Twitter cofounder raises money from Jack Dorsey, Bono, Al Gore for mysterious startup Jelly

May 16, 2013 10:58 AM Rebecca Grant
Rebecca Grant

In a blog post today, Biz Stone announced closing a funding round led by Spark Capital with participation from SV Angel. An elite group of individual investors also contributed, including Jack Dorsey, Bono, Reid Hoffman, Steven Johnson, Evan Williams, Al Gore, Greg Yaitanes, and Roya Mahboob.

LinkedIn turns 10, celebrates ‘Cinco de LinkedIn’

May 6, 2013 5:28 PM Chitra Rakesh
Chitra Rakesh

Mountain View-based LinkedIn employs over 3,700 folks and has already logged in 225 million members, and it's growing at a furious rate of more than two new members per second.

Recurious debuts Dinorama educational mobile game where the emphasis is on fun

April 16, 2013 4:30 AM Dean Takahashi
Dean Takahashi

With funding from Reid Hoffman's Greylock and other famous investors, Recurious could stand out among education app-makers.

Cory Booker confirms that LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman is among WayWire’s angel investors

March 11, 2013 6:52 PM Tom Cheredar
Tom Cheredar

WayWire, the video startup that counts super-hero Newark, New Jersey mayor Cory Booker among its founders, has confirmed to VentureBeat that LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman is one of its angel investors.

Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg, CEO of LinkedIn? Almost

February 6, 2013 1:44 PM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

Current Facebook chief operating officer and former Google VP Cheryl Sandberg was almost LinkedIn's chief executive officer. Almost.

A visual journey through 2012′s biggest funding highlights (infographic)

January 3, 2013 10:01 AM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

VC funding was down 15 percent in 2012, while crowdfunding grew 91 percent, as a new infographic from Startups.co shows

Steve Ballmer makes case for total Windows domination

November 14, 2012 8:58 PM Dylan Tweney
Dylan Tweney

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sketched his view of technology's future in an onstage discussion with LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman tonight in a wide-ranging discussion that covered everything from Surface to Windows Phone to Xbox to cloud services.

Crunchfund founder quizzes Reid Hoffman about what it’s like to be ‘ridiculously wealthy’

September 10, 2012 12:46 PM Dean Takahashi
Dean Takahashi

Reid Hoffman says that when he visits a university to give an entrepreneurship lecture now, he gets asked for money.

SeeYouInCourtVille: law firms investigating Zynga for possible insider trading

July 27, 2012 3:42 PM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

Three months before releasing a quarterly earnings report that slaughtered an already-decimated stock, Zynga executives and investors unloaded some of their stock, raking in more than $500 million dollars. Now, multiple law firms are investigating whether the company or its …

Zynga insiders cashed in $516M of stock — three months before the stock cratered

July 26, 2012 4:27 PM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

Zynga insiders, including chief executive Marc Pincus, cashed out in April, selling 43 million shares for over $516 million -- just before the stock price cratered.

Rally.org lets causes share stories, raise money

June 26, 2012 7:40 PM Rebecca Grant
Rebecca Grant

Social fundraising startup Rally.org has raised $7.9 million in a first institutional round of funding.

The platform helps people to rally around causes they believe in. Anyone from individuals to large organizations can share their stories and raise money from …

Social entrepreneurs use startups to change the world

February 14, 2012 9:25 AM Christina Farr
Christina Farr

Guest Post

Muhammed Yunus, a 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of Grameen Bank, sparked a movement with the simple question: “If you are a socially conscious person, why don’t you run your business in a way that will help achieve …

Jack Dorsey, Ron Conway to attend The Crunchies Awards

January 27, 2012 11:59 AM Sarah Mitroff
Sarah Mitroff

It’s time to get excited for The Crunchies Awards. The final line-up of notable guests has been released, making us all the more excited to co-host this star-studded event.

Harris Wittels, “Parks and Recreation” writer and all-around funny guy, will …

Online photo editor Aviary hopes to take Picnik’s place

January 23, 2012 2:01 PM Sarah Mitroff
Sarah Mitroff

Sad that Google’s online photo editor Picnik is meeting its demise this year? Well, veteran photo editing service Aviary is plotting to take its place. On Monday the company announced it’s bringing its photo editing services to the Web with …

Presents for social gifting service Wrapp: $5M more funding, Reid Hoffman joins board

January 18, 2012 4:30 AM Devindra Hardawar
Devindra Hardawar

Who says gift cards aren’t cool? After landing $5.5 million in a first round of funding last November, social gifting service Wrapp, which lets you easily send gift cards to friends through Facebook, today announced that it’s received an additional …

Edmodo wants to be the cloud leader in EdTech, raises $15M more

December 8, 2011 6:55 AM Chikodi Chima
Chikodi Chima

Education technology is a red-hot market, and both startups and investors are taking note.

Edmodo, a social network for education, stands poised to benefit tremendously from the great shifts taking place in educational delivery. The company announced today that it …

Philip Rosedale’s new startup creates marketplace for small, fun jobs

November 1, 2011 5:00 AM Dean Takahashi
Dean Takahashi

From the maker of Second Life, here comes an interesting new startup. Coffee & Power says it is creating an online marketplace where people can buy and sell small jobs.

The San Francisco-based startup is the brainchild of Philip Rosedale, …

Google+ Hangouts make sense for collaboration at work or play

September 20, 2011 3:50 PM Meghan Kelly
Meghan Kelly

Google released a slew of updates for its social network Google+ today. With these new updates, Google+ is turning into the social network of choice for web and mobile collaboration.

Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn, described Facebook as the backyard …

Demo: Reid Hoffman gives advice for entrepreneurs (video)

September 13, 2011 10:21 AM Meghan Kelly
Meghan Kelly

Editor's Pick

LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman might be one of the most successful entrepreneurs to emerge from the post-dot-com era, and today he shared some of the secrets to his success.

Hoffman started LinkedIn on May 5, 2003 and took the company …