Friday, July 30, 2010

Cash/Equity Headlines: Millions

From Friday's "Venture" email:
1. In Russia, startups need angels, not bodyguards — and now they may get them
2. Game maker Richard Garriott spent $30M going into space, wins $28M jury award after being fired
3. Entrepreneurs: Unlearn your MBA!
4. Y Combinator’s Paul Graham: Say goodbye to traditional venture rounds

From Friday's "Tech" email:
1. Dave McClure Files For $30 Million Venture Fund: 500 Startups
2. China’s Focus Media Sells Internet Division Allyes To Silver Lake For $124 Million
3. No Facebook IPO Before 2012, Probably
4. Panasonic Buying Out Solar Tech and Rechargeable Battery Makers
5. Google CEO Announces Zynga Partnership

From Friday's "Content" email:
1. Forbes’ True/Slant Prepares To Sign Off [Rewind: May: Forbes Acquires Freelance Journalism Site TrueSlant]
2. Confirmed: Zynga Raises $150 Million From Softbank
3. QuinStreet Follows Up Insure.com Purchase By Buying Insurance.com

From Friday's "Silicon" email:
1. Introducing TurningArt, The Netflix For Artwork
2. JACKPOT FOR ZYNGA: Congress Wants To Legalize Online Gambling
3. Why New York Will Challenge The Valley for Consumer Internet Supremacy

Plus, Xtreme macro economic headlines from Friday's "Money" email:
1. 21 Reasons Why The So-Called Recovery Is A Joke For Most Americans
2. 10 Companies Making A Killing After Laying Off Their Employees
3. Niall Ferguson: Empires Fall Abruptly, And The American Empire Is On The Brink
4. Krugman: Here Are 3 Charts For Anyone Who Thinks The Economy Isn't Terrible
5. Just A Reminder Of How Much Deleveraging Households Still Have To Do
6. Deutsche Bank: If The Bush Tax Cuts Go, Then The Recovery Is Dead In 2011
7. The New Message From The Fed: WE ARE JAPAN
8. Joseph Stiglitz: We're Probably Going To Have To Bail Out The Banks Again

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Copy/Equity Headlines: Millions

From today's "Silicon" headlines:
1. Omniture Founder/CEO Josh James Already Leaving Adobe At The End Of The Month -- ...sold his web analytics company to Adobe last September for $1.8 billion, is leaving the company at the end of the month.
2. Scott Heiferman: I Sold My Company For Millions And Then Worked At McDonald's

From today's "Content" headlines:
1. Eyeblaster’s IPO Gets Smaller
2. BuzzLogic Raises $8.8 Million Second Round; Adds Custom Rich Media Unit
3. Triangulate Gets Cash From Playdom Chairman, Others For Facebook Dating App
4. Crowdgather Acquires Forums Host Lefora
5. Pace Acquiring Home Media Delivery Firm 2wire To Buy In To U.S.

From today's "Venture" email:
1. GameStop dives into casual online games with Kongregate acquisition
2. Tapping Disney, Elemental raises $7.5M as it shoots for mastery of web video processing
3. How to select your company’s lawyer
4. Dating application Wings hooks featured Facebook spot and $750K
5. Energy consultant Nexant brings in $32.5M
6. Solera Networks raises $15M for real-time network security

Monday, July 26, 2010

Cash/Equity Headlines: $16.5 Million

From today's "Venture" email:
1. Zattikka raises $5M to expand in social and mobile games
2. Skype founders place $6 million bet on MadBid.com
3. Convoke Systems raises $5.5 million to help creditors collect debt

From today's "Content" email:
1. Glam Media Buys Ad Tech Startup AdPortal

Saturday, July 24, 2010

Cash/Equity Headlines: $847.1 Million

From today's "Venture" email:
1. EC Roundup: Financial reform and the lost decade for entrepreneurs
2. Glam acquires Sportgenic and AdPlatform, expands premium ad tools

From yesterday's "Venture" email:
1. Is Disney ready to buy social game company Playdom for more than $600M?
2. Energy Dept. spends $106M to put captured CO2 to use
3. Apixio gets $1.5M to provide access to medical information
4. TurnHere reels in $12.6M for online video ads
5. RPI raises $5M for custom photo products

From today's "Tech" email:
1. Wisconsin: Land of Beer, Cheese, and…Startups
2. Big Money: AOL’s Beauty Pageant With Google, Microsoft For New Search Deal
3. LinkedIn Hires Shannon Stubo, Key Exec For IPO Run

From yesterday's "Tech" email:
1. Disney About To Acquire Playdom
2. The Funded’s Adeo Ressi: VCs Are Living On Borrowed Time
3. CalTech Awarded $122 Million to Create Fuel From Sunlight

From this week's "Start-Up" blog posts:
1. Venture’s Mid-Life Crisis
2. From Recap To Sale In Six Weeks
3. Sequoia, Kleiner Team Up Again
4. Friendly To Founders & Limited Partners
5. Old Investors, New Money
6. VCs Opened Their Wallets Wider In 2Q, But It’s All Relative

Meanwhile, in Iowa...

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Cash/Equity Headlines: Millions

From today's "Content" email:
1. Jive Software Raises $30 Million From Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia

From today's "Tech" email:
1. SeatGeek Closes $1 Million Series A Round, Partners With Nielsen
2. Google Spent $1.34 Million On Lobbying In Q2, Up 41 Percent From Last Year
3. Data Management Virtualization Startup Actifio Raises $8 Million
4. Autodesk Buys Illuminate Labs, Maker Of Lighting Technology For Games
5. Mobile Technology Company Movitas Raises $3M, Goes After The Travel Industry
6. Trada Raises $5.75M From Google Ventures To Crowdsource Search Engine Marketing
7. Zattikka Raises $5.5m For Its Social Games
8. Readying For An IPO, Jive Software Raises $30 Million From Kleiner Perkins And Sequoia
9. Google Energy’s First Purchase: 20 Years of Wind Power

From today's "Venture" email:
1. ThisNext raises more cash to focus on women’s shopping
2. Startups: Welcome to the lost decade
3. Google Ventures backs Trada’s crowdsourced approach to search marketing
4. Venture titans Kleiner and Sequoia team up behind Jive

From today's "Money" email:
1. Will The "Cult Of The Equity" Investor Die?
2. Banks Can't Hold Back Highend Mortgage [over $300,000] Foreclosures For Long
3. Want To Know Why Banks Aren't Lending? Just Look At Romania

Plus, from today's "War" email:
1. 10 Super Successful Co-Founders, And Why Their Partnerships Worked
2. 4 Presentation Lessons From Steve Jobs' iPhone 4 Press Conference
3. The 6 Personality Traits Every Small-Business Owner Should Have
4. How To Quit Your Job At 26 And Start A Web Company With No Money And No Tech Experience
5. 8 Steps You Should Take To Become Your Own Boss
6. The Best Bars For Networking In New York: Tech & New Media Edition
7. 10 Business Commandments For Entrepreneurs

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Cash/Equity Copy Headlines: $531.5 Million

From today's "Tech" headlines:
1. Kodiak Capital Pumps $10 Million Into Online Adult Entertainment Company
2. Khosla Ventures And Founders Fund Invest $15M In Health Appointment Platform ZocDoc
3. Squarespace Raises $38.5 Million From Accel, Index Ventures
4. Naspers Buys 28.7% Of Facebook, Zynga Investor And ICQ Owner DST
5. Online Gaming Startup We R Interactive Debuts With Star Backers And Founders

From today's "Silicon" headlines:
1. Man Claims He Owns 84% Of Facebook

From today's "Venture" headlines:
1. Curt Schilling online game firm 38 Studios considers $75M loan incentive from Rhode Island
2. ZocDoc raises $15M to schedule doctor’s appointments nationally
3. Squarespace lands $38.5M to expand its web publishing platform
4. Maverick Russian internet company DST scores $388M in cash from strategic investor
5. Centrillion Biosciences brings in $2M to analyze DNA
6. Robotic knee developer Tibion raises $3M
7. How much should you look for in your seed round?

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Cash/Equity Copy Catch: $48.8 Million

From today's "Tech" Headlines:
1. Gaming-Focused Social Network hi5 Raises $14 Million
2. InMobi Gets $8 Million From Kleiner Perkins And Sherpalo Ventures

From today's "Venture" Headlines:
1. Hi5 raises $14M as it shifts into social games and virtual goods
2. Kleiner, Sherpalo add $8M to mobile ad network InMobi
3. Wellcore secures $2M for fall detection system
4. Moxsie gets $3.7M for members only shopping site
5. WebFilings brings in $5.1M to streamline SEC filing process
6. MobileIron raises $16 million to manage employee smartphones

Monday, July 12, 2010

Xtreme Copy Catch: 11 Money Headlines

Monday, July 12, 2010:
1. Richard Koo's Awesome Presentation That Explains Why Austerity In The US Is Insane
2. Here's A Country [Australia] Where Everyone Is Hiring, And CEOs Are Terrified Of A Worker Shortage
3. How All 'Consumer' Spending Since Lehman Was Actually Government Money By Another Name
4. Stephen Roach [MS's Chair]: Here's Why There's A 40% Chance Of A Double Dip
5. Morgan Stanley: Don't Worry, This Correction Is Like 1998 Not 2008
6. Doug Kass: Ride This Summer Rally And Then Hit The Beach
7. Check Out The Huge Number Of People Who Are Being Cut Off From Unemployment Benefits
8. Why It's Clear Investors Have No Idea What's Safe Anymore
9. Morgan Stanley: Central Banks Have Begun Ditching The Dollar Again...
10. Household Misery Index Shows We're Leveling Off Near An All Time High
11. This World Cup Is Going To Do Little For The South African Economy

Plus, from today's Silicon Headlines:
1. Google Starts $5 Million Fund For YouTube Creators, Softens Stance On Content Creation

Plus, from today's Tech Headlines:
1. Update: Playdom Paid At Least $850,000 For Hive7
2. Performance-based Online Advertising Company Adsmarket Raises $17 Million

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Xtreme Copy Catch: Money Headlines

Wednesday, July 7, 2010 (via e-mail):
1. Here's Why The Great Recovery Is A Big Fat D.U.D.D.
2. Rosenberg: Here Are 15 Signs The Economy Is Rolling Over
3. The 23 Countries Most Likely To Default
4. Do The Krugmanites Have ANY Serious Ideas For Fixing The Economy?
5. 12 Charts That Show The Broken State Of The US Labor Market
6. Illinois Construction Workers Make $50-68 Hour, Strike For 15% More
7. 18 Charts That Tell You Everything You Need To Know About The World's Sovereign Debt
8. Here's The Real Reason Unemployment Is So High: Because The Government Makes It Impossible For Small Businesses To Hire Employees
9. Niall Ferguson: The US Has 6 Years Before Debt Payments Surpass Defense Spending
10. The World's Top Currency Analyst Says Euro Will Fall To Dollar Parity In 2011
11. The Japanese Dream Is Over As Ex-Pat Population Marks First Fall Since 1961
12. Niall Ferguson: Nothing Would Scare Bond Markets More Than The Government Following Paul Krugman's Advice

Plus, via e-mail, this morning's Silicon Headlines:
1. HTC Sales Soar 58% Thanks To Google Android
2. Apple's iPad Isn't Cannibalizing Mac Sales Yet
3. Yahoo Guns For Facebook's Growing Games Revenues, Signs Offerpal Deal
4. Here's How BuzzFeed Plans To Turn Viral Content Into Cash
5. The Winners And Losers From The Rise Of Manufacturing Costs In China

Finally, via e-mail, this morning's "War Room" Headlines:
1. 10 Stupid Ways Entrepreneurs Waste Money
2. 5 Ways To Pay Your Employees When Your Startup Is Just Getting Started

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Xtreme Copy Catch: Money Headlines

Tuesday, July 6, 2010:
1. Morgan Stanley: We've Seen This Exact Same Kind Of Market Before, Back In 1998
2. Goldman: Our Clients Are Now 'Uniformly Bearish' And Scared Of Deflation
3. Are European Banks Simply Being Allowed To Stress-Test Themselves?
4. Illinois Has Stopped Paying Bills Even For Essential Services
5. Roubini: Europe's Economy Will Stop Growing As Soon As This Year
6. How China's New Generation Of Workers Won't Accept Slave Labor
7. How To Fix A Sovereign Debt Crisis Without Killing Consumer Spending
8. Politicians' Latest Austerity Fad Will Cause The Most Severe Contraction Of Economic Support In Decades
9. $100 Oil Is Coming Sooner Than You Think
10. Think Treasury Yields Are Too Low? Get Ready For Bond Bulls To Laugh Even Harder At Us

Plus, via today's Silicon Headlines:
1. It’s Not That Seed Investors Are Smarter -- It's That Entrepreneurs Are
2. Raising Money During The Summer Slowdown
3. Why Google Paid $700 Million For ITA: 10% Of Its Search Business Is Travel
4. Twitter's Newest Revenue Plan: Daily Deals

Plus, via today's "War Room" Headlines:
1. The Top 8 Reasons Why Your Business Can't Get Funding
2. 5 Tips For Raising Funds In A Really Crappy Economy