tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85971852024-03-07T10:01:16.498-06:00Bubble 2.0"Please, God, just one more bubble!"Charliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09533945287965379343noreply@blogger.comBlogger646125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597185.post-54335535253552257662008-02-12T14:18:00.001-06:002008-02-12T14:18:17.600-06:00Dance Video Site DanceJam Gets $3.5 Million Second RoundFrom <a href="http://www.paidcontent.org/">PaidContent.org</a>: <blockquote><br /> <p><a href="http://www.dancejam.com">DanceJam</a>, the dance video site started by MC Hammer and others, has raised a $3.5 million second round from Softbank Capital, Rustic Canyon and various individual investors, according to <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/08/softbank-rustic-canyon-put-35-million-into-dancejam/">TechCrunch</a>. This brings the company's total raise to $4.5 million, having previously raised $1 million, from various angels, including Michael Arrington. The site offers a place for users to upload videos of themselves dancing, while competing against and rating other users.<br /></p><br /> </blockquote><br />This story has inspired me to resurrect this blog, originally started in <a href="http://bubble20.blogspot.com/2004/10/bubble-20.html">2004</a>. It's good to be back.<br />Charliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09533945287965379343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597185.post-1156964605567958652006-08-30T14:02:00.000-05:002006-08-30T14:03:25.600-05:00<a href="http://net-savvy.blogspot.com/2006/08/jargon-20.html">Jargon 2.0</a>: "Whether you like the terminology or not, things are changing on the Internet, which is increasingly embedded in people's lives. It's not hard to see how changes in the online environment will affect your business sooner or later (and my money's on sooner)." —<a href="http://net-savvy.blogspot.com">The Net-Savvy Executive</a>Charliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09533945287965379343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597185.post-1150283841407003162006-06-14T06:17:00.000-05:002006-06-14T06:17:21.503-05:00<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060613/bs_nm/markets_equities_global_dc;_ylt=AjiTFLpjnKK4yOFQFBhW.m4DW7oF;_ylu=X3oDMTBhZDJjOXUyBHNlYwNtdm5ld3M-">Global equity meltdown costs investors $2 trillion</a>: "The month-long slide in global stocks has wiped out at least $2 trillion in wealth, leaving investors few alternatives to preserve their holdings aside from bonds and money markets." —<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/">Yahoo! News</a><br /><br /><i>Yahoo! indeed.</i>Charliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09533945287965379343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597185.post-1149771277289198352006-06-08T07:54:00.000-05:002006-06-08T07:54:58.383-05:00Implosion<a href="http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/0619/168.html?partner=rss">Implosion</a>: "When even Robert Toll's Toll Brothers, the high-end builder, suffers cancellations, you know the real estate boom is over." —<a href="http://www.forbes.com/?partner=rss">Forbes.com News</a><br /><br /><i>Whoa, been a while since my last post! Miss me? You did short <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=TOL">TOL</a>, right? Don't worry, yet more losses remain to be had.</i>Charliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09533945287965379343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597185.post-1145553669940687372006-04-20T12:21:00.000-05:002006-04-20T12:21:10.026-05:00Google is Yahoo 2.0<a href="http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/CommentView.aspx?guid=2052c7be-78b5-483f-bca2-346fab854597">Google is Yahoo 2.0</a>: "I have to agree with Mike Torres, <a href="http://spaces.msn.com/mike/Blog/cns%21FBABF8E542F5D5DB%216248.entry">2006 is really 1998 in disguise</a>. With the release of <a href="http://pages.google.com/">Google Page Creator</a>, <a href="http://finance.google.com/">Google Finance</a>, <a href="http://calendar.google.com/">Google Calendar</a> and the upcoming <a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=121">GDrive</a> (aka <a href="http://geocities.yahoo.com/">Yahoo! GeoCities</a>, <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/">Yahoo! Finance</a>, <a href="http://calendar.yahoo.com/">Yahoo! Calendar</a> and <a href="http://briefcase.yahoo.com/">Yahoo! Briefcase</a> knockoffs) it is now clear to me that Google's master plan is to become <a href="http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/005665.html">Yahoo! 2.0</a>." — <a href="http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/">Dare Obasanjo</a>Charliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09533945287965379343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597185.post-1144962824260406122006-04-13T16:13:00.000-05:002006-04-13T16:13:44.320-05:00Move Along Folks -- No Domains Here<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/InfectiousGreed?m=2636">Move Along Folks -- No Domains Here</a>: "The last thing the domain business needs is oodles of VC-come-lately Sand Hill capital. " — <a href="http://paul.kedrosky.com/">Paul Kedrosky (UCSD)</a>Charliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09533945287965379343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597185.post-1144874013563151952006-04-12T15:33:00.000-05:002006-04-12T15:33:33.626-05:00Shed no tears for the housing speculator<a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/04/12/flippers/index.html?source=htww.rss">Shed no tears for the housing speculator</a>: "Florida real estate market down, housing flipper haters up." — <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/index.html?source=rss">How the World Works</a>Charliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09533945287965379343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597185.post-1144801532534362472006-04-11T19:25:00.000-05:002006-04-11T19:25:32.583-05:00<a href="http://markpincus.typepad.com/markpincus/2006/04/today_marks_the.html">Today marks the peak of social networking</a>: "Painful reminders of March 2000 when the last people to show up were still pitching ecommerce it ideas." — <a href="http://markpincus.typepad.com/markpincus/">Mark Pincus</a>Charliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09533945287965379343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597185.post-1144177906065425942006-04-04T14:11:00.001-05:002006-04-04T14:11:46.066-05:00<a href="http://ricksegal.typepad.com/pmv/2006/03/poster_for_all_.html">Poster for all new start ups</a>: "If ever there was a poster that will sum up the current fun and game of' ‘Web 2.0’, this is it."<br /><p><img alt="gapingvoid.com" hspace="1" src="http://ricksegal.typepad.com/pmv/wimp.jpg" vspace="1" border="2" /></p> — <a href="http://ricksegal.typepad.com/pmv/">Rick Seagal (JLA Ventures)</a>Charliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09533945287965379343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597185.post-1144177896509407362006-04-04T14:11:00.000-05:002006-04-04T14:11:36.593-05:00<a href="http://radventure.blogspot.com/2006/04/what-if-we-run-out-of-fools.html">What if we run out of fools?</a>: "The Indian stockmarket is going berserk. There's a Sergei-Bubka-type phenomenon of setting new records & breaking the same the very next day. While I broadly think India's going places and all that, the stockmarkets have gotten way ahead of fundamentals" — <a href="http://radventure.blogspot.com">Anand Sridharan (Bessemer)</a><br /><br /><i>If you run out, just wait few years. They seem to multiply.</i>Charliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09533945287965379343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597185.post-1143667313357188872006-03-29T15:21:00.000-06:002006-03-29T15:21:53.440-06:00<a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/markets_stocks_dc">Nasdaq hits 5-year high</a>: "U.S. stocks rallied on Wednesday, with the Nasdaq Composite rising to its highest since February 2001, as positive comments by a brokerage about wireless technology makers helped boost tech shares, including Qualcomm Inc." —<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/i/1885">Reuters</a>Charliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09533945287965379343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597185.post-1143561538648299722006-03-28T09:58:00.000-06:002006-03-28T09:58:58.726-06:00<a href="http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2006/03/facebook_for_sa.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_techbeat">Facebook for Sale; But $2 Billion?</a>: "So says our Steve Rosenbush in a story today. Apparently, the social-networking site turned down an offer for $750 million. Even that's way more than the $580 million News Corp. paid for the much larger MySpace last year." —<a href="http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/">The Tech Beat</a><br /><br /><i> Those who cannot <a href="http://archive.salon.com/21st/rose/1998/11/10straight.html">learn</a> from <a href="http://www.siliconbeat.com/entries/2005/11/15/friendster_up_for_salester.html">history</a> are doomed to repeat it.</i>Charliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09533945287965379343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597185.post-1143336307289261712006-03-25T19:25:00.000-06:002006-03-25T19:25:07.380-06:00<a href="http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/its_a_great_time_to_start_a_business.php">It's a great time to start a business</a>: "I say it's never been a better time to start a <i>business</i>. You know, the kind that develops a product or service and asks money for it. <ol><li>You don't need VC diesel to get your motor running.</li><li>You can actually charge money for valuable services.</li><li>You don't need mainstream tech to make a dent.</li><li>You don't need to live in San Francisco to make it big.</li><li>You don't need a swarm of worker bees to take off.</li></ol>"Thus, I believe it has never been easier to build a great business for the web, if your intentions are to simply be profitable and please a constituency of passionate users." — <a href="http://37signals.com/svn/">Signal vs. Noise</a><br /><br /><i>Nicely put.<i></i></i>Charliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09533945287965379343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597185.post-1143314104883224312006-03-25T13:15:00.000-06:002006-03-25T13:15:04.973-06:00<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/InfectiousGreed?m=2517">What Me No Company</a>: "It is back to feeling these days that if you don't have a startup you're somehow not au courant" —<a href="http://paul.kedrosky.com/">Paul Kedrosky (UCSD)</a>Charliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09533945287965379343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597185.post-1143304199760145572006-03-25T10:29:00.000-06:002006-03-25T10:29:59.843-06:00<a href="http://www.caterina.net/archive/000965.html">It's a bad time to start a company</a>: "t's a terrible time to start a company, especially here in the middle of it all, in the Bay Area. Why? <ol><li>Everybody else is starting a company.</li><li>Your competition just got funded too.</li><li>Talent is scarce again.</li><li>You can't operate in obscurity anymore.</li><li>Web 2.0 isn't all that.</li><li>There's too much going on.</li></ol> "I had this same stay-out-of-the-water-there's-sharks feeling circa 1998. Maybe my hype antibodies are just kicking in." —<a href="http://www.caterina.net/">Caterina.net</a>Charliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09533945287965379343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597185.post-1143046007031494372006-03-22T10:46:00.000-06:002006-03-22T10:46:47.100-06:00<a href="http://gigaom.com/2006/03/22/return-of-rakesh-mathur/#comments">Return of Rakesh Mathur</a>: "Mathur’s co-founder in this business is Brad Husick who worked at Vignette and had co-founded NetGravity, an online advertising company that merged with Double Click." —<a href="http://gigaom.com">Om Malik</a><br /><br /><i>I haven't seen Brad since the last bubble. Welcome back, Inspector Gadget!</i>Charliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09533945287965379343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597185.post-1142874010492774522006-03-20T11:00:00.000-06:002006-03-24T13:06:27.790-06:00<p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/ventureblog?m=166">It's Not Web 2.0, It's The Next Net</a>: "One particular quote that resonated well with everyone and has already started making its way around the Next Net world (in fact, it was just used by Adam Gross in a presentation he gave at the <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/etech/">O'Reilly Etech Conference</a>) was Bill Burnham's triple 'A' business model:<blockquote><i>It's the triple 'A' business model: AJAX, Adsense and Arrogance.</i></blockquote>"Despite the fact that essentially everyone in the room had embraced AJAX and many of the folks in the room had also incorporated Adsense in some way or other, everyone went out of their way to make clear that their businesses were in no way defined by the Double 'A,' let alone the Triple 'A.'" —<a href="http://ventureblog.com/">VentureBlog</a>Charliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09533945287965379343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597185.post-1142615016758897222006-03-17T11:03:00.000-06:002006-03-17T11:03:36.830-06:00<a href="http://www.siliconbeat.com/entries/2006/03/17/amidzad_the_rug_merchants_turned_venture_capitalists.html">Amidzad: The rug merchants turned venture capitalists</a>: "Peter Thiel, who is now an investor, running a firm called Founders Fund told us that early-state, first-round venture capital valuations 'are close to where they were in 1999 and 2000.'" —<a href="http://www.siliconbeat.com/">SiliconBeat</a>Charliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09533945287965379343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597185.post-1142605245235657152006-03-17T08:20:00.000-06:002006-03-17T08:20:45.306-06:00<a href="http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2006/03/cramer_on_today.html">Cramer on Today Show</a>: "I was towelling off my head, so I may have misheard this at 7am, but:Did I hear Jim Cramer on the Today Show declaring this to be the start of a new Bull Market? Mark today's date: 3/17/06" —<a href="http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/">The Big Picture</a><br /><br /><i>Again, for posterity.</i>Charliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09533945287965379343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597185.post-1142602400074227232006-03-17T07:33:00.000-06:002006-03-17T07:33:20.126-06:00<a href="http://www.forbes.com/facesinthenews/2006/03/17/google-acquisition-billionaire-cx_ck_0317autofacescan01.html?partner=rss">Google's Billionaires Go Buying</a>: "Page and Brin's company shelled out $130.5M on acquisitions in 2005." —<a href="http://www.forbes.com/news/?partner=rss">Forbes.com News</a><br /><br /><i>I'm just noting this so one day we can look back and reminisce. Whether it's "Remember when Google only spent $130M in a whole year?" or "Remember when Google could afford to buy things willy-nilly?" remains to be seen.</i>Charliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09533945287965379343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597185.post-1142566982342474332006-03-16T21:43:00.000-06:002006-03-16T21:43:02.406-06:00<a href="http://www.fuckedgoogle.com/fuckedgoogle/2006/03/washington_post.html">Washington Post: 35 percent of Google's pay-per-click revenue is FRAUD</a>: "A firm called Radiator.com got sick and tired of what appeared to be totally bogus clicks on their ads, then they hired an outside auditing firm to help them figure out what was going on. Because of course, Google completely ignored their requests- everyone knows that's their standard business operating procedure. The findings? Around 35 percent of all clicks from their Google ads were complete fraud, and about 17 percent of the clicks from their Yahoo ads were complete fraud" —<a href="http://www.fuckedgoogle.com/fuckedgoogle/">F'edGoogle</a><br /><br /><i>This is going to end <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0413845/">badly</a>.</i>Charliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09533945287965379343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597185.post-1142514386023626112006-03-16T07:06:00.000-06:002006-03-16T07:06:26.023-06:00<a href="http://www.siliconbeat.com/entries/2006/03/15/six_apart_confirms_12m_in_venture_capital_may_launch_antispam_legislation_initiative.html">Six Apart confirms $12M in venture capital—may launch anti-spam legislation initiative</a>: "San Francisco blogging software company, Six Apart, has confirmed it has raised $12M in venture capital from Intel, Focus Ventures and existing investor August Capital." —<a href="http://www.siliconbeat.com/">SiliconBeat</a><br /><br /><i>It wasn't so long ago that Six Apart was charging their customers <a href="http://wistechnology.com/article.php?id=833">38 cents</a> for their product. At that rate, they would have needed 31,578,947 customers to raise $12M. I assume their VC round was easier than that.</i>Charliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09533945287965379343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597185.post-1142514140960504532006-03-16T07:02:00.000-06:002006-03-16T07:02:20.966-06:00<a href="http://www.siliconbeat.com/entries/2006/03/15/podtech_raises_55_million_to_create_the_npr_of_podcasting.html">Podtech raises $5.5 million to create the "NPR" of podcasting</a>: "Gee, this we weren't expecting... venture capital flowing to podcast creation." —<a href="http://www.siliconbeat.com/">SiliconBeat</a><br /><br /><i>Does this mean that every other podcast will be four hours of hosts begging for money?</i>Charliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09533945287965379343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597185.post-1142513557746163512006-03-16T06:52:00.000-06:002006-03-16T06:52:37.800-06:00<a href="http://gigaom.com/2006/03/15/money-money-money/#comments">Money Money Money</a>: "Apparently, it is raining cash in Silicon Valley." —<a href="http://gigaom.com">Om Malik</a><br /><br /><i>It does, after all, make the world go 'round.</i>Charliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09533945287965379343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597185.post-1142447294650234342006-03-15T12:28:00.000-06:002006-03-15T13:01:18.573-06:00<a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/enf/rss.asp?guid=%7B9288537D-7B65-42C9-AE31-A5783F2E1193%7D&dist=rss&siteid=mktw">U.S. home builders' index falls to three-year low</a>: "U.S. home builders were less confident about future demand in March, the National Association of Home Builders said Wednesday." —<a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/news/default.asp?dist=rss">MarketWatch</a><br /><br /><i>Do two stories make a trend?</i>Charliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09533945287965379343noreply@blogger.com