12 Jul, 2008
Posted by: Keith Teare In: M&A| Strategy| TechCrunch| Technology| Web 2.0
Update 2:Rafat has a comment to this post pointing out that by just looking at paidcontent.org I am doing the valuation of ContentNext a disservice. Of course he is quite right. ContentNext has other sites and also events. It is also true to say - although Rafat doesn’t - that valuation has many variables, including [...]
25 Jun, 2007
Posted by: Keith Teare In: Keith Teare,| Mike Arrington| TechCrunch
Fred Vogelstein from Wired has written a really good profile of TechCrunch and Michael Arrington. It manages to capture the Mike that I know and love.
The profile starts out with the story of 3 Dutch entrepreneurs descending on Mikes house at 10am one Tuesday morning, wearing white suits and carrying a latte and a croissant.
They [...]
16 Apr, 2007
Posted by: Keith Teare In: Mike Arrington| TechCrunch| Web 2.0
It seems like a long time ago that Jason Calcannis and Mike Arrington announced their intention to host a conference for startups in the fall. It was at the DEMO conference at the start of the year. Well ….. TechCrunch20 is now real and today the web site went live with more details of the [...]
31 Mar, 2007
Posted by: Keith Teare In: Mike Arrington| TechCrunch| Web 2.0| announcement
Another deal I have had to keep under wraps….. Techcrunch and F***edCompany are set to release news of a merger tonight at around 9pm Pacific Time. Mike has blogged it early due to rumors circulating on the web. Techmeme has it here.
17 Mar, 2007
Posted by: Keith Teare In: Mike Arrington| TechCrunch| Web 2.0| announcement
Om Malik has the scoop but this is something I have been keeping under my hat for several weeks. Heather Harde, former Fox Interactive Media executive, responsible for Mergers and Acquisitions, is to be the new CEO of TechCrunch.
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UPDATE
Mike has now confirmed the news here.
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Heather was a key figure in Fox’s strategy to acquire the [...]
