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Silicon Valley ... sorry Village
Recently, on blog post related to connection between Twitter and bit.ly , I promised the more insight on relations between various persons in Silicon Valley. I think that this is just tip of the iceberg and how far my humble knowledge reaches.
Its interesting how 80-20 rule works across human race and especially in Silicon Valley.
If you dig little deeper you find that in almost every major deal we have same players. Where do I start ...
Sequoia Capital was investor in both Youtube and Google before Google acquisition by which Sequoia payed itself investment in Youtube. Blogger.com was acquired by Google in 2003 whose CEO at the time was Evan Williams who sold company for Google options which turned into great amount of cash. Nowadays Evan is one of key co-founders of Twitter. Money got from same VC as for blogger.com (Betaworks) and some angel investors ( Naval Ravikant also a founder of my ex company vast.com). Twitter is fastest growing company on market and in position like it was Youtube before Google acquistion. Google is eager to acquire twitter or at least wants advertising deal on twitter search pages. Evan has experience with Google, deal would be walk through park. But, at this point twitter wants to use momentum it has and hold on the deal.
And not to mention one of major players Fred Wilson whose Silicon Valley connection reach from age of soon closed Geocities to Twitter era from Health care and Education to Boxee and The Unbank. (Continues ...)
Its interesting how 80-20 rule works across human race and especially in Silicon Valley.
If you dig little deeper you find that in almost every major deal we have same players. Where do I start ...
Sequoia Capital was investor in both Youtube and Google before Google acquisition by which Sequoia payed itself investment in Youtube. Blogger.com was acquired by Google in 2003 whose CEO at the time was Evan Williams who sold company for Google options which turned into great amount of cash. Nowadays Evan is one of key co-founders of Twitter. Money got from same VC as for blogger.com (Betaworks) and some angel investors ( Naval Ravikant also a founder of my ex company vast.com). Twitter is fastest growing company on market and in position like it was Youtube before Google acquistion. Google is eager to acquire twitter or at least wants advertising deal on twitter search pages. Evan has experience with Google, deal would be walk through park. But, at this point twitter wants to use momentum it has and hold on the deal.
And not to mention one of major players Fred Wilson whose Silicon Valley connection reach from age of soon closed Geocities to Twitter era from Health care and Education to Boxee and The Unbank. (Continues ...)
bit.ly why? how?
Have you ever thought about bit.ly ? What is their business model? They just shrink urls, right?
Not exactly ...
Its gives you much more. Link live stats , posting to twitter ...
Take a look at this link.
But isn't weird connection between twitter and bit.ly? It is made perfectly for twitter who have limit in max number of characters and they have common investors Betaworks. Well, sort of cause BetaWorks sold Summarize to Twiter for $15m and twitter stock options. Silicon valley is very small place, guess I have to make a post on all relations between VC, startups and contracts between them. Like, usage of bitly small links on Twitter is not by chance, a lot of other API/tech deals in Valley are driven by VCs and their interests.
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Not exactly ...
Its gives you much more. Link live stats , posting to twitter ...
Take a look at this link.
But isn't weird connection between twitter and bit.ly? It is made perfectly for twitter who have limit in max number of characters and they have common investors Betaworks. Well, sort of cause BetaWorks sold Summarize to Twiter for $15m and twitter stock options. Silicon valley is very small place, guess I have to make a post on all relations between VC, startups and contracts between them. Like, usage of bitly small links on Twitter is not by chance, a lot of other API/tech deals in Valley are driven by VCs and their interests.
Call from Past: But How Will Google Ever Make Money?
Just a little reminder what is lame journalism, so don't believe the hype!
But How Will Google Ever Make Money?
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VC is failing - BIG TIME!
VC is failing! It can't be scaled, we can't find decent exits, no IPO in todays circumstances, VC money is slowly moving towards clean-tech... Recently I found math that backs all the facts. You should read this blog entry.
So by that estimate, over the 15 year period, VC firms generated $396 + $140 bn of value = $540 bn, or an average of $36bn per annum, of which about 50% happened in the glory years. This means that IPO and M&A activity in those insane years was seven times higher than the long run average.Continue reading here
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