Zivity CEO explains her new, less-profitable strategy

Zivity CEO explains her new, less-profitable strategy

Cyan Banister, co-founder of adult photography community site Zivity — a place where photographers and models post cheesecakey photo shoots in hopes of attracting fans — has been wrestling with the site’s slower-than-hoped-for growth rate since Zivity launched in 2007.

Last week, Zivity’s board approved an… Continue Reading

More job cuts hit Silicon Valley: Zivity and hi5

More job cuts hit Silicon Valley: Zivity and hi5

Even as the startup world watched bubbles popping in other industries over the past year, we hoped it wouldn’t hit us quite as hard. But it looks like we were hoping in vain. During the past week, a number of startups have announced job cuts… Continue Reading

Nudity-friendly site Zivity gets $7 million to compete with MySpace, sort of

Nudity-friendly site Zivity gets $7 million to compete with MySpace, sort of

Zivity, the start-up featuring semi and fully nude women in different poses, has a simple model: Make a social network similar to Facebook or MySpace, but with two separate user bases — one being subscription-paying members, and the other being models and photographers who post… Continue Reading

Mint wins Techcrunch. Latest start-ups: mEgo, Wixi, Xtr3D, Flowplay

Mint wins Techcrunch. Latest start-ups: mEgo, Wixi, Xtr3D, Flowplay

This just in: The winner of the Techcrunch40 event is Mint, the personal finance company (see our coverage here).

Meanwhile, below is the last batch of Techcrunch companies, from Tuesday’s afternoon session. After hitting VentureBeat readers with 40 start-ups over the past two days, we’re going… Continue Reading

Zivity, an adult social network, raises $1M before launch

Zivity, an adult social network, raises $1M before launch

Zivity, a new adult social network start-up, has raised a $1 million round of seed capital from Silicon Valley investors — as it prepares for launch.

It’s not a porn site, such as the newer sites Eroshare (pictures) or Pornotube (vidoes). Rather, it likens itself to… Continue Reading