The $1 billion lawsuit that Viacom filed against YouTube last year has the potential to redefine electronic copyright law, if the slowly-moving case ever yields a ruling, rather than a settlement.As it crawls its way through the court, we caught up with YouTube’s top lawyer, Zahavah Levine, when...
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Crushpad, the profitable San Francisco startup that lets consumers make and sell their own wines at urban wineries, has been named winner of the
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The VC liquidity drought drives venture capitalists to consider direct secondary marketsThere are few to no exits for venture-backed deals and limited partners are having a tough time making capital calls. All this is good news for direct secondary market players, like Saints Capital and Ken Saw...
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Angel investor Aydin Senkut is our guest host analyzing Thread, the dating site leveraging FacebookThe online dating market is a $1 billion annual business. One company - Thread - is trying to go after that market by leveraging the connections on Facebook by creating a dating filter on top of th...
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Smule co-founder and CEO Jeff Smith says, 'Put zero distance between the code and the customer’In this segment of Lessons Learned for entrepreneurs, Bambi Francisco interviewed Jeff Smith, co-founder of Smule, a maker of popular iPhone apps, such as the Ocarina, which recently eclipsed one milli...
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Your one-stop-shop for everything schoolStudents turn to many different places to get through the school year. Some buy their textbooks at the local (and overpriced) stores while others wait three weeks into classes for their Amazon shipment to arrive.Some log onto their professor’s Web site to c...
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VC Noah Doyle’s advice: Create a culture, remember the KISS principle and keep costs downIn this segment, Bambi Francisco interviewed Noah Doyle, managing partner at Javelin Venture Partners. Doyle has had a lot of experience on the operations side as well as the investing side. Prior to Javelin...
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Internet celeb, VC talks about his blog directory, the 'flywheel’When you have 21,000 followers on Twitter, you've got a marketing engine that's pretty unique. It's no wonder Guy Kawasaki leverages Twitter to feed his new company Alltop, a news aggregator of 250-and-growing topics, from venture ...
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Xoopit helps Gmail inbox become more social and visualWhen X-1 Technologies came out many years ago, I stopped keeping a contact list. When I wanted to find a phone number, I just searched for someone’s name. Desktop search was the first step toward making sense of my inbox, and maintaining emai...
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Gadget ads and DVR data will also push privacy limits; Apple’s boost to CNet If you start to doubt how much passion Google engineers have for their ad products — or how targeted Web ads can be -- check out this video interview with Adam Sah.Sah, architect for the company's gadget content d...
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These days, social networks seem to be the place where people can track a person’s whereabouts, their latest accomplishments, or what they’re working on, to who they last engaged with. To that end, applying social network features inside a company may be a more effective and transparent way for ...
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Angel investor Aydin Senkut on where he’d invest and sectors he'd avoidAydin Senkut, an early-Google employee-turned angel investor, is becoming known as one of the more prolific seed-to-early-stage investors in Silicon Valley, having invested in 40 companies since 2006. His portfolio consists o...
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