Magnify360, which changes web sites based on your behavior, gets boost
Until now, Web sites have been surprisingly dumb. They don’t change much to to cater to your specific tastes — and that’s despite all the advances in behavioral targeting technology.
You may be familiar with Amazon.com, which offers you a customized site page on your past book or product selections. And a number of other recommendation services help e-commerce and news sites do something similar: They offer up retail products or news items according to what… Continue Reading
VentureBeat raises $320,000 seed round, traffic growing
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VentureBeat has just raised a seed round, and I wanted to be the first one to let you know. The news is beginning to leak after we filed a regulatory document.
VentureBeat has grown steadily since launching more than a year ago. We’ve been hiring writers and we have record traffic. I’ve bootstrapped the company thus far, and while it’s been rewarding, there’s just so much more we’d like to do. We’ve been pretty much in… Continue Reading
MHS Capital targets $40M for new venture capital fund
MHS Capital Partners, a San Francisco-based VC firm focused on Internet and software companies, is targeting $40 million for its inaugural venture capital fund, according to a regulatory filing cited by PE Week. It already has around $26 million in capital commitments, PE Week reported.
Have you ever noticed? No venture firms ever seem to die (they never tell you, as they wither away). But we keep getting new firms.