Tag Archives: Seth Godin

Digital Publisher Company Vook Raises $5.25 Million

Posted on January 26, 2011 by Amit Chowdhry


Vook is a digital publisher company that has raised $5.25 million in Series A funding from VantagePoint Venture Partners and Floodgate. Vook publishes iPad, iPhone, Android book apps, and multimedia Kindle books. Vook has partnerships with Deepak Chopra, Seth Godin, and Tom Peters. Vook was founded in 2008 by Bradley Inman. Vook has raised $2.5 million in seed funding from Ron Conway, Baseline Ventures, Founder Collective, Maples Investments, and Lerer Ventures.

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Internet Entrepreneur and Marketing Guru Seth Godin No Longer Publishing Traditional Books

Posted on August 23, 2010 by Amit Chowdhry


Seth Godin is an Internet entrepreneur whose name is synonymous with marketing. After graduating in computer science from Tufts and earning an MBA from Stanford, Godin worked at a company called Spinnaker Software. When working at Spinnaker, he met Mark Hurst and founded a company called Yoyodyne, an online marketing company. Yahoo! acquired Yoyodyne for $30 million in 1998.
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