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Home Decor Flash Sales Site HomeSav.com Raises $1.2 Million

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

TechCrunch - By Robin Wauters - Sep. 27 (Opinion) - Luxury home decor flash sale site HomeSav.com this morning announced that it has raised $1.2 million in seed financing from multiple retail angel investors and entrepreneurs including the Koffler family and the Metrick family (founders and owners of Canada's largest high-end home furniture retailer). In addition, HomeSav.com says it has grown its membership by over 1,400 percent in the first year to over 100,000 registered users in the United States and Canada. Its members are said to place over 100 orders per day.

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Do You Have What it Takes to Be an Entrepreneur?

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Mashable - By Nellie Akalp - Aug. 31 (Opinion) - There’s no shortage of articles that examine the qualities of a successful entrepreneur. But after working with countless entrepreneurs and business owners over the years, I have a slightly different take. Succeeding as an entrepreneur is more than just great ideas and execution. You’ll also need to develop the personality traits that will anchor you and keep you sane amid a hectic lifestyle. After all, your happiness is a top priority, right?

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The checkered past of Groupon's chairman

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Fortune - By Kevin Kelleher - Jun. 10 (News) - Groupon's IPO has brought an uncomfortable spotlight onto Lefkofsky. While some attention focuses on his ambitions as an investor in tech startups, others see a "spotty history" and draw parallels between the past and the present. Lefkofsky's track record, reflecting failures and successes, bears certain hallmarks: rapid revenue growth accompanied by big losses, a penchant to sell stock early on, and lawsuits filed by investors, lenders or customers who feel they have been wronged.

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Khosla Ventures Is Raising, Like, A Billion Dollars

Thu, 19 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

TechCrunch - By Robin Wauters - May. 19 (Opinion) - Venture capital firm Khosla Ventures is raising $1 billion for its new fund, Khosla Ventures IV, an SEC filing reveals. From the looks of it, the new fund will be roughly the same size as the previous one (raised in September 2009).

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Intellectual property and the economy: Patently absurd

Sun, 08 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Economist - May. 08 (Opinion) - Innovation and jobs have become a modern version of motherhood and apple pie in Washington, DC. Everyone in America’s capital wants lots more of both, or so they say. So how come Congress and the White House have decided not merely to underfund a crucial cog in American’s innovation machine but actually to take away revenue it earns?

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NSFW: Colo(u)r Me Done – I’m Going To Vegas, For Starters

Sun, 27 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

TechCrunch - By Paul Carr - Mar. 27 (Opinion) - For the past few days, my fellow tech writers have been working themselves into a bubbling froth about the Valley’s latest app du jour: Color. Some have been shocked — shocked! – at the level of investment that Bill Nguyen’s team has received for – what? a social-mobile-photo-sharing trifle – $41m!; Others have rushed to the company’s defense, accusing critics of playa hating and other such ungentlemanly conduct. So on which side do my sympathies lie?

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Digital Textbook Startup Inkling Nabs ‘Multi-Million Dollar’ Investment From McGraw-Hill And Pearson

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

TechCrunch - By Leena Rao - Mar. 22 (Opinion) - Inkling, a startup that develops an innovative digital textbook platform, has scored a ‘multi-million dollar investment from educational content giants McGraw-Hill and Pearson. Inkling’s technology delivers interactive textbooks that include the ability to collaborate, add multimedia and communicate within content. The startup adds another layer to online textbooks by adding 3-D objects, video, quizzes, and even social interaction within the content.

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Larry Page Wants to Return Google to Its Startup Roots

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Steven Levy - Mar. 18 (News Report) - After a 10-year run in which Google's revenues skyrocketed to almost $30 billion, Larry Page is CEO again, and he wants to run Google the old-fashioned way: like a startup.

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