Ticket search engine FanSnap scores $5.5M
FanSnap, a search engine that helps users find event tickets at the last minute, has landed $5.5 million in second-round financing to finish building out its service (currently in beta), and to add new ticket vendors. The round was led by General Catalyst Partners.
Before you think “Geez, as if… Continue Reading
LiveStub hopes to nuke StubHub, others, with commission-free scalping
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Thanks to the internet, selling tickets on the secondary ticket market — the act formerly known as scalping — has gone legit. EBay bought the market pioneer, StubHub, for $310 million. TicketMaster dropped $265 million to get its hands on TicketsNow, and top-tier VC firm… Continue Reading
Roundup: Dash Navigation, Flock, Greenspan’s tell-all, and more
Here’s the latest action:
1) Dash Navigation opens platform
2) Flock releases new browser, with Facebook in sidebar
3) Patriots successfully sue ticket scalper, StubHub
4) Google’s great quarter: Net income up 46 percent
5) Brad Greenspan’s tell-all essay on MySpace
6) Microsoft releases Popfly, allowing non-geeks to build apps
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Viagogo invades US online ticket-scalping market
Some entrepreneurs are bold, or foolhardy, depending how you look at it.
Eric Baker, co-founder of online ticket scalper StubHub, left in 2004, before StubHub went on to sell to eBay in January for $310 million.
Instead, he started rival Viagogo in London in 2005. The company… Continue Reading
eBay buys StubHub, online ticket reseller, for $310M
StubHub, an online site for reselling tickets to events, has been acquied by eBay for $310 million, minting the latest Silicon Valley millionaires in co-founders Jeff Fluhr and Eric Baker.
The controversial company has grown steadily, badgering eBay’s business for years. About 30 professional and college… Continue Reading