Fanbase, a web directory of athletes and their teams
updated
A new web directory of sports teams and athletes called Fanbase has launched today, aiming to mobilize fans around pages of any team, from football to golf at any level, from professional to college and high school.
It is co-founded by Nirav Tolia, the entrepreneur who led the fast-growing product review site Epinions during the last Internet boom — a company that experienced a wild ride of boom, bust, and then partial redemption — all amid… Continue Reading
Benchmark invests in Seeking Alpha; deal struck with Yahoo
Silicon Valley venture firm Benchmark Capital has invested in a finance blog company called Seeking Alpha, a surprising move in our view, given that blogs are difficult to monetize.
Venture firms want to invest in companies going for billion-dollar markets, and Seeking Alpha is a two-year old boot-strapped company that is losing money, the company’s chief executive David Jackson confirmed with us earlier today. Blogs have become mainstream, too, so what do you think Benchmark sees… Continue Reading
When is the best time to raise venture capital?
The notable $11 million investment in blog and web-site hosting company FreeWebs today made us scratch our head a bit.
We wrote about the investment in our “wire” section (left-hand side of our homepage), and mentioned there are many competitors to FreeWebs, several of them quite large. Why would a company of a dozen or so employees, which managed to bootstrap it for so long (they went without funding for five years) and which is now… Continue Reading