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RED HERRING | Q&A: Del.icio.us Creator:
Joshua Schachter gives an update six months after being acquired by Yahoo.

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Seriously, how many social networking sites do we need? $15m? holy shit man, maybe I’ll start one too… so I can buy up Loopwheeler and Spruce after I cash out… LOL…
You’re reading it here first: Bebo, an SF-based social networking site which is in the middle-ground between MySpace and Facebook, and among the biggest in [...]

Just registered for this, should be interesting…
Carnegie Mellon West - Events - 5th Annual Alumni Panel - Entrepreneurship 2006
The San Francisco Bay Area Alumni Chapter of the Tepper School at
Carnegie Mellon would like to invite you to our 5th Annual Carnegie
Mellon Alumni Entrepreneurship Panel on “Community, Content and
Creativity.”
DATE: Thursday, April 27, 2006 [...]

VC Primer from an Entrepreneur’s POV – The Five Year Plan

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From my Newisys days I was told by the guy who dealt with our VC activities day to day that anti-dilution clauses were some of the most evil things you could see on a tern sheet, basically you get screwed when you get a down round later (which in my experience happens more often than [...]

So it’s final, $1B for 5% stake huh? Am I the only one who believes there are much better ways to spend $1B? Like maybe investing into a couple hundred startups? Flickr and Delicious were much cooler than AOL… Is Google really getting [...]

After an attempt to imitate, Yahoo decided, once again, if they can’t compete with them, buy them…
y.ah.oo!We’re proud to announce that del.icio.us has joined the Yahoo! family.
del.icio.us: y.ah.oo!
More about this at Union Square Ventures Blog, it’s finally time for me to switch to Simpy… I wonder how hard it’d be to integrate it into Flock.

One of Yahoo’s vital points - perhaps it’s definitive vital point - is that it doesn’t innovate; it imitates. Even hyperimitates, if you like; soaking up like a sponge more and more corporate versions of cool ideas floating around the Net.
Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab

I don’t exactly agree with the Wallmart vs Target analogy, but yeah, they [...]

Searching For The Pod Of Gold:
This month, pioneer Adam Curry is launching a podcast network, with 30 to 50 shows that will split ad revenues. The concept won Curry a $9.8 million investment from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital, two top venture firms in Silicon Valley. “We saw the amazing adoption across [...]

Jeff Nolan switched from VC to ops, very interesting… and sounded like he’s at MySQL, although he wouldn’t say…
Earlier this year I started feeling a strong urge to do something different. I missed having direct operational control and I missed the sense of accomplishment that comes from successfully executing direct operational control
Venture Chronicles: Time for [...]