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- peHUB Wire: Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Random Ramblings
- peHUB Wire: Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Random Ramblings
- TheFunded's Version of the Midas List
TheFunded, where entrepreneurs are invited to rate venture firms and individual VCs, has just published a list of top-ranked VCs. Smart move, given the vacuum left by Forbes' decision to kill its Midas List. TheFunded's effort is entirely subjective, of course, but that's the whole point. No matter their performance as investors, this is a list of the people most respected by startup CEOs, which can mean just to future performance as a stellar track record. The following is culled from the 17,834 VCs that TheFunded lists, and the 13,287 CEOs or founding members who have taken the time to write up 22,049 ratings and reviews, here are the 50 most popular VCs, in descending order of top ranking:
- peHUB Wire: Monday, January 25, 2010
Monday Mouth-Off
- peHUB Wire: Monday, January 25, 2010
Monday Mouth-Off
- Exit watch, week of Jan. 18, 2010
Notes about M&A transactions involving Filtrbox, Topigen and other VC-backed companies in the past week
- Founder Spotlight: Brightroll's Tod Sacerdoti
Brightroll calls itself the world’s largest branded video advertising network, saying that it has served billions of advertisements since it was founded in 2006. Whether that's the truth or hyperbole, one senses that its 32-year-old cofounder, Tod Sacerdoti, knows his stuff when it comes to the world of Internet marketing. Sacerdoti first "caught the bug" covering Internet marketing for Robertson Stephens, straight out of Yale. As he moved through several business development positions, including at venture-backed startups Spoke Software and Plaxo, Sacerdoti maintained Internet marketing side projects, including assembling a portfolio of 1,000 domain names. “I was small time, but I was always involved in lead gen stuff." Then, inspiration struck. Plaxo was helping YouTube create a distribution widget, so people could share videos with their friends (and YouTube could suck up their address books). Sacerdoti, who was involved in the process, says the deal gave him access to data that wasn’t public for a year -- data that pointed to a massive consumption of video online. Six months later, Brightroll was born. Sacerdoti and I talked yesterday about Brightroll’s fast-growing business, along with some of the shadier tricks of the video advertising trade. It's an interview that anyone wanting to better understand the world of online video advertising should read.
- peHUB Wire: Friday, January 8, 2010
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