The Deal
Sunday, November 22, 
4:54 am

Entries tagged "Bijan Sabet"

Obama FCC pick Genachowski 'one of us,' says USV's Fred Wilson

Venture capitalists and other technology investors are applauding Julius Genachowski (pictured) as President-elect Barack Obama's pick to be chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. Genachowski, who has known Obama since...


Video: Boxee's Avner Ronen on raising VC, competition, new features

After raising $4 million from Union Square Ventures and Spark Capital earlier this month, media-center software developer Boxee is releasing new content and features on Thursday. The biggest change is that users can play, browse...


Video: Iminlikewithyou's Charles Forman on selling virtual goods

Casual game site Iminlikewithyou will soon start selling virtual goods, founder and CEO Charles Forman (pictured) tells Tech Confidential in our Behind the Money video interview.Games on the mulitplayer site, such...


Union Square, Spark Capital back media center software maker Boxee

Frequent co-investors Union Square Ventures and Spark Capital are teaming up again to invest a reported $4 million in Boxee, a startup that makes the "Firefox of media center software," as Wilson describes it...


Twitter's Biz Stone says startup is working to fix "horrible user experience"

Twitter Inc. plans to offer more tools for people developing programs that run on top of the microblogging service, as well as more options for people trying to use those...


Iminlikewithyou is indeed "the next David Karp"

It's official: Charles Forman, founder of Iminlikewithyou, emailed us Thursday evening with a link to Spark Capital Bijan Sabet's blog post announcing funding for the gaming startup."I'm thrilled to announce...


Betaworks under the microscope

Betaworks might be the most influential early-stage investment firm no one's ever heard of. If it's take on Web 2.0 is right, that's sure to change. Tech Confidential takes...


Spark Capital's Sabet highlights power of product placement

Spark Capital general partner Bijan Sabet (pictured) blogged yesterday about the early-stage venture firm's investment in Eqal, the new production company behind the "Lonelygirl15" video series. "Even before we started...


Tumblr Inc. 21-year-old founder David Karp following in Steve Jobs' footsteps

  Like many a Web 2.0 entrepreneur, David Karp hopes his product will be used by millions of people one day. But unlike other ambitious founders, the 21-year-old founder of micro-blogging tool maker Tumblr...


Martin Varsavsky latest to invest in Tumblr

"I invested in www.tumblr.com!" enthused Martin Varsavsky Sunday morning in a Twitter post announcing his modest $25,000 bet on the multimedia blog tool maker. In a longer post on...


At 21, Tumblr's David Karp takes the long view

David Karp, the 21-year-old founder of blog tool maker Tumblr Inc., which recently got $750,000 in seed funding from Union Square Ventures and other Silicon Alley investors, stopped by Tech...



Top tags

You have executed a tag search on Dealscape. On the left,you will find a comprehensive list of stories tagged "Bijan Sabet." Below are the most-popular tags for Dealscape. On the right of the page you will find a search box to dig deeper into our content.
The Deal Pipeline

Deal Video


Inside The Deal: Avaya Inc.'s Mohamad Ali on the company's next target.


More video...

Crisis On Wall Street
Technology
Deals of The Decade

Community

Industry Insight

Managing your shareholder base

Growth companies and their PE sponsors should be wary of the pitfalls that arise when they layer on tiers of preferred stock.


Industry Insight

Easing the stress of distressed M&A

Corporate buyers face numerous complexities when trying to identify the right moment to purchase a distressed asset.


Editor's Note

Editor's letter: Nov. 16, 2009

Beneath the veneer of Wall Streeters beats the same heart, stirred by the same determinants of behavior.



©Copyright 2008, The Deal, LLC. All rights reserved. Please send all technical questions, comments or concerns to the Webmaster.