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Jay Gould

If You Build Farms, They Will Come? Second Life Is Restructuring To Become More Social

June 9, 2010

Share Linden Lab, the company that owns and operates Second Life, has announced today that they’re laying off 30 percent of their staff, labeling the move as “restructuring” and “reconfiguring”. Their new strategy is to make Second Life more of a browser based experience, like Farmville, eliminating the requirement for users to download software. Second [...]

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Fred Wilson Supports Secondary Market For Private Company Stock Liquidity

May 7, 2010

Share Today Fred Wilson wrote about the nearly 1,000 point “Crash of 2:45PM” yesterday, and in his post he described the public markets as a fickle thing.  He went on to say: “I believe the secondary market where institutional private capital comes into the cap tables of startups and provides liquidity to founders, angels, and [...]

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DST Buys ICQ For $187 Million – Did Zuckerberg Miss The Writing On The Wall?

April 29, 2010

Share SocialBeat’s Dean Takahashi reports that Digital Sky Technologies (DST) has agreed to pay AOL $187.5 million for ICQ, the largest instant messaging service in Russia, and a number of other markets.  According to Time Warner, ICQ has over 100 million accounts registered, and more than 32 million unique visitors per month, which was started [...]

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Is Go Daddy Filing A Multi-Billion Dollar IPO?

April 28, 2010

Share The Go Daddy Group has been selling domain names and website hosting services for over ten years, with some very impressive growth metrics.  In 2008, Go Daddy’s 2,000+ employees managed over six million customers and 34 million domain names with $497.9 million in revenue. Go Daddy’s founder and CEO, Bob Parsons, launched the company [...]

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How The Dodd Bill May Impact The Secondary Market

April 27, 2010

Share There has been a lot of debate over a section of the financial reform bill proposed by Senator Chris Dodd, (aka the Dodd Bill), which has a few provisions that could significantly impact angel investing, and ultimately the secondary markets in a very negative way.  Although this has been widely covered, and while it [...]

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“Facebook’s Vision Was To Become Infastructure For Identity On The Internet” – David Kirkpatrick

April 27, 2010

Share Check out David Kirkpatrick, author of “The Facebook Effect“, in a video interview by Kara Swisher of All Things Digital, describing Mark Zuckerberg’s vision from the start of Facebook, “which is to become infrastructure for identity on the Internet.”  He goes on to explain that “Google is the consummately brilliant data centric Internet company [...]

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Zynga Weekly Growth Slows, Treasure Isle Still Golden

April 26, 2010

Share The last week has seen Zynga’s growth slow from last weeks torrid pace.  In total, Zynga MAU growth dropped to an annualized rate of 22% last week, from over 100% the prior week, the slowest growth rate since the week ending March 27th. All of Zynga’s growth came from the remarkable rise of Treasure [...]

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Should Zynga and LinkedIn Limit Their Employees From Selling Their Stock?

April 26, 2010

Share Last week Bloomberg reported that LinkedIn and Zynga may begin placing limits on employee sales of their company shares.  In fact, we’ve heard from investors that new Series A documents will begin implementing similar limitations from the start of their portfolio companies, making it harder for employees to liquidate their stock options that they [...]

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Demand Media Hires Goldman, Bolsters Board – IPO Coming?

April 20, 2010

Share Demand Media has been killing it for four years now. The snapshot from Alexa below show’s ehow.com‘s inexorable rise from Alexa global ranking below 800 to an Alexa ranking of 144 over the last two years. In the U.S., ehow is the 44th most trafficked site according to Alexa.   Demand has driven this remarkable [...]

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Diapers.com Raises $20 Million Debt Round With 2009 Revenue At $182 Million

April 20, 2010

Share If this were 1999, Diapers.com certainly sounds like a company that should eventually be headed to the deadpool, but its 2010 and people are actually buying products online, and Diapers.com is selling a LOT of diapers. In fact, according to Diapers.com CEO Marc Lore, “this year we will sell a half a billion diapers”, [...]

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