Editor’s Notes and Thoughts On Washington’s Startup Community’s Continued Evolution and Growth
As a Washington area startup founder if they are thinking about making a move to the bay area and they will probably tell you that they are or have in recent months. This is natural. This is not, however, the point that we need to be focused in on as a community in in 2011. [...]
$334+ Million In Recent Washington Area Startup Deals
The Washington area startup deal flow is really hot right. More than $334 million in funding deals and exits have happened recently, and that is just the stuff we have heard about. This should serve as motivation for all of the startup founders out there.
Optoro Raises $1.85 Million Series A – more.
SnagFlims Raises $10 Million [...]
Interview with Mike Brown Jr. of AOL Ventures
Ryan Roberts, a Dallas, TX area attorney who publishes the The Startup Lawyer, occasionally contributes to Social Matchbox. He recently had a chance to chat with Mike Brown, Jr., Founder and Partner at AOL Ventures. Here is the interview:
I had the chance to chat with Mike Brown Jr., Founder and Partner at AOL [...]
Social Matchbox Roundup
Editor’s Notes:
Over the last few weeks I have run into several people have asked me if there is a blog that covers the Washington area startup community. I was a bit surprised that they did not think of *this* blog as covering it. I guess they are expecting daily coverage or interviews or someone with the [...]
AOL Placing A Big Bet On Email, Acquires unblab.com from Social Matchbox Alum
Chapel Hill, NC based unblab.com founder Eli Holder has just announce that the company was acquired by AOL’s Palo Alto, CA based Project Phoenix group. unblab is the second Social Matchbox Startup Launch Series alumni to be acquired in recent months.
You may recall that unblab’s focus was on applying artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques [...]
Fast Company Says You Should Start Up In DC, Sort-of…
Fast Company’s Laura Rich authored a short post on why you should start up in Washington, DC, sort-of. I say sort-of because if you click her name in the story’s by-line you see that she also did this for all the other tech hot spots. I hate to be critical, but there were more mentions [...]
Are AOL and Yahoo! About To Merge?
One of the hottest topics of the day is whether or not AOL and Yahoo! are really in merger talks or not. This follows a number of issues (more) for Yahoo! and mass exodus from both companies (AOL, Yahoo! (more)).
