Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. Based in Palo Alto and founded in 2004 by PayPal alumni. Current round: $4. led by Altos Ventures and Maverick Capital, with Larry Braitman. Total raised: $6.0mm. See: TechCrunch. Founded in 2008 in Santa Monica by Ron Goldman (former CRO of shopping.com) and Rahul Sonnad. Competitors: Skype.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2022

We have an outstanding cohort of VCs ready to hear their pitches and follow up with tough Q&As — and we’re thrilled to add three more to the slate. Did you miss the other Startup Battlefield VC judges? In 2004, Samuel co-founded Crackle, an internet video platform acquired by Sony for $65 million in 2006. Did you know?

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OurCrowd

JUNE 20, 2021

Musk, whose 2004 bet on electric cars looked risky at the time and now seems prophetic. Dandelion Energy, which was incubated at GoogleX, is developing affordable geothermal installations for normal homes, harnessing the ground beneath your swing set and barbecue to heat and cool your house for a fraction of the cost of carbon-based systems.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Rather than reinvent the wheel, I would point readers to Martin Kleppmann’s useful blog post with graphs illustrating the effects of a valuation cap on entrepreneurs, seed investors and later-round (typically VC) investors. By the fall of 2004, the site’s explosive growth attracted the attention of many potential investors and buyers.

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