A Slow Year for Startup Exits
Performance Marketing
Despite some high-profile tech IPOs, 2011 was a slow year for startups and startup investors looking for an exit, according to a new report from Dow Jones VentureSource.
Incubator Y Combinator Grows Its Startup Army
Performance Marketing
Before a long list of new startups took the stage on Tuesday at Y Combinator headquarters, partner Paul Graham (who's seen as the startup incubator's driving force and public face) [...]
TechCrunch’s Potential Conflict of Interest Problems
Performance Marketing
It looks like TechCrunch could soon have to deal with big conflict of interest issues thanks to its editor's recent investments.
Storify Helps Journalists Filter News
Performance Marketing
As social media users flood the Internet with posts, photos, and videos of breaking news events, it’s getting increasingly hard to siphon out the vital information from the trivial.
Agencies Get Into the V.C. Business, But Why?
Brand Marketing
Venture capital has again become a pretty cool gig—cooler, in fact, than advertising. Which may explain why in recent months, an influx of agencies has wandered into the risky business [...]
Launch Mode: CloudTalk Finds Its Voice
Performance Marketing
Most tech entrepreneurs are motivated by fame, power, and (not least) dreams of enormous wealth. With CloudTalk, serial entrepreneur David Hayden has a much grander ambition—to save humanity.