The Latest from Erick Schonfeld
SocialFlow Opens The Floodgates
Brands love marketing across social media, but it is a little like TV advertising in that it is hard to measure how effective it is. Sure, you can count retweets, likes, and Klout scores, but how does
Pedestrian Map App, Lumatic, Raises $800K From Joi Ito And 500 Startups
All the major map apps like Google Maps, Bing Maps, and Mapquest have walking directions as a standard feature, but the folks at <a href="http://lumatic.com/">Lumatic</a> don't think they are good eno
How Facebook Really Stacks Up Against Pre-IPO Google
Now that Facebook is preparing the biggest tech IPO in history, it is possible to compare its financials and potential market value to Google's when it went public. At first glance, all of <a href="ht
Sh#t VCs Say: “Have You Ever Tried Kiteboarding?”
Following in the tradition of "<a href="https://beta.techcrunch.com/2012/01/25/finally-someone-makes-shit-silicon-valley-says/">Shit Silicon Valley Says</a>" and other Shit ______ Says memes, August C
Yammer Time: In 2011 “Pretty Much Everything Tripled”
<a href="https://www.yammer.com">Yammer</a> grew like crazy last year. How crazy? Product VP Jim Patterson just tweeted out the Yammer 2011 Year in Review infographic below with the comment: "Pretty
You Know What’s Cool? $1 Billion In Profits
We learned a <a href="https://beta.techcrunch.com/2012/02/01/zuckerlog/">lot of things</a> about Facebook today from its <a href="https://beta.techcrunch.com/2012/02/01/facebook-files-for-5-billion-ip
Facebook’s Profits: $1 Billion, On $3.7 Billion In Revenues
Facebook just <a href="https://beta.techcrunch.com/2012/02/01/facebook-files-for-5-billion-ipo/">filed</a> its IPO registration (<a href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000119312512034
The Birth Of An American Giant—Basic Clothing Sold On The Web
Nothing is made in this country anymore. In terms of actual manufacturing, America is increasingly at a disadvantage. The logic of the global economy moves jobs overseas. Get used to it, we are told.
Ben Horowitz: “It Took About 3 Weeks” To Raise Our $1.5 Billion Fund
<a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/financial-organization/andreessen-horowitz">Andreessen Horowitz</a> is definitely killing it these days. The unconventional VC firm founded by Marc Andreessen and Be
Jason Kilar: Hulu’s 2011 Revenues Of $420 Million Was Actually Above The “Board Plan”
Last year, Hulu brought in <a href="https://beta.techcrunch.com/2012/01/12/hulus-2011-revenue-grew-60-percent-to-420m-will-invest-500m-in-new-content-this-year/">$420 million in revenues</a>, with was
CardSpring Raises $10 Million To Connect Payments To The Web
We measure every last click when it comes to the Web, but there remains a gulf between online and the real world. Yet the online world increasingly drives behavior offline, especially when it comes to
TrialPay Raises $40 Million From Visa, Greylock, T.Rowe Price
Offers are a booming form of advertising in which consumers are presented with offers to try or buy products. It is particularly popular in social games where players <a href="https://beta.techcrunch.
Twitter’s Dick Costolo: “We’re Growing Faster Than We Have Ever Grown Before”
Does Twitter need Google or does Google need Twitter? It's a question complicated by recent events, such as the two companies not coming to an agreement to extend their previous partnership through wh
Pre-IPO Filing, Facebook Trading Privately At $84 Billion Valuation
As everyone waits for Facebook to <a href="https://beta.techcrunch.com/2012/01/27/wsj-facebook-filing-for-ipo-as-early-as-wednesday/">file for its IPO </a> this week, one of the big questions is what
LivingSocial CEO: Lumping Us With Groupon Is Like Lumping eBay With Amazon
The local commerce industry as represented by daily deal sites like Groupon and LivingSocial is still barely learning to walk, even though Groupon has <a href="https://beta.techcrunch.com/2012/01/23/d
For Those Who Can’t Let Go Of The Past: The Techmeme Re-Underliner
Remember the old <a href="http://www.techmeme.com/">Techmeme</a> of a week ago, before the <a href="https://beta.techcrunch.com/2012/01/26/the-new-techmeme-design-plus-your-world-minus-underlined-link
Apple’s Off-The-Charts iPhone And iPad Sales
Sometimes you have to see things to truly appreciate their magnitude. Apple's latest <a href="https://beta.techcrunch.com/2012/01/24/apples-q1-2012-46-3b-in-revenue-37m-iphones-and-15-4m-ipads-sold/">
LivingSocial Now At 5,000 Employees, Half The Size Of Groupon
A few days ago, at the DLD conference, Groupon CEO Andrew Mason revealed that his three-year-old daily deal company now has <a href="https://beta.techcrunch.com/2012/01/23/dld-2012-andrew-mason-groupo
What Apple Should Do With Its $100 Billion In Cash: Buy Hollywood
"Kill Hollywood," is the latest battle cry from Silicon Valley. If you are <a href="http://ycombinator.com/rfs9.html">Paul Graham,</a> that's not a bad way to motivate young would-be founders to creat
Jeff Clavier’s SoftTech VC Raises $55 Million For Fund III
The micro-VCs are growing up. Case in point: <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/jeff-clavier">Jeff Clavier</a>, who started out as an angel investor backing Web 2.0 companies and then transitio