Bootstrapping: Weapon of Mass Reconstruction

Published in June 2nd, 2009
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Business, Funding, IPO, Internet, Investments, Money, Society, Technology, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, angel investors
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“Sramana Mitra’s Bootstrapping: Weapon of Mass Reconstruction is a book for our time because it’s something real out of Silicon Valley. No more stories about legendary VC fundings of startup-to-IPO in six months. …This book has some fascinating histories of the different paths people take to entrepreneurship, and the difficulties they face. I would only […]

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2008’s Most Popular Web 2.0 Sites

Published in February 26th, 2009
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Advertising, Business, Companies, Database, Education, Entertainment, Funding, Games, Internet, Investments, Marketing, Media, Mobile, Money, Multimedia, Music, Search Engines, Semantic Apps, Semantic Web, Shopping, Social Networking, Society, Software, Technology, Telecom, Travel, Virtual Worlds, Voice, Web 2.0, angel investors, eCommerce, video
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Today we are living in web 2.0 times more than ever before. PR, press coverage, buzz, evangelism, lobbying, who knows who, who blogs who, who talks about who, mainstream media and beyond - all of those words found in the dictionary of almost every new web site that coins itself as web 2.0, but as […]

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LinkedIn is out pitching for a major round at the staggering $1B pre-money

Published in May 6th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Advertising, Allen & Co, Bessemer Venture Partners, Business, European Founders Fund, Funding, Greylock, Internet, Investments, Money, Sequoia Capital, Social Networking, Society, Software, Technology, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, angel investors, the European Founders Fund
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The rumors across the valley are that LinkedIn is out trying to raise a new round at $1B pre-money valuation. They are using the service of the New York based secretive investment bank Allen & Co. where the Managing Director Dave Wehner seems to be engaged with the effort to help LinkedIn secure its next […]

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VC deals show a decline in the first quarter of 2008

Published in April 21st, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Business, Funding, Internet, Investments, Money, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Software, Technology, Web 2.0, angel investors
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While angel investors are taking on venture capitalists and have last year invested as much as VCs did the VC deals show a decline in the first quarter of 2008. According to a new report from PricewaterhouseCoopers, venture capital investment in the United States headed south in the first quarter of 2008.
The report found that […]

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Angel investors have invested as much as $26 billion in start ups last year, almost as much as VCs did

Published in April 18th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Band of Angels, Business, Funding, Internet, Investments, Keiretsu Forum, Money, Software, Technology, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, angel investors, eCoast Angels
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Today we have read over a few technology and business blogs that angel investors have poured $26B in start-up companies for the last year alone. Aside the fact this is an impressive amount of money it is also very close to what VCs did themselves - $29B. Furthermore the number of deals backed up by […]

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Federated Media raises huge round of funding - $50M

Published in April 17th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Advertising, Business, Funding, Internet, Investments, JP Morgan, Marketing, Media, Money, Oak Investment Partners, Omidyar Network, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, angel investors
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 In a period full with launch of new ad networks and deals about such Federated Media has raised a huge amount of money - $50 million in a C round led by Oak Investment Partners and Omidyar Network as a returning investor from their first round. The rumor has it the company has turned down […]

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Looks like SpinVox is about to get a real run for the money, Nuance enters their niche

Published in April 2nd, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in ABN Amro, Allen & Co, Blue Mountain Capital Management, Funding, GLG Partners, Goldman Sachs, Investments, Mobile, Money, Public Companies, Software, Technology, Telecom, Toscafund Asset Management, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, angel investors
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Everything leads us to the simple conclusion that Nuance is taking on SpinVox’s voice-to-text technology. It has always been interestingly enough to see how pouring big VC money into an idea, market niche, product or solution is always attracting some bigger player to try and exploit it. It seems the case with SpinVox today is […]

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An online career community that connects people through personal relationships and affiliations

Published in March 29th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Business, Funding, Internet, Investments, Money, Shasta Ventures, Social Networking, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, angel investors
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Doostang is an interesting concept built upon the belief that over 50% up to 70% of recruiting today is done through the personal network of contacts and a large portion of which is done by email communication. Using your personal network is the most effective way to find the right candidate for a position and […]

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Wisdom of the crowds principle effectively applied to predict markets, events

Published in March 25th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Advertising, Business, Entertainment, Internet, Investments, Marketing, Money, Sherpalo Ventures, Sierra Ventures, Society, Technology, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, angel investors
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While doing our daily research on the web 2.0 deals we came across a very interesting start up that deserves to make our web 2.0 innovations list - Predictify.
Essentially it is a very interesting and pretty innovative idea of using the wisdom of the crowds and the collective intelligence principles to predict in behalf of […]

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SocialMedia totals $4M in funding and is one of the top ad platforms for Facebook

Published in March 23rd, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Advertising, Business, Charles River Ventures, Facebook, Funding, Internet, Investments, Jeff Clavier, Marketing, Media, Money, Social Networking, SoftTechVC, Technology, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, angel investors, myspace
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Creating Facebook applications is already big business online. Facebook created a special fund to invest in popular applications for their social platform and there are also several venture capital firms who are keeping an eye on the sector for the next hot or modern Facebook application to invest in. Monetizing the traffic generated from those […]

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SpinVox raises $100M at a whopping $500M valuation

Published in March 21st, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in ABN Amro, Allen & Co, Blue Mountain Capital Management, Business, Funding, GLG Partners, Goldman Sachs, Investments, Mobile, Money, Software, Technology, Telecom, Toscafund Asset Management, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, angel investors
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SpinVox, a London based voice-to-text technology is raising $100M round of funding from a bunch of high-profile investors among which are Goldman Sachs, GLG Partners, Blue Mountain Capital Management and Toscafund Asset Management. The service can basically be described as a solution that transcribes voicemails to text so that they can be more easily digitized, […]

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The modern Boo.com and pets.com

Published in March 20th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Advertising, American Capital, Business, Entertainment, Funding, Google, Internet, Investments, Marketing, Money, National Lampoon, Search Engines, Social Networking, Society, Technology, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, angel investors
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Just like their ancestors Boo.com and pets.com during the dot com boom times companies like Geosign and Capazoo have also spent huge amounts of money in no time and reached nothing but grand failures. But unlike those dot com stars from the past, which at least had serious business models, their modern equivalents from the […]

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If your business is impacted by the weather WeatherBill might be a good solution for you

Published in March 15th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Allen & Co, Atomico, Business, First Round Capital, Funding, Howard Morgan, Idealab, Index Ventures, Internet, Investments, Joshua Schachter, Money, Software, Technology, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, angel investors
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An interesting start-up that we have on our long list with funding deals here is under no doubt WeatherBill.
The San Francisco based WeatherBill started their service, which lets you cover your business from potential losses that might occur due to bad weather conditions, in early 2007 with a bunch of famous private and institutional investors […]

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Jivox, yet another video ad network, has raised $2.7M

Published in March 11th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Advertising, Business, Funding, Internet, Investments, Media, Money, Multimedia, Opus Capital, Software, TV, Technology, Web 2.0, angel investors, video
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The funding was led by Opus Capital and also includes investments from individual investors including Jivox founder Diaz Nesamoney. The funds will be used to continue development of the Jivox online video advertising platform, as well as to expand the company’s sales and marketing efforts. No other names of private investors are publicly disclosed.
Jivox is […]

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Mint keeps on taking money, closes its third round of funding

Published in March 6th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Benchmark Capital, Business, Felicis Ventures, First Round Capital, Funding, Hite Capital, Internet, Investments, Money, Ram Shriram, Ron Conway, Shasta Ventures, Sherpalo Ventures, Software, Technology, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, angel investors
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Mint.com, the site that helps you find better interest rates on bank accounts, credit cards, and other financial products. But here is the interesting part. The site officially launched in September 18, 2007, after nearly two years of development and significant private beta testing, and in just a few weeks, after being announced winner on […]

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Some of the Silicon Valley’s top non-Web innovations VCs spent money on

Published in March 5th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Battery Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Funding, Games, In-Q-Tel, Investments, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Menlo Ventures, Money, Multimedia, Pitango Venture Capital, Retail, Semantic Apps, Sequoia Capital, Shopping, Software, Spencer Trask Ventures, Technology, Venture Capital, angel investors, ePlanet Ventures, video
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Forbes has assembled a very interesting list of some of the Silicon Valley’s most interesting and coolest innovations beyond the web start-ups. What is being said as a fact is that venture capitalists have poured over $30B into more than 2500 new ventures in 2007 alone. Some of them have to be non-traditional the media […]

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Mint.com - the financial-planning startup with an army of high-profile investors

Published in February 21st, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Business, First Round Capital, Funding, Internet, Investments, Money, Ram Shriram, Ron Conway, Shasta Ventures, Software, Technology, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, angel investors
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First off, Mint.com is a neat, well organized and professional web site to put your finances under control. Explained in layman terms Mint helps you find better interest rates on bank accounts, credit cards, and other financial products. But here is the interesting part. The site officially launched in September 18, 2007, after nearly two […]

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Sharing digital media start up has raised $2.5M

Published in February 18th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Arts, Entertainment, Funding, Games, Internet, Investments, JK&B Capital, Media, Mobile, Money, Music, Social Networking, Software, Technology, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, angel investors, video
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A couple of months ago a tiny start up called Treemo has taken its first round of funding in the $2.5M range. The funding was led by JK&B Capital. The company is a media sharing service for the Web and mobile phones service and like many other players in the space Treemo looks to appeal […]

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InfoSpace has sold its mobile unit for $135M to Motricity, the second prepares to go public

Published in February 14th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Advanced Equities, Business, Carl Icahn, Funding, IPO, Investments, Media, Mobile, Money, New Enterprise Associates, Software, Technology, Telecom, Venture Capital, angel investors
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One of the Internet’s oldest companies InfoSpace is probably not performing well since they are largely selling out their businesses. With its switchboard and local directory business having already been sold to Idearc for reportedly $225M, what’s left of InfoSpace was the mobile services division, which serves up managed services infrastructure for mobile carriers. This […]

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Sequoia Capital invested in TokBox, hoping for Web’s next big communication tool

Published in February 5th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Funding, Internet, Investments, Money, Sequoia Capital, Software, Technology, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, angel investors, video
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Sequoia Capital has recently provided $4 million in Series A round of funding to Tokbox - a new startup providing real-time video chat via a browser. Sequoia joins an already impressive collection of angel investors including founding members of YouTube, Bebo, and Netscape along with execs from Slide, PayPal and Cisco. This investor network alone […]

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