Article from AboveTheCrowd. This morning, Intuit announcedits agreement to acquire one of Benchmark’s portfolio companies, Demandforce, for $424mm. As with Instagram, Benchmark Capital is the largest institutional investor in Demandforce. Unlike Instagram, which is a consumer application and is extremely well known, Demandforce focuses on local professional businesses and has chosen to keep an intentionally [...]
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SolarCity plans IPO
Posted in Investments, Intellectual capital, Board Of Intellectual Capital, Business models, Economy, IPO news, cleantech, tagged boic, Gerbsman Partners, Merrill Lynch, Solyndra, Tesla Motors, BrightSource Energy, bank of America, First solar inc., SolarCity, U.S. Bankcorp, Clean Edge Inc., BrightSource, SunPower Corp., SunRun Inc. on May 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Article from SFGate. Two weeks ago, solar power plant company BrightSource Energy abruptly canceled plans for an initial public stock offering, convinced that investors currently have little appetite for new solar shares. Now SolarCity Corp. will test that theory. SolarCity on Monday reported plans for its own IPO. The San Mateo company, best known for [...]
This Startup Just Raised $25 Million To Beat LinkedIn
Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Business models, Economy, Entrepreneurship, FaceBook, Investments, LinkedIn, Market research, tagged boic, BranchOut, FaceBook, Gerbsman Partners, HTML5, LinkedIn, Mayfield on April 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Article from SFGate. BranchOut wants to beat LinkedIn at its own game: helping people use their social network to find a job. Today, the company got a lot more backing to help it out. It announced a $25 million Series C round from Mayfield and other investors, bringing its total funding to $49 million in [...]
MONEY TIPS
Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, boic, Economy, Entrepreneurship, Gerbsman Partners, internet, Investments, Market research, Marketing, tagged boic, Economy, Gerbsman Partners, investros, tobucko, yobucko on April 16, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Article from Yobucko. www.yobucko.com Yo! How’s it going? We hope 2012 is going well for you. We just wanted to send you a quick reminder that taxes are due next Tuesday, April 17th. If you haven’t finished them yet, don’t worry. But you may want to do your taxes online and e-file so you [...]
