Nice, this guy designed the NSX, that’s pretty kickass! also, “cars, email, digital photography, and high speed wireless”, sounds like I would fit in just fine…
First and foremost, Howard is a geek. After graduating from MIT, Howard didn’t join an investment bank; he joined Honda Motor Company where he served as an ergonomics [...]
Bootstrapping ftw.
Why Early Stage Venture Investments Fail | Union Square Ventures: A New York Venture Capital Fund Focused on Early Stage & Startup Investing:
Dick Costolo, co-founder of FeedBurner, describes a startup as the process of going down lots of dark alleys only to find that they are dead ends. Dick describes the art of a [...]
Ask The VC - Why Are Venture Capitalists So Hard To Deal With?:
One of the questions that we get most often is “why are VCs such jerks?” or some sort of derivation thereof. Specifically, people complain about:
- VCs not returning calls / being unresponsive
- VCs not understanding how good of an investment my company is
- [...]
FT.com / Companies / Media & internet - Microsoft in talks to buy Facebook stake:
While talks were still in the early stage, these people said that Microsoft was considering an investment of $300m to $500m for a 5 per cent stake of the company. Google is also said to be interested in an investment.
Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Yahoo’s “Project Fraternity” Docs Leaked
Our sources say that Facebook flatly rejected the $1 billion offer, looking for far more. Yahoo was prepared to pay up to $1.62 billion, but negotiations broke off before the offer could be made.
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I haven’t really been reading up on my subscribed feeds that were tagged “VC” for a long time, and this is pretty much why… Instead of getting an MBA or JD/MBA and then try to break into VC, I’m probably better off using that money to do my own shit and see what comes out [...]
If true, and it won’t really surprise me, that’s only f’king huge payday for the Facebook peeps… I definitely dig it more than MySpace, which is completely lame…
Some takes on this deal here and here.
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The San Jose Mercury News had an article this past weekend with the latest VentureOne numbers. Apparently $260 milllion was invested in “web 2.0″ companies in the first half of 2006, which means that the run rate for the year is $500 million.It’s not clear to me how they define “web 2.0″ but then it’s [...]
RED HERRING | Q&A: Del.icio.us Creator:
Joshua Schachter gives an update six months after being acquired by Yahoo.
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Andrew Ng - Internet technologist, entrepreneur and photographer. My passions are photography, fashion, music, piano, coffee (ristretto). I also like sports car and HPDE's, mechanical watches, fountain pens, and cool gadgets.
