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John Furrier on Venture Capital: Freestyle Capital Closes Early Stage $27 million dollar venture fund

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Freestyle Capital Exploding on The Scene Closes dollarsignr27m Fund, More Exits Coming Two respected tech entrepreneurs Josh Felser and Dave Samuel officially announced their early-stage VC firm Freestyle Capital. Although Dan Primack of Fortune Term Sheet blog reported that Freestyle’s fund been public for sometime, it appears the Freestyle team wanted to announce exclusively at [...]

John Furrier on Venture Capital: Menlo Ventures $20 million dollar fund

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Menlo Ventures Launches dollarsignr20 Million Early Stage/Talent Fund Shervin Pershevar announced on stage at the AOL TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 conference that he and Menlo Ventures has started a dollarsignr20 million fund. The fund will be called the Menlo Talent Fund. Shervin and his team at Menlo Ventures will invest dollarsignr200,000 in early stage startups. According [...]

Google Q4 Earnings

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Post on Google Earning Q4 from SiliconAngle Here is the post. Google reported revenues of dollarsignr6.67 billion for the quarter ended December 31, 2009, up 17% vs the fourth quarter of 2008. Earnings for the quarter came in at dollarsignr1.97 billion, up from dollarsignr348 million for the same quarter of 2008. Earnings per share were [...]

Cloud Collision – Why Google CEO Quits Apple Board – SiliconANGLE Opinion

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What happens when a warm front and cold front collide? Usually, extremely violent weather, which could include, torrential rain, lightning and thunder, hail, and tornadoes. Steve Jobs is back at the helm. In addition to getting down and dirty on the product stuff we are now seeing him take care of some looming issues around [...]

Commenting Here on Furrier.org

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I have taken some time off from blogging here to work on the SiliconANGLE project.  siliconANGLE has been a big success in only three months.  Next week I’ll be announcing new news on SiliconANGLE. I will use this blog to post my personal observations and random notes about my family, friends, and work.  SiliconANGLE will [...]

Update: 3 Editors and 24 Contributors on siliconANGLE.com – Open Source Approach to Profit Sharing

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I’m really happy with the recent activity around what was launched as a side project of mine - siliconANGLE.com.  As of today we have 3 editors: me, Mark Rizzn Hopkins, and Rex Dixon.  Even more exciting is that we have 24 contributors signed up to blog with us. With the growth of siliconANGLE going strong, [...]

Google Grandcentral Launching

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Google launching GrandCentral tomorrow.  SiliconAngle is my new group blog one edited by myself  and community of contributors. Apparently this story might be under embargo or so I am hearing – well what can I say I am not under embargo.  I have never broken an embargo ever.  So if this was under embargo then [...]

siliconANGLE Demographics – Early Adopters and Twitterers

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The new open project called siliconANGLE.com is a few days old and their is an interesting stat.  As expected mostly tech insiders are reading the blog early on – the firefox stats speaks to that.  I’m sure the mainstream sites are the opposite with IE at the top.  Interesting to see Chrome on there at [...]

Thanks Kara Swisher for Covering The ANGLE — siliconANGLE.com

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Thanks Kara for noticing the new blog yesterday and writing a post. We all at siliconANGLE look forward to diving deeper into the stories that you report. siliconANGLE.com a new blog that is a collaboration between me and my friends.  A new model in blogging and developing stories and analysis. SiliconANGLE.com

My New Blog – SiliconANGLE.com – The siliconANGLE Project

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Introducing my new group blog  siliconANGLE.com.  Here is a post that explains why I’m moving my Furrier.org blog to SiliconAngle.com. I’ve been thinking for sometime now about starting a new blog that is different than the current blogs out there today – one that adds something new, different, and interesting to the conversation. I’m launching [...]

Launching a New Group Blog Tonight

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I’m launching a new group blog tonight. Look for info here and on twitter..

Teaser: Future of Blogging Economics – Blogging is Changing and For The Better

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This is a teaser post. I am waiting to talk about this further, but to tease out the future of blogging economics I wanted to point out a great post worth reading. Blogging and social media is changing and is very relevant. Advertisers just don’t know how to engage with it. Example quote from a [...]

Crowdsourcing Promo for Valentines Day From SearchMe.com – Good But Why Would Anybody Want to See Britney Spears Anymore?

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My friends Randy Adams and Nicole Adams over as Searchme.com are running a”Share the Love” contest where the first prize is an all expense paid trip for two to see Britney Spears in LA if you create the ”most romantic” playlist from their music search. Although it escapes me why anyone would ever want to [...]

Will This Be Mike Arrington’s Last Post? – Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg Video Interview

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Enjoy this interview Sheryl Sandberg the Facebook COO at Davos. Mike Arrington grabbed her for a 9 min interview. One thing that I would ask Sheryl is how they are handling the policy for kids. As Linda Furrier posted last week, she has an opinion on Facebook for Kids. Full transcript: Michael Arrington: I am [...]

My Favorite Super Bowl Ad 2009

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This is my fav from the Super Bowl 2009