Entries tagged "accel partners"

Reid Hoffman back in the saddle at LinkedIn

Reid Hoffman is reprising his role as CEO of LinkedIn Corp., the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday evening.  Current LinkedIn CEO Dan Nye, who took over the chief spot from...

Video: Sometrics measures ad effectiveness on the social Web, says founder Ian Swanson

New tools from a wide range of companies including incubator Betaworks (with its new product, Chartbeat),  Lotame, Kissmetrics, Kontagent and Sometrics Inc. are delivering the ability to analyze Web 2.0...

Kalin: Stepping down as Etsy CEO was my choice

"This was completely a personal decision on my part," Etsy Inc. founder Rob Kalin says about his handing over the CEO reins to Maria Thomas, who joined the startup in...

Etsy Inc. founder Rob Kalin steps down as CEO

"The word transition is so loaded that I hate to use it. But it is what it is," blogs Union Square Ventures partner Fred Wilson in his post about the...

Etsy's Rob Kalin: There's no such thing as 'VC money'

Etsy Inc. founder Rob Kalin responded over e-mail to my questions about how he went from turning down venture capitalists a few years ago to accepting $27 million from Accel Partners, Union...

How did Etsy founder Rob Kalin learn to stop worrying and love the VCs?

As regular readers of Tech Confidential know, we're intrigued by Rob Kalin, the 27-year-old founder of handmade goods e-marketplace Etsy Inc. He was one of five New York tech entrepreneurs...

Tech and wine moguls champion emerging neurotech industry

"The best hope for curing mental illness is neurotechnology," says Staglin Family Vineyard owner Garen Staglin, who with wife Shari stopped by our office recently to discuss their efforts to raise funds for mental...

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