Roundup: Facebook IPO talk, the video firehose, Ning’s ridiculous valuation & more
Here’s the latest action (updated):
Airborne mash-up: lawn chair travels 193 miles –Oregon resident Kent Couch tried to fly to Idaho last weekend — in an apparatus made out of his lawn chair carried by 105 large helium balloons. He carried instruments to measure altitude and speed, and also a parachute. He didn’t make it, though. (Image courtesy of AP)
More adult supervision at Facebook — Chamath Palihapitiya, a former AOL executive turned venture capital investor at the… Continue Reading
The top five VCs under 40 — what do you think?
The Mercury News has just run a story listing the top five venture capitalists under the age of 40. Reporter Constance Loizos has done a good job with the selection. Here’s her intro.
Below are the names of the VCs and links to short profiles.
1. Danny Rimer. Hits: Skype, Tellme.
2. Roelof Botha. Hits: YouTube.
3. Peter Thiel. Hits: Facebook
4. Peter Fenton. Hits: Reactivity, JBoss, Wily.
5. Kevin Efrusy. Hits: Facebook
Of these, who do you think is tops? Admittedly,… Continue Reading
Web 2.0 shakeout continued: What’s up at Insider Pages, Backfence, Meebo, others?
(Updated, rumor that Backfence is shutting down is wrong, see fresh post here)
Roelof Botha is one of the hotter venture capitalists these days. The Sequoia Capital venture capitalist led that firm’s investment into video-sharing site YouTube — and saw that company sold within a year to Google for $1.65 billion.
Now he’s apparently reviewing the progress of his companies. Palo Alto’s Meebo, the site that lets people use integrate their instant messaging service online, has been… Continue Reading