Connie Loizos
In an unusually public battle for the venture world, Bob Fabbio — the famed cofounder of Austin’s Tivoli Systems, later sold to IBM Corp. for $745 million, and of Austin-based Dazel Corp. in 1991, which HP picked up for more than $150 million eight years later — is battling with the venture firm TL Ventures […]
In a column at Businessweek yesterday, writer Rob Hof admitted to semi-stalking Google cofounder Sergey Brin as Brin meandered this week from Google’s developer conference in San Francisco to the search giant’s offices, south of San Francisco’s Market Street. Hof went on to make some far-reaching observations based on the incident. Specifically, after noting that Brin had […]
There’s a new venture firm in San Francisco, one that’s actively shopping for early-stage deals now. Called Javelin Venture Partners, the firm is managing $70 million on behalf of one family office, and it’s being spearheaded by entrepreneur and angel investor Noah Doyle, and Jed Katz, a serial entrepreneur who has spent the last four […]
Things haven’t gone exactly as planned for Ross Levinsohn since Velocity Investment Group merged with the venture firm ComVentures in December 2007 to form Velocity Interactive Group. Raising a new fund for the combined team was unexpectedly taking forever, then Jonathan Miller, Levinsohn’s original partner at Velocity, hightailed it a few months ago to become […]
From a new survey of the 25 largest Bay Area companies comes this nugget: Asians represent just about 6 percent of their board members and 10 percent of their corporate officers. It’s not huge news, but given the prominence of Asians in Santa Clara county, it’s a bit of a surprise all the same. Santa Clara has experienced the largest […]
Well, so much for sticktoitiveness. Craig Walker, cofounder of GrandCentral (now Google Voice) has updated his Facebook status again, and this time, instead of kissing off social networking forever, he’s already “back and loving it!” Says Walker, “It only took a day! I could never stay away.” Somehow, I doubt Walker would do well on a diet plan. […]
Jim Clark, the billionaire Netscape cofounder, reportedly coughed up a princely sum to produce an award-winning documentary that you may want to catch when it begins playing nationwide in July. The film, “The Cove,” centers on the ongoing capture and butchering of dolphins in the fishing village of Taiji in central Japan, where pods of dolphins […]
If you haven’t heard already, Facebook just announced a $200 million cash infusion from the Russian investment firm, Digital Sky Technologies, a major stakeholder in some of Russia and Europe’s biggest Internet companies. In return, Digital Sky is getting a 1.96 percent stake, meaning the transaction values Facebook at roughly $10 billion. The two companies say that […]
“I officially quit all social media. Worthless other than to find a random friend from 20 years ago or more. Adios mofos…your tweets and updates will have to wait until we meet face to face…otherwise, I couldn’t give a rat’s ass what’s ‘on your mind.'” — Craig Walker, the cofounder of GrandCentral, the Web-based application […]
Recently, angel investor Ron Conway sat down with Vator.TV’s Bambi Francisco for a wide-ranging interview that touched on whether he uses the services of Facebook and Twitter (he doesn’t, despite having invested in both), why he’ll back a company (chemistry with its entrepreneur), which company he really believed in and that imploded anyway (Napster), and […]