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more about #startups more comments → Shadowlayer: Thats the difference between real founders (like this guy) and oportunist big talkers like, well, almost everybody else in the valley these days... S... more » Jason McCabe Calacanis: Am I really the benchmark for exits now? Ugh... I better have another hit soon. :-) Seriously big ups to fellow Sequoia Capital company AdMob on thi... more » Magister: From the video; Some of these are probably bigger than we are right now, but we're bigger than we were 12 months ago Well now, you're even larger th... more » raincoaster: If they want to churn the Suggested Users List, which they should, they should just automatically include everyone the elite who are already on the li... more » skymotel: The sequence of events behind the Twitter-Bing deal isn't working in an expected order. Twitter users are already (re)tweeting news about Twitter sign... more » Shadowlayer: Suddently the internet doesnt look so edgy and smart, does it? more » misslinda: I am spending the rest of the weekend teaching my cat how to type. Wish me luck. more » BxgrlJeri: I know I am a FAIL because I don't get how blogs make money. Ad networks and Google AdSense? I don't even know what that means. more » sparkyl: Are they looking to hire a couple of twins? more » Rozelle’s Bagman: 11.5 bazillion (fixed) more » MrInBetween: Facebook employees are not satisfied that their site wastes millions of man-hours a year on nonsense. So they are now proactively and surreptitiously ... more » iplaudius: The reporter didn’t know how else to get the photo after two hours of searching on Lycos, AltaVista, and AskJeeves. more » loveliesbleeding: I thought the title said 'crone army' and I got scared. more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: is this one or several: gay, style guy, teen, prom obsessed more » good_times: How is she going to have time to keep up with her website??? I thought she was enrolling in Harvard Business School to get her MBA. more » -
#fieldguide
The Insanely Rich Young Mobile Ad Broker You've Never Heard Of
No one knows what Facebook and Twitter are really worth, sexy though the startups may be. But AdMob, an obscure company in Silicon Valley's hinterlands, has a very clear, solid value: $750 million in stock from acquirer Google. Yay boring! More » -
#startups
The Retreat of King Twitter
With great power comes great responsibility, and with great responsibility comes great headaches. So after years as the hottest, most talked about startup in Silicon Valley, Twitter is ready to relinquish some control of the national conversation. More » -
#successstories
U Can Haz Cheezburgur, World Dominashun, LOLZ at Other Starupz KTHXBYE
The I Can Haz Cheezburger guy, Ben Huh, got an AdAge profile. They've got 21 full-time employees, 30 blogs, and 11.5M visitors a month. They were profitable in their first quarter "almost entirely via ad networks and Google AdSense." [AdAge] -
#publicitystunts
Facebook's Wacky Prank on Journalism
The social network can and will fuck with you, as TechCrunch found out, after Facebook targeted an elaborate hoax at just its reporters. More » -
#moguls
Julia Allison's Clone Army
Julia Allison wants to be a Web mogul. Foreman of a fameball factory. Oprah to a dozen young Dr. Phils. In short, she'd like to replicate herself. Ominously, for such grand ambitions, she's recruiting on Cragslist. More » -
#geeklove
'In Lieu of Gifts, Please Give Us Free Venture Capital'
Drue Kataoka and Svetlozar Kazanjiev have come up with a novel way to hit up their wedding guests for cash: explain the cash will be used to generate even larger sums of cash, via the internet. More » -
#fashion
The Terrible Ingenuity of 'Winker' Jeans (An Introduction)
There's something admirable about this disturbingly awesome invention for the heartland, these Winkers™ pants: the fatter you get, the better they work. All of America, from coast to chubby coast, will soon need this clever thing, no? More » -
#acquisitions
How a 'Made' Startup Was Clipped
Two years ago, music service iLike appeared to be set: Its CEO said it was "made," its investor mused it could be a "billion-dollar winner," and the press was enthralled. Now the poster child is a cautionary tale. More » -
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#twitter
Ashton Kutcher, Exploited Twitter Spokesmodel
Has any celebrity tied himself so closely to a technology product as Ashton Kutcher with Twitter? It's doubtful, and yet Kutcher hasn't received a dime for his defacto endorsement. That's not lost on the actor. More » -
#communism
Meet San Francisco's 'Naked' Hippie Internet Startup
In Silicon Valley, the line between cult and company can be thin. Leave it to Steve Newcomb to toe that boundary, with a San Francisco "idea factory" that sounds as much like a religious order as a startup. More » -
#startups
Barry Diller Just Bought This Kid a TV Studio
At the ripe old age of 28, Ricky Van Veen is finally putting CollegeHumor.com behind him. He's leaving the site he co-founded and starting a production company called Notional. But the young man remains in Barry Diller's well-padded nest. More » -
#businessmodels
New Twitter Ad System Tested by New York Times Reporter
How will Twitter ramp its revenue from nothing to $21 million a month in less than two years, as its managers forecast? Maybe by simply monitoring what you tweet about, and then targeting ads at you. More » -
#startups
Sun Valley's Lusty Old Men Are Fickle
Allen & Company is doing its annual thing in Sun Valley, Idaho, in which old moguls shamelessly ogle the most supple young internet startups. This year, everyone's drooling over Twitter. Last year's trophy companies? Not looking so sexy. More » -
#startups
Twitter, Facebook Just Actively Ignoring Business Opportunities Now
Who can afford to be blasé about making money in this economy? A hot Web 2.0 startup, it turns out. More » -
#cubicleculture
Inside the Startup Office from Hell
Frank Addante, the Los Angeles tech entrepreneur, has helpfully consolidated pretty much every terrible office idea and Web 2.0 startup cliché into one place: This video tour of his online ad company, Rubicon Project. More » -
#conflictsofinterest
Silicon Alley's Bitter Awards Scramble
For a startup founder itching to cash out, the recession can be tough: The economy fades hopes for an acquisition or plum funding round. Perhaps this explains some of the testiness around this year's awards from Silicon Alley Insider. More » -
#apocalypse
The World According to Twitter
How distorted is Twitter's view of the world? That question is neatly answered by Topsy, a new search engine that's like Google, except sorted by the attention-deficit-disorder sufferers who live on Twitter. More » -
#startups
Clinging to Dying Web 2.0 Dreams
Being a startup is way more fun than being a business. Which is why we see Twitter and Facebook in seeming economic denial this morning. Who wants to confront financial reality, like Google? More » -
#deathofprint
The New York Times Battles a Googler for New Jersey
Why is the Gray Lady building websites for the obscure suburbs of South Orange, Maplewood, and Milburn? Perhaps because those are the exact same towns Google executive Tim Armstrong picked for Patch, his local-news startup. More »
