Foursquare is opening an office in San Francisco. On the one hand, this is great news, because it means the NY-based startup is expanding fast.
On the other hand, it’s kind of a downer, because as Foursquare made explicit in a blog post, New York’s tech scene just couldn’t provide the talent they Read More
“The big location question used to be San Jose or San Francisco, the valley or the city,” writes Paul Daversa, CEO of Daversa Partners, which helps VCs and startups find executive talent.
But things have changed recently. “For the first time in my 20 years of search, the deal flow and investment lines Read More
Gilt Groupe has made its first acquisition, the San Francisco-based luxury deal site Bergine, as part of a rapid expansion plan that has put the NYC-based site in five new American hubs.
Bergine was founded in March by Patricia Calfee. Gilt is looking for local expertise and connections, so Calfee will help run Gilt’s West Read More
Ad.Ly CEO Arnie Gullov-Singh was in town from the West Coast this week, pitching his brand of micro-celebrity endorsements to Madison Avenue ad firms and staffing up a sales team that will be based out of Silicon Alley.
“Someone should start a business renting umbrellas to L.A. folks,” he said, shaking the rain Read More
Fred Wilson dug through the new numbers from CB Insights on venture capital investments in tech this morning. Tech Observer noted this morning that New York was beating Boston in terms of new startups.
Wilson agrees, although he makes a subtler point. He highlights this data point, first noted by Read More
West coast blogging platform Posterous started a scrap back in June when it launched a series of tools to help users move their content from “dying platforms” over to Posterous. Included on this list of moribund sites was New York based Tumblr, which has a lot in common with Posterous.
Both sites are Read More
