Sequoia bets on Stardoll, a site for little girls
Stardoll, a site where young girls can create and dress up celebrity dolls of themselves or others, is not your classic Silicon Valley high-tech sort of investment.
Yet Sequoia has invested $6 million in the Stokholm company, Stardoll told us yesterday. It is the latest example of how Sequoia is betting on niche consumer Web sites that don’t show any particularly amazing technology, but where their innovation is in market execution; they just do one thing… Continue Reading
VideoEgg opens service to most publishers
VideoEgg continues to make strides with its web video publishing service. The company is releasing an integration kit tomorrow that will make it easy for web site owners to add VideoEgg’s video publisher and player into their sites. This will make it easy for publishers to begin accepting video submissions from people – without the associated storage and bandwidth costs, since the video files live on VideoEgg’s servers.
Until now, people could only use VideoEgg, which… Continue Reading