http://www.startable.com Healy Jones & Prasad Thammineni on venture capital and startups Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:21:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Congratulations to Mike, Bruce, Sandro and Bill of DataXu for raising a Series B investment from Menlo Ventures, a well known Silicon Valley venture capital firm. Atlas Venture and Flybridge, the Series A investors, invested in this round as well. I got to know the DataXu team when I was ... http://www.startable.com/2010/03/08/another-west-coast-vc-invests-in-a-boston-company/ Mass High Tech is reporting that my company, OfficeDrop, has some extra office space available in our new facility in Cambridge. They are right!! While we hope to grow into this space eventually we'd like to offer desks, chairs, fast internet connections, diet coke and coffee to other startup(s) in ... http://www.startable.com/2010/03/04/month-to-month-shared-office-space-available-in-cambridge/ Inc has a solid piece on terms to be careful of when raising venture capital. I spent some time on the phone with Darren Dahl, the journalist who wrote the piece, and he did a very good job getting his arms around some of the most important issues I've seen ... http://www.startable.com/2010/03/02/venture-capital-term-sheet-tips/ Betaworks is another newer seed fund with a different model, as mentioned in PEHub. The group focuses on "new media" opportunities. They are really innovating with the structure of their fund - they are actually not a fund. Instead, they have organized as a company. It sounds like they want ... http://www.startable.com/2010/02/28/yet-another-cool-new-seed-funding-group-betaworks/ MobileCrunch pointed me to a new seed fund, Right Side Capital Management. The interesting thing about this fund, as reported by MobileCrunch and as mentioned on the fund's site, is that they want to make 100+ investments a year - with minimal due diligence. I've mentioned before that I think ... http://www.startable.com/2010/02/26/new-seed-fund-rightside-capital-with-a-new-model/ I'm happy to announce (a bit belatedly) that Pixily is now called OfficeDrop. Changing the company's name was a pretty big deal, but it has gone smoothly. There is much more to it that just finding a domain that we could purchase and redirecting URLs. The biggest thing for us ... http://www.startable.com/2010/02/24/my-company-has-changed-its-name-to-officedrop/ Congrats to William and the great guys at AccelGolf for formally announcing their seed funding. Will did a great job leveraging his experience at TechStars into some solid angel funding, which should really help him grow the business. This is another TechStars Boston company doing really well! I hope the ... http://www.startable.com/2010/02/18/congrats-to-accelgolf-for-announcing-seed-funding/ Dharmesh Shah (a longtime lurker on my blog - but he did comment once!) made a seed investment in Backupify, a provider of backup services back in June. Backupify has just received a larger angel investment of $900k from First Round Capital & General Catalyst (as well as some other ... http://www.startable.com/2010/02/16/seed-investment-in-backupify-by-local-angel-investor/ I may be a bit crazy, but I more think that Google Buzz is trying to fight Wave and Tweetdeck. Am I nuts? Most of the play for Buzz seems to be forcing things through your gmail inbox. I like the idea of pre-populating your friend list. Of course this makes ... http://www.startable.com/2010/02/11/google-buzz-vs/ ComScore is reporting that ecommerce actually shrank in 2009 due to a major decline in travel spending (via Online Media Daily). Online retail spending decreased 2% year-over-year to $209.6 billion. Weighing down the broader numbers, travel e-commerce spending dropped 5% in 2009 to $79.8 billion, while retail -- non-travel -- e-commerce ... http://www.startable.com/2010/02/10/comscore-stats-on-ecommerce-in-2009/