Tag Archives: Jason Calacanis
Jason Calacanis Is Back To Blogging Again On PandoDaily
After Jason Calacanis quit blogging to create an e-mail newsletter instead, I thought he would not be back. After all he is busy running Mahalo, managing the LAUNCH conference, and podcasting on This Week In Startups. However Calacanis has proven to be an effective multi-tasker once again by joining PandoDaily is a regular columnist. Calacanis is best known for selling his company Weblogs Inc. to AOL for $30 million. Weblogs Inc. was the parent company of websites like TUAW, Joystiq, Download Squad, and Engadget.
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Categories Jason Calacanis, PandoDaily
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TechCrunch: We Are Not For Sale
TechCrunch editors Eric Eldon and Alexia Tsotsis said “we’re not being sold.” Instead TechCrunch has hired a bunch of “brilliant writers and a new COO.” Over 1,000 people attended their TechCrunch NYC meet-up last night as well. Traffic has been up with regards to unique visits year over year. They did hear about sales rumors as well with interest supposedly from Jason Calacanis.
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Categories Alexia Tsotsis, America Online, AOL, Eric Eldon, Jason Calacanis, TechCrunch, Tim Armstrong
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Nimble Receives $1 Million From Mark Cuban, Jason Calacanis, Don Dodge, Dharmesh Shah, Google Ventures, Etc.
Nimble is a customer relationship management startup company that has raised $1 million in funding from Mark Cuban, Dharmesh Shah, Jason Calacanis, Don Dodge, Google Ventures, etc. Nimble CEO Jon Ferrara believes that Nimble is a combination of Hootsuite, Yammer, and Salesforce.com.
Categories Dharmesh Shah, Don Dodge, Google Ventures, Jason Calacanis, Jon Ferrara, Mark Cuban, Nimble
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PixelFish Acquires Local Business Guide Company Backyard
Backyard launched this past December and was backed with $150,000 in seed funding from 500 Startups, Jason Calacanis, and Eric Schmidt’s Tomorrow Ventures. PixelFish, a local video marketing solutions company, has acquired Backyard. Backyard is a local business guide that is available on the web and on mobile devices. PixelFish has no plans of shutting down Backyard as a result of the acquisition.
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Jason Calacanis Drops Lawsuit Against Michael Arrington [Blogger Fight]
Mahalo founder Jason Calacanis filed a lawsuit against TechCrunch in November 2010. Calacanis and Arrington are former partners on the TechCrunch50 events. Calacanis also wanted some proceeds from TechCrunch’s sale to AOL. One business day after Calacanis’ Launch Conference, he dropped the lawsuit against Arrington. [TechCrunch]
Categories Jason Calacanis, Mahalo, Michael Arrington, TechCrunch
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Mahalo Transforming Into An Online Education Hub
Mahalo.com is completely transforming their website from a search engine into an educational hub. Based in Santa Monica, California Mahalo.com will have educational and instruction videos.
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Jason Calacanis Fosters A Healthy Work Environment At Mahalo.com
I read an interesting article on the American Express Open Forum this past week about how Jason Calacanis fosters a healthy work environment at his start-up company Mahalo.com. Calacanis hired a professional chef to prepare healthy snacks for every employee every day. These snacks are even brought to every employee’s desk at regular times throughout the day.
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Jason Calacanis Files Lawsuit Against Michael Arrington Over TechCrunch50 Conference
[Jason Calacanis, left - Michael Arrington, right]
Jason Calacanis, the founder of Mahalo.com and co-founder of Weblogs, Inc. has filed a lawsuit against his former TechCrunch50 conference partner Michael Arrington. Arrington recently sold his blog TechCrunch to AOL for an estimated $25-$40 million and Aol gained ownership of the conference as part of the deal. Before the acquisition Arrington kicked out Calacanis from TechCrunch50 and rebranded it as TechCrunch Disrupt. Below is a post that Arrington wrote and a post that Calacanis wrote about the situation so you can get both perspectives.
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Categories Jason Calacanis, Michael Arrington, TechCrunch50
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Propeller.com Shuts Down
Propeller.com is a social media link-sharing website that is similar to Digg.com and Reddit.com. Somebody submits a story and if it gains enough popularity, that story hits the homepage. Propeller.com was created out of an experiment by AOL subsidiary Netscape.
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Categories America Online, AOL, Digg, Jason Calacanis, Kevin Rose, Netscape, Propeller, Propeller.com
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Rapportive Raises $1 Million From Several Angel Investors
Rapportive is a startup that created a plugin for making GMail work better. It provides contextual information about your GMail contacts. As a result, Rapportive has raised $1 million in seed funding from several angel investors.
Categories 500Startups, BOLDstart Ventures, Charles River Ventures, Dave McClure, David Cancel, Gary Vaynerchuk, Jason Calacanis, Kima Ventures, Martin Kleppmann, Naval Ravikant, Nivi Ravikant, Paul Buchheit, Rahul Vohra, Rapportive, Roy Rodenstein, Sam Stokes, Shervin Pishevar, VentureHackers, Y Combinator, Zelkova Ventures
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