Posts Tagged with ‘angel-investor’

MySpace Is Branching Out Into Web StartUp Field

Leslie Poston

MySpace is about to gain back some of its cutting edge status by launching a separate venture that will act as a nurturing incubator for web start ups. Still in development under the guiding hands of MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe, the start up will offer a place for new web ventures to get their sea legs.
This new venture will be a spin off from MySpace. Reports say the name tentatively chosen is SlingShot Labs. DeWolfe said that [...]

Startup School 2007

Paul Glazowski

We’re hearing about the dawning of another dot-com explosion on a daily basis. The new bubble, as it’s being called, is full of Web 2.0 startups that are routinely receiving millions in investment cash, and 2007’s slated to be an extra good year for the tech sector as a whole, some even say too good. But whether that’s the case or not is for the investors and investees to sort out. Why?
Because though history does tend to repeat itself [...]