The No. 2 executive at daily-deals purveyor Groupon, Rob Solomon, has taken advantage of the company’s unlimited-paid-days-off policy — for good.
In an email to Groupon staff that was forwarded to VentureBeat, CEO Andrew Mason announced that Solomon (pictured), who …
How committed is Facebook to broadening its revenue streams beyond advertising?
So serious that it’s formed a subsidiary, Facebook Payments, Inc., and is registering it in a host of states.
The move could signal an intent by the world’s largest …
For 16 years, I’ve written about startups and the people who found them. I’ve even worked at startups for about half of my career as a reporter and editor — for the past year, at this startup called VentureBeat.
But …
The South By Southwest Interactive conference could prove a crucial testing ground for Google’s ambitions to compete with Facebook.
The hot rumor now sweeping the hallways of the Austin Convention Center, where the conference has been going since Friday and …
The Internet, like soylent green, is made of people. And startups can never get enough.
That’s the insight I’ve gathered from years of attending South By Southwest Interactive, the annual conference/festival/five-day rave held every year in Austin in conjunction with …
Does the world need a gay social network?
The answer is no, if you ask entrepreneur Jason Goldberg, who folded up shop on Fab.com after raising $3 million to build an online community targeted at gay men and is in …
ModCloth, the hot e-commerce startup backed by Accel Partners, First Round Capital, and the Floodgate Fund, laid off just over a dozen of its 248 employees today, the company told VentureBeat.
The company, which sells vintage clothing and apparel from …
The second wave of e-commerce is coming, buoyed by a flood of fresh cash. European flash-sales site operator Privalia, which offers short-term, steeply discounted fashion deals in Spain, Italy, Brazil, and Mexico, is expanding to Germany with a $280 million …
Team VentureBeat is still recovering from DEMO Spring 2011, the product-launch conference we co-produced in Palm Desert, Calif. this week. From Sunday afternoon into the wee hours of Wednesday morning, we went nonstop.
As exciting as it is to tell …
The Startup America Partnership, a nonprofit foundation dedicated to backing entrepreb neurship, announced today that it is teaming up with DEMO, the IDG- and VentureBeat-produced product-launch conference series, to expand opportunities for startups.
DEMO executive producer and VentureBeat editor-in-chief Matt …
Missing the action in Palm Desert, Calif., where the best startups and smartest companies out there are presenting their products? One way to listen in is on Twitter, where I’m providing real-time commentary on the #democon hashtag. But you can …
Manilla is one of 53 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Spring 2011 event taking place this week in Palm Desert, Calif. After our selection, the companies pay a fee to present. Our coverage of them remains …
“Pics or it didn’t happen,” the kids like to say on Internet discussion boards when confronted with an unlikely scenario that calls for photographic verification.
How about making that “Pics and it didn’t happen”? That’s the scenario that unfolded after …
From laser waxing to fusion barbecue, it seems there’s nothing Groupon can’t — or won’t — sell. But the email discount offers service could be on to a lucrative new market with its latest discount.
If you wanted to get …
For a company named after a magical talisman of vision, Palantir didn’t seem to see what was coming these past few weeks.
The secretive data-analysis startup, based in Palo Alto, Calif. and backed by early Facebook investor Peter Thiel, has …
A new wave of e-commerce is coming, backed by tends of millions of dollars from Silicon Valley’s savviest investors, that’s reinventing more than just how consumers shop online.
From One Kings Lane to Plum District and Abe’s Market, from Stella …
When VentureBeat first reported on Silicon Valley investor Marc Bodnick’s departure from Elevation Partners, the private-equity firm he cofounded, I noted his enthusiasm for Quora, the online question-and-answer community founded by Charlie Cheever and Adam D’Angelo, two early Facebook employees.…
It’s official: Elevation Partners has announced the resignation of Marc Bodnick from the high-profile private-equity firm, just a couple days after VentureBeat first reported his impending departure.
While Bodnick hasn’t commented on his plans, he’s widely understood to be joining …
Marc Bodnick, the cofounder of Silicon Valley private-equity firm Elevation Partners, is leaving to join Quora, according to multiple reports. (VentureBeat first reported his pending departure yesterday.)
Quora is a hotly watched, much-discussed question-and-answer service that won buzz from the …
One of the most-watched private-equity partnerships in Silicon Valley is coming apart.
Marc Bodnick, a cofounder of Elevation Partners, is planning to leave, according to a source close to the firm.
His departure could threaten Elevation’s plans to raise a …
