(Image courtesy carterse @ flickr) There’s been a lot of navel gazing lately about whether or not we’re in a bubble. Based on valuations and hype, we might be, but there are a few areas where this bubble is seriously lacking. What’s different this time? Well, at least here in SoCal, we’re missing: 1. Free [...]
1. Your grandmother tells you she’s going to buy Groupon’s IPO, because it sounds like a great deal, and she loves their daily deals. 2. When you run into entrepreneurs who tell you they’re into startup so they can “party like Mark Zuckerberg” 3. Your cousin, who majored in philosophy, tells you they just got [...]
Having lived through the last Dot Com bubble (socalTECH was started right before the dot com bubble),and with all the speculation about bubbles lately, I thought I’d throw a few observations out there about bubbles, given my prior experience. And, instead of calling whether or not we’re in a bubble, I thought I’d instead give [...]
There’s a great post on Mashable by Steven Hodson today on how the attitude users seem to have nowadays that all services must be free is hurting web businesses. One of the most basic tenets of Web 2.0 has been this idea that everything can and should be free for everyone on the Web to [...]
“Don’t be a lemming,” says venture capitalist Maurice Gunderson of CMEA Ventures, saying at the GreenTech 2008 conference Friday that there is a bubble in the energy industry right now. Gunderson, who was keynote at the green energy conference, said that we are currently in an energy bubble, much like the energy bubble of the [...]
CNET reports that Los Angeles-based video sharing site Revver has put itself on sale for between $300K and $500K — a fire sale considering the millions that have been invested in the company. Revver has raised capital from Bessemer Venture Partners, Comcast Interactive Capital, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Draper Richards, and Turner New Media. Revver is [...]
There’s been a lot of banter recently here, at conferences, blogs, and in my personal conversations with people about the effect of an overall slowdown (if there is one) on Internet advertising. The problem is, there are several, very different, and powerful forces bearing down on the Internet advertising market, which make it hard to [...]
For those of you who know Jason Calacanis (formerly of Weblogs) you know he’s always great for controversy or at very least a good quote (the last time I saw him, at the Forbes MEET conference, the folks at Forbes were threatening to “tase him” for the questions he was asking of the panelists). He [...]
There is a great chart (embedded below) buried in a report from SVB Analytics, looking at companies that were funded from 1992 through 2007, and whether they were acquired, went out of business, or had an IPO. (via thealarmclock)
Thoughts and commentary from Benjamin F. Kuo, publisher of socalTECH.com.
