gigaom.com - 12/31/2008
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Back in October, when I broke the news that uber venture fund Sequoia Capital had organized a secret meeting in which it warned its portfolio companies to prepare for the pending financial apocalypse, the revelation was met with some skepticism.
Some thought Sequoia was using the downturn to ...
gigaom.com - 1/4/2009
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gigaom.com —
A new year brings new opportunities and new
beginnings. For nearly a year we have focused exclusively...
on blogging (though on occasion we have interspersed it with video), we gave not really explored podcasts. Thanks to our gentle persuasion, ...
(more)
A GigaOM Podcast: the First of Many? [GigaOM]
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First Bytes: Dell, Holiday Sales, Piracy, and Layoffs
Tech Observer —
... expected to shake up management at the top of his company. [WSJ] Online holiday sales fell 3 percent this year, the first time online retailers have seen negative growth in eight years. [Cnet] High-end retail sites were hit up tp 12 percent. [SAI] China locks up 11 for counterfeiting Microsoft products. [NYT] Gigaom has tracked the layoffs at companies backed by Sequoia Capital, the VC firm that told its portfolio to pare back. [GigaOm] Related Links The End of Web 2.0? First Bytes: ...
2009: The Year in Venture Capital
WatchMojo.com Business & Technology —
... , we look at the world of Venture Capital (VC). Just when VCs thought they were seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, it turns out there’s an oncoming train that is getting louder, closer and set to derail VCs for good. ...
Roundup: Dell underperformance, Tesla’s tough times, FCC blues and more
VentureBeat —
... Sequoia scores big — GigaOm has put together a scorecard showing the layoffs at all the portfolio companies of Sequoia Capital, whose infamous internal memo demanding belt-tightening we ...
Imeem’s Recap Round Doesn’t Include Sequoia [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... to downsize to some 50 employees from nearly 100, renegotiating royalty rates with record labels and arranging new funding to keep from going under. And it’s the latest digital music company to be valued at a small fraction of what it used to be worth: It was ...
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