Scribd raises $3.7M, amid lots of interest
San-Francisco-based Scribd, the so-called “YouTube for documents,” has attracted a lot of attention — including plenty of suitors from Silicon Valley’s venture capital firms.
So it comes as no surprise that, shortly after launch, it has raised $3.7 million from Redpoint and original seed investor Kinsey… Continue Reading
Ignite lights up Web 2.0 Expo
O’Reilly Media’s Web 2.0 Expo kicked off yesterday in San Francisco, with 10,000 attendees from 59 countries. VentureBeat’s Mark Coker took notes from the day.
The highlight was the evening’s Ignite event: Imagine packing a large conference room with about 600 geeks, giving ‘em all the… Continue Reading
Y Combinator, the incubator with buzz
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Y Combinator has nailed the start-up incubator model, most likely because of its visionary leader.
Many famous incubators, from Idealab to CMGI, have come and gone over the years, and there are predictable autopsies suggesting the incubator model is flawed (see a list of articles about… Continue Reading
Scribd, the “YouTube for documents,” copyright violations and all
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Scribd, the new Silicon Valley company pitching itself as the “Youtube for documents” is getting some good traction, in part because it hosts copyrighted material.
Scribd launched three weeks ago, and is attracting 100,000 unique visitors a day. Those are the viewers. Far fewer have signed… Continue Reading
Start-up advice for entrepreneurs, from Y Combinator Startup School
Here’s a summary of the more compelling tips given by several tech industry luminaries — including Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Gmail creator Paul Buchheit, Sequoia Capital venture capitalist Greg McAdoo — at the Y Combinator Startup School event at Stanford this weekend.
The event attracted more… Continue Reading