — one of Google’s first investors — Max Levchin of Slide and Jason Calacanis of Mahalo, among others.
Despite the dot-com bust, many of our participants flourished during the [...]
With a recession looming, many online entertainment sites who currently depend on ad revenue are exploring a new source of revenue: Virtual goods.
Boston-based Viximo wants to make it as easy for publishers to earn money from selling virtual goods as it is to run ads on a website. And more profitable.
Viximo provides a plug-and play [...]
Have you ever been sitting at your computer, wishing you could listen to your music collection without being forced to open a desktop application? If so, Lala is launching just the thing for you.
Since the beginning of the summer, Lala has offered a service that lets you stream any song one time, then pay $.10 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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