
Color
Wow that’s hot. Social networking, mobile, photo sharing. $41M raised before launch. Testing conventions, with damn good timing. But will this color fade to grey? Mobile social software application Color launched today. With more pre-launch funding by Sequoia et. al. than Flickr was bought for it is something to watch. Smart and accomplished team, which […]

Does the Internet Mean There Can Only Be One?
I read with interest today Hubspot’s coverage of their new monster VC round. They’ve raised a $32M Series D monster round from Sequoia, Google, and Salesforce–certainly an all-start cast. There’s a lot of interesting data in these announcements, such as Hubspot’s view of what market shares look like for the Marketing Automation category: If true, […]

Hearsay Social – Social Marketing Automation for Social Businesses
I had the chance to catch up with author and entrepreneur Clara Shih last week about her new project, Hearsay Social. Clara, the author of the well know and best-selling book “The Facebook Era” and ex-Google and salesforce.com executive, had been working in stealth mode on a new project to help companies manage social marketing […]