Ever-busy Zuckerberg marries sweetheart the day after Facebook IPO VentureBeat As if Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wasn t busy enough readying his company to go public this past week, he also somehow found time to marry long-time sweetheart Priscilla Chan yesterday. Social...
Never Give Up, Never Surrender Feld Thoughts Today s post is a guest post from my friend Nicholas Napp. We first met five years ago and while I ve never invested in anything he s done, I ve tried to be helpful along the way. Nick is currently running a company called MoveableCode and has a...
Would Facebook’s IPO have been bigger if it went with New York Stock Exchange? VentureBeat The all-computer run NASDAQ could be to blame for a lack of a Facebook stock pop Friday, when the social network started its first day of trading. Orders flooded in for the stock, but overwhelmed...
Google’s acquisition of Motorola gets the go-ahead from Chinese government VentureBeat Chinese antitrust and competition authorities have approved Google s deal to purchase Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion dollars, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday. The merger, which was...
Pets.com and Midwestern moms: Another look at what happened to Facebook VentureBeat Hoo boy, anything tech-related that happened over this past week was dwarfed into oblivion by Facebook s IPO . Many of us were expecting a glorious event with massive profits for early shareholders, but the day s events ended in disappointment ....
Silicon Valley needs humanities students VentureBeat Quit your technology job. Get a Ph.D in the humanities. That’s the way to get ahead in the technology sector. That, at least, is what philosopher Damon Horowitz told a crowd of attendees at the...
No liftoff for SpaceX: Launch aborted early Saturday VentureBeat The launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket came to an abrupt halt early Saturday. The rocket s computer detected too-high levels of pressure in engine number five, causing the launch to stop a...
How were these Silicon Valley VCs so wrong about Facebook’s IPO? VentureBeat Before Friday, almost every Silicon Valley insider was saying Facebook stock would finish its first day between $50 and $60 per share. In reality, the share price at the closing bell was a pathetic...
2-D books are over: Augmented reality breathes new life into the classics VentureBeat Augmented reality, which bridges the divide between virtual and physical worlds, has crossed into a new frontier: print media. Penguin Books recently unveiled a surprising partnership with Zappar App...
The Darwinian Evolution of Startup Hubs A VC : Venture Capital and Technology This weekend finds NYC in between Internet Week (which I largely missed because of my London trip) and Disrupt NYC (which I will be at on and off this coming week). So the development of NYC as a startup hub is very much on my mind. And so I...