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Blog Post Archive
The controversial Anu Shukla returns with RewardsPay
Anu Shukla has quite a reputation preceding her. In 2009 she was the CEO of social monetization service, Offerpal. After a very public exchange with Michael Arrington in 2009 concerning Offerpal’s business model, Shukla stepped down from her post, and has since kept a relatively low profile. Show More Summary
DailyLook reveals its secret to customer loyalty and high conversions: Sell looks, not items
If a business model can be applied to women’s fast fashion ecommerce, chances are it has been. Flash sales, subscriptions, mystery boxes, and others have all been in vogue at one point or another over the last several years. But, in the end, none of these models really deliver a great shopping experience. For the self-confident and experimental fashionistas, mixing...
Fred Wilson on why corporate VCs suck
Forgive us for dwelling on it, but there were just so many great moments in our fireside chat with Fred Wilson last week. It was really one of my favorites this year. And two of my favorite moments were about the venture capital business. Wilson — a man known for his strong opinions — was at his most rabid...
The evolution of synth
[Music by Andrew Bean and David Holmes, Video by Sharon Shattuck] Today is the birthday of Thaddeus Cahill. What, you’ve never heard of Thaddeus Cahill? Don’t worry, he’s not exactly a household name. But perhaps he should be. in 1897, he invented a machine called the telharmonium in 1897. Using electrical signals transmitted over wires and...
Content marketing gets its magazine moment
Today, Contently, a marketplace where brands meet journalists, has launched a publication that simultaneously heralds the decline of journalism and the rise of “content marketing.” The Content Strategist promises “Insights and analysis...Show More Summary
Online, unplanned, and unorganized
It started in the late 80s, when pagers became cheap enough that every street-wise teenager got one as a way of bypassing the dreaded home phone that our parents might answer. Overnight, the process of making plans with our friends turned into the infuriating non-committal refrain of, “just page me” as we took advantage of our new mobile connectedness. Never...
Is Waze overvalued or is Foursquare undervalued?
If Reid Hoffman really were a Saint of the highly-valued niche social network, he’d be smiling down on last week’s $1 billion-plus acquisition of Waze. When reports were swirling that Facebook was interested in Waze, it was called an Instagram-like bid for more users. But that’s not really what either of those deals was about. Waze’s users would barely...
Quantum venture firm QWave announces its first round of investments
Scientists and futurists have been thrilled/terrified about the possibilities of quantum computers for decades. These insanely powerful machines can theoretically operate a million times faster than classical computers by transcending mere 0s and 1s to process computations in parallel (For more, read our interactive explainer or watch our video). Show More Summary
Smalltime Crowdfunding Crooks: Tracing a Kickstarter fraudster to other crowdfunding scams
Last week three filmmakers producing a documentary on crowdfunding noticed something fishy. They had come across a project, called Kobe Red, promising to provide a line of flavored beef jerky made from organic, beer-massaged beef from Japan. Show More Summary
Lock ‘em down: Soluto expands to the iPhone to help small businesses become more secure
I don’t have a passcode on my iPhone. Anyone who finds the device can run their finger along the bottom of its screen and instantly access my personal and professional email accounts, Facebook and Twitter profiles, address book, and anything else I might consider important faster than you can say “slide to unlock.” And I’m not alone — according to...
FiftyThree raises $15 million from Andreessen Horowitz to move beyond Paper
By now you’re probably familiar with Paper, a drawing application that has won an Apple Design Award and plenty of attention for its user interface, which has rethought the way basic interactions like pinch-to-zoom or color selection should work on a touchscreen. The app has been featured by Apple in the App Store, on its website,...
With 8 million users, Rounds is the Google Hangouts you’ve never heard of. Today it adds co-browsing
Airtime, we all recall, was a spectacular failure. The company spent $33.5 million and two years building a video chat service for friends, strangers and friends-of-friends. Only around 400 people used it per day. At the time, we chalked it up to the fact Skype had simply won video chat. We didn’t need another social network layer on...
Quarterly Co. is back from the brink thanks to its new CEO, Netflix co-founder Mitch Lowe
When Quarterly Co. opened its (digital) doors in late 2011, the business model was simple: connect consumers with their favorite celebrities and influencers who will then deliver quarterly boxes of personal favorites to these fans based on their contributor’s tastes and interests. Show More Summary
Matrix Partners’ Antonio Rodriguez on his investment in Oculus Rift
Fresh off a successful run of demos at gaming conference E3, Oculus VR, the maker of wearable virtual reality headset Oculus Rift, raised $16 million from Spark Capital and Matrix Partners (the firms confirmed the deal after we broke the story last night). I spoke with Antonio Rodriguez, who led the deal for Matrix. Erin Griffith: You noted...
This video shows why Vine is going to be a huge deal
Hundreds of thousands of people are out on the streets in Brazil tonight protesting deteriorating economic conditions. The photos out of Rio De Janiero, São Paulo, and Brasilia have shown the jaw-dropping scale, and the news reports have captured the urgency of the situation. But one six-second video clip tonight gave the world one incredibly powerful hit of what the...
Fred Wilson: For Foursquare, it’s not about the check-in. It’s about “maps with people in them”
When most people think of Foursquare, they immediately think of the “check-in.” And yet observers have been predicting the check-in’s demise since at least 2011. Whether due to faded novelty or general anxiety over leaving a digital footprint wherever you go (are you listening, NSA?), Foursquare has fallen out of favor among many members...
Vine and #music show that Twitterers would rather talk than listen
You don’t need to be told how popular Vine is. You’ve probably seen the reports about Vine surpassing Instagram on Twitter. The rumor that Instagram will be adding some video-sharing features later this week. The profile of Riff Raff, a dreadlocked white rapper who has quickly become one of the service’s most popular users. We’ve reached...
Chris Hughes’ eventful first year at the New Republic
A year ago, Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes bought the New Republic, a print magazine and Washington DC institution that, like its peers, was staring death in the face. Hughes came on as publisher and "Editor in Chief," supposedly with the aim of making it like the New Yorker of the US capital. Today, Hughes marked his one-year anniversary at the...
Virtual gaming headset Oculus Rift raises $16 million from Spark Capital
Fresh off the heels of a buzzy turn at gaming conference E3, Oculus Rift has raised its first round of funding, according to several people familiar with the situation. The Southern California company, which makes virtual reality headsets for gaming, raised $16 million in its first round of outside capital led by Spark Capital. The round has a $30 million...
Fred Wilson on Twitter’s “huge, enormous” mistake
It’s hard to let go of the narrative surrounding Instagram’s billion-dollar sale to Facebook, which is said to have been orchestrated personally by Mark Zuckerberg and, according to the New York Times, might have come directly after the company turned down a competing offer from Twitter. The story is simply begging to be written like a Valley-centric thriller:...