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It's niiice!

Pay Per Post, the sleazy blog payola network backed by DFJ, continues to try to sell its human side via its web-based reality show RockStartup. This time with the even more human than human outtake reel. It's quaint to see people tripping, or flubbing a line, or ordering too much swag with that VC green. On the other hand, most businesses wouldn't be proud to show their Chief of Sales telling a woman that she "could make a lot of money stripping" or Ted Murphy, the company's founder and CEO, recycling Borat's ubiquitous "It's niiice" when asked about a woman taking off her jacket at their conference. More »

4:37 PM on Wed May 9 2007
By Tim Faulkner
706 views, 3 comments

Latest by Jay (living in First Life): Man or ape? more »

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Steve Jurvetson's fallback career

Steve Jurvetson, managing director of VC firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson and early investor in Hotmail, has a rich life. In addition to rocketry, mountain biking, astronomy, and storm-drain spelunking, Jurvetson also finds time to snap the odd photo or two. One of his pictures even made it into Maxim this month. With DFJ's investment in Tagworld on the rocks, and no big hits in Jurvetson's portfolio since the 1999 IPOs of Kana and Interwoven, maybe Steve is glad to know he can fall back on freelance photography if the whole VC thing doesn't work out.

3:24 PM on Fri Jan 26 2007
By dtweney
131 views, 1 comment

Latest by eknirb: really poor taste photo of the bird and the dead mouse. terrible. you should know better. more »

telstar logistics

Telstar Logistics: The most fundable company in the Valley

Telstar Logistics has spread its brand since the 80s to every loading dock, abandoned warehouse campus, and military base it could reach. It's also fake, but when did that stop anyone? More »

6:07 PM on Wed May 3 2006
By ndouglas
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to-do

To-Do this weekend: DevHouse and Startup School

This is the weekend you make your first billion. More »
flipmeat

Flipmeat roundup: Odeo, Friendster, organic humans

logo-20-thumb.jpg Yahoo may buy Odeo. Seems destined, no? [TWiT via Unofficial Yahoo Weblog]
Google may buy Friendster. Main difference between Friendster and Orkut? At least Orkut has Brazilians. [SiliconBeat]
The NYT already bought news aggregator/annotator BlogRunner. So now writing the Times will cost you too. [PaidContent]
Man and machine may merge. Give it 40 years. [KurzweilAI.net]
Draper Fisher Jurvetson is funding Tagworld, another pretty-faced Myspace wannabe. [TechCrunch] More »

7:12 AM on Tue Feb 7 2006
By ndouglas
91 views, 1 comment