Piecing It Together

Late Friday afternoon in Seattle, we had a glass or two of wine in the office - and the next thing I remember is waking up at 4am in Nevada - on Monday. I'm still trying to piece it all together with the help of a cryptic set of polaroids :)

VC Strategy: Get The Inside Track On A Recap

Because it's Friday afternoon, I was thinking about Jobster's $7M recap news from last month - of course, existing investors participated. Then I free associated Andy's Kefta post series (which is awesome). It might work out pretty well for a seed investor to bring in a large subsequent round from a strategic and then pump more cash into a recap if you were able to cram it down enough. Even if the prior money wasn't spent in the most efficient way possible, there's certainly going to be some amount of value that was created to buy at a strong discount.

Conspiracy? BFeld, MLund, Bluehat Cold & Dark

Lately, three of my favorite bloggers have been cold & dark: Brad Feld, Morten Lund, and Eli from Bluehatseo - I want to believe that they are all heads down conspiring on some super secret deal together.

In reality, Feldologists (you know, like Kremlinologists) know there are two options: it's either off-the-grid week, or there will be imminent, interesting news. Morten Lund news is the sale of Zyb to Vodaphone today - although no doubt there are all kinds of crazy ideas/deals/news in the pipeline. Bluehatseo tends to humorously manipulate the readership for several reasons, like selling interesting webmaster tools.

Brightqube: Stunning UI + $650K

A little fundraising news from Brightqube yesterday - the video - in addition to having awesome intro music shows how cool the brightqube UI is - coincidentally, I got a demo of the Brightqube UI a couple of days ago and found it very compelling. Right now they are an affiliate pass through for photo agencies that own actual photo inventory, but look for Brightqube to use this as a stepping stone to building their own, proprietary stock photo inventory over time.

L0ratad1ne Cheap Internet Pharma!

Internet adding real consumer value:

Today/this evening I have been getting a cold or allergies or something. Right about 11pm tonight I decided that I should take some m3ds to clear me up so I would sleep better. I found an unboxed packet of something called Loratadine which I had never heard of - without the Internet, I might hesitate before popping unknown pills, but Wikipedia told me it was the generic name for Claritin - Boom, problem solved.

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And you'll get to send the CEO instant messages like this one:

"wu-tang are pretty cool, foo fighters are a bit lame - although dave grohl was in nirvana and nirvana ruled"

Tempting??


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