Dan Kaplan
Once upon a time, Dan considered himself a magazine journalist with dreams of "The New Yorker" and a couple of well-reviewed but only mildly successful books. Then one day, life, as it is known to do, decided it was time for rebirth. Like so many things before it, this rebirth was conceived on a mostly-empty plane to Reno. Now, instead of magazine writing, Dan would plunge into the world of New Media and write for Matt Marshall's blog.
It's funny how it goes.
Recent Posts
PartnerUp’s Weekly Opportunities
Below you’ll find this week’s PartnerUp Opportunities of the week.
PartnerUp, a Deluxe Company, is an online community for entrepreneurs and startups that help them find people for their businesses, such as co-founders, business partners, advisors, board members, and skilled technical people. In addition, PartnerUp helps entrepreneurs ask for and offer up advice, find commercial real estate, and find resources for their businesses.
The PartnerUp team blogs on the StartUp Blog, an up-and-coming blog about entrepreneurship, small… Continue Reading
PartnerUp’s Weekly Opportunities
Below you’ll find this week’s PartnerUp Opportunities of the week.
PartnerUp, a Deluxe Company, is an online community for entrepreneurs and startups that helps them find people for their businesses, such as co-founders, business partners, advisers, board members and skilled technical workers. In addition, PartnerUp helps entrepreneurs ask for and offer up advice, find commercial real estate and locate resources for their businesses.
The PartnerUp team blogs on the StartUp Blog, an up-and-coming site about entrepreneurship, small… Continue Reading
PartnerUp’s Weekly Opportunities
Below you’ll find this week’s PartnerUp Opportunities of the week.
PartnerUp, a Deluxe Company, is an online community for entrepreneurs and startups that help them find people for their businesses, such as co-founders, business partners, advisors, board members, and skilled technical people. In addition, PartnerUp helps entrepreneurs ask for and offer up advice, find commercial real estate, and find resources for their businesses.
The PartnerUp team blogs on the StartUp Blog, an up-and-coming blog about entrepreneurship, small… Continue Reading
The first 100 tickets to The Crunchies 2008 are on sale!
Over the last few weeks, we’ve been taking nominations for the Crunchies 2008. You have voiced your support for your favorite startups, the most impressive entrepreneurs and the coolest gadgets.
Now, we’re opening up sales for the event.
This year’s Crunchies will be held at San Francisco’s Herbst theater at 7:30 on the evening of January 19th.
Today, we and our co-hosts, TechCrunch, GigaOm and Silicon Alley Insider, are puttting the first 100 tickets on sale.
Later this week,… Continue Reading
PartnerUp’s Weekly Opportunities
Below you’ll find this week’s PartnerUp Opportunities of the week.
PartnerUp, a Deluxe Company, is an online community for entrepreneurs and startups that help them find people for their businesses, such as co-founders, business partners, advisors, board members, and skilled technical people. In addition, PartnerUp helps entrepreneurs ask for and offer up advice, find commercial real estate, and find resources for their businesses.
The PartnerUp team blogs on the StartUp Blog, an up-and-coming blog about entrepreneurship, small… Continue Reading
PartnerUp’s Weekly Opportunities
Below you’ll find this week’s PartnerUp Opportunities of the week.
PartnerUp, a Deluxe Company, is an online community for entrepreneurs and startups that help them find people for their businesses, such as co-founders, business partners, advisors, board members, and skilled technical people. In addition, PartnerUp helps entrepreneurs ask for and offer up advice, find commercial real estate, and find resources for their businesses.
The PartnerUp team blogs on the StartUp Blog, an up-and-coming blog about entrepreneurship, small… Continue Reading
VentureBeat sponsors MobileMonday’s Mobile Peer Awards 2009
VentureBeat is happy to announce our sponsorship of MobileMonday’s Mobile Peer Awards competition for 2009.
The competition starts with 68 mobile startups — one for each of MobileMonday’s 68 chapters around the world. Out of these 68, a jury of industry experts, investors and entrepreneurs will select 20 finalists to present on stage in Barcelona on Feb. 16 during the 3GSM Mobile World Congress.
MobileMonday started in 2000 as a monthly gathering of Finnish mobile pioneers who… Continue Reading
PartnerUp’s Weekly Opportunities
Below you’ll find this week’s PartnerUp Opportunities of the week.
PartnerUp, a Deluxe Company, is an online community for entrepreneurs and startups to help them find people for their companies, such as co-founders, business partners, advisors, board members and skilled technical people. In addition, PartnerUp helps entrepreneurs ask for and offer up advice, find commercial real estate, and locate resources for their businesses.
The PartnerUp team blogs on the StartUp Blog, an up-and-coming resource about entrepreneurship, small… Continue Reading
PlugandPlay Tech Center hosts WebPlay 2008
Tomorrow, the Plug & Play Tech Center will host WebPlay 2008, a half-day event which will feature presentations from a range of internet startups and panels on topics like trends in online advertising, digital media and viral growth.
Speakers include: Lance Tokuda, CEO of Facebook application maker RockYou, Akash Garg, Co-Founder and CTO of social network Hi5, Seth Sternberg, Co-founder of web-based IM service Meebo, Shervin Pishevar, CEO of Social Gaming Network and many more.
Go here… Continue Reading
Announcing The Crunchies 2008
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 Theater in San Francisco, VentureBeat — along with co-hosts TechCrunch, GigaOm and Silicon Alley Insider — will award the pictured Crunchies statues… Continue Reading
PartnerUp’s Weekly Opportunities
Below you’ll find this week’s PartnerUp Opportunities of the week.
PartnerUp, a Deluxe Company, is an online community for entrepreneurs and startups that help them find people for their businesses, such as co-founders, business partners, advisors, board members, and skilled technical people. In addition, PartnerUp helps entrepreneurs ask for and offer up advice, find commercial real estate, and find resources for their businesses.
The PartnerUp team blogs on the StartUp Blog, an up-and-coming blog about entrepreneurship, small… Continue Reading
PartnerUp’s Weekly Opportunities
Below you’ll find this week’s PartnerUp Opportunities of the week.
PartnerUp, a Deluxe Company, is an online community for entrepreneurs and startups that help them find people for their businesses, such as co-founders, business partners, advisors, board members, and skilled technical people. In addition, PartnerUp helps entrepreneurs ask for and offer up advice, find commercial real estate, and find resources for their businesses.
The PartnerUp team blogs on the StartUp Blog, an up-and-coming blog about entrepreneurship, small… Continue Reading
PartnerUp’s Weekly Opportunities
Below you’ll find this week’s PartnerUp Opportunities of the week.
PartnerUp, a Deluxe Company, is an online community for entrepreneurs and startups that help them find people for their businesses, such as co-founders, business partners, advisors, board members, and skilled technical people. In addition, PartnerUp helps entrepreneurs ask for and offer up advice, find commercial real estate, and find resources for their businesses.
The PartnerUp team blogs on the StartUp Blog, an up-and-coming blog about entrepreneurship, small… Continue Reading
“Downturn” roundtable event is tomorrow: What questions are on your mind?
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 last recession and each will have a unique take on how entrepreneurs can get through this one. We have built… Continue Reading
Meeting of the Mobile Minds: Under the Radar Conference
Ah, to be amongst fellow smartphone addicts! Head to Under the Radar: Mobility in Mountain View on November 12 to celebrate it and hear about what’s coming in 2009. Meet mobile startups from around the world and network with the industry elite.
Under the Radar: Mobility will showcase 32 mobile startups from as far away as Taiwan in sectors like location-based services, marketing/advertizing, mobile payments, video and more. Presenting companies include: Instictiv, Mofuse, Billing Revolution, Bambuser,… Continue Reading
Virtual goods company Viximo offers online communities an alternative to advertising
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 virtual goods platform that allows a publisher to offer their own version of Facebook Gifts, which are nice-looking graphical icons… Continue Reading
Lala convinces major record labels to be a little less dumb
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 for the right to stream it as often as you want. The Palo Alto-based company has now convinced the major… Continue Reading
PartnerUp’s Weekly Opportunities
Below you’ll find this week’s PartnerUp Opportunities of the week.
PartnerUp, a Deluxe Company, is an online community for entrepreneurs and startups that help them find people for their businesses, such as co-founders, business partners, advisors, board members, and skilled technical people. In addition, PartnerUp helps entrepreneurs ask for and offer up advice, find commercial real estate, and find resources for their businesses.
The PartnerUp team blogs on the StartUp Blog, an up-and-coming blog about entrepreneurship, small… Continue Reading
Open Mobile Summit: Last chance for discounts
The Open Mobile Summit, San Francisco Nov 19-20, explores the open agendas of all the different players – from handsets and software to operators, application and mobile web players. See the agenda here.
Register today and save $300 with the code VBEAT, or follow this link. Do it before Oct 7., and save $400. Plus: There are 10 passes at just $495 for qualified application developers. To apply, email karen@openmobilesummit.com. Speakers include:
Marco Boerries, EVP, Yahoo
Mary McDowell,… Continue Reading
Amidst the cacophony of music start-ups, ReverbNation echoes
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 platform, and Tunecore, which offers a relatively easy way to distribute albums across multiple online stores, have partial answers to… Continue Reading