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furrier.org - 12/16/2008
Cram Down - Now Playing In Silicon Valley - Featuring BitTorrent
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Mike Arrington has a great post on the recent Extraordinary event happening in Silicon Valley. The latest is Bittorrent. It has been common knowledge that Bittorent has been hurting or better yet imploding. I would hate to see Bittorent go under because they have pioneered p2p. Here is some ...
techcrunch.com - 12/15/2008
Bad Times For BitTorrent: $17 M Financing Undone, Valuation Plummets
— techcrunch.com — File sharing service BitTorrent has undone its $17 million financing from earlier this year, we’ve learned from... an investor in the company, and that money (or what’s left of it) has been returned to investors DCM , Accel Partners and DAG ... (more) Bad Times For BitTorrent: $17 M Financing Undone, ...

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Virgin Media to dump neutrality and target BitTorrent users • The Register
theregister.co.uk - 12/16/2008
Virgin Media to dump neutrality and target BitTorrent users • The Register
— theregister.co.uk — Exclusive The UK's second largest ISP, Virgin Media, will next year introduce network monitoring technology to specifically... target and restrict BitTorrent traffic, its boss has told The Register . The move will represent a major policy shift for the ... (more) Virgin Media to dump neutrality and target BitTorrent ...

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techcrunch.com - 12/16/2008
The Extraordinary Happenings At BitTorrent
— techcrunch.com — “I have never seen anything like this” said a corporate law partner at a large silicon valley... law firm. he was referring to the undoing of a $17 million venture round at BitTorrent and subsequent recapitalization that we reported ... (more) The Extraordinary Happenings At BitTorrent

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WatchMojo.com Business & Technology:  How VCs Are Rendering Themselves Toxic

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How VCs Are Rendering Themselves Toxic
WatchMojo.com Business & Technology — Say what you want about Bittorrent’s troubles, but the VCs here are basically ensuring that what few quality startups remain out there look the other way when VCs come knocking: John Furrier, who’s got the scars from his venture-backed startup days chimes in, here. Not being able to convince any of the 10 or so VCs I met to invest (and not accepting the terms from the couple of VCs who wanted invest) has proven to be a Godsend: had I raised money, we’d probably have less revenue to date, but far more costs.  I’d be ...

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