Startups – Estately Blog

October 16, 2012

This Lame Reality TV Show Aims To Destroy Silicon Valley

Having trawled through the dregs of humanity to fish out the Kardashians, Honey Boo Boo and Donald Trump, reality television has chosen Silicon Valley as its next source of the human train wrecks you can’t look away from. Inspired by the success of The Social Network, Bravo recently announced Start-Ups: Silicon Valley—a new reality TV show featuring six young entrepreneurs...

News/Startups

August 2, 2010

Big Money Does Not Build Great Online Products

Or, Why Dave McClure is Right: indeed: most VCs are Dinosaurs, and the World Wide Web is an Asteroid that hit the planet in a slow-motion cataclysmic explosion 15 years ago. It may take another 5 years for the ash clouds & nuclear winter of Browsers, Search Engines, Social Networks, & Mobile Devices to kill all the T-Rexes, but it’s...

Startups

October 27, 2007

Free falling costs and website funding

The trend towards small, efficient startups like Menuism, 37Signals, and the Robot Co-op and a host of other small, unfunded or minimally funded startups is forcing venture capitalists to scrounge for non-traditional investments (halfway down the page). ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS The blog VentureBeat has been following the venture capitalists scrounging for alternatives to technology investments as free-falling costs have drastically cut...

Funding/Startups

Category: Startups

This Lame Reality TV Show Aims To Destroy Silicon Valley

Big Money Does Not Build Great Online Products

Free falling costs and website funding