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Disney Shutters Parenting Blog Site, Babble

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Burbank-based Disney has shut down parent blog site Babble , according to the site, which did not say why it was shutting down. The site had originally been founded in 2006 by Rufus Griscom and Alisa Volkman, covering topics around parenting and raising children. Disney had owned Babble since 2011. READ MORE>>.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. My blog was wiped out.

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Anthony Batt Heads To Ashton Kutcher's Katalyst

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Batt co-founded BUZZmedia, originally known as Buzznet, out of his efforts photo blogging, scoring his first funding round back around 2006. Katalyst was founded in 2000 by Goldberg and Kutcher, and includes clients such as Gatorage, Levi's Nikon, and Intel. The firm creates programming for television, film, and the web.

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Internet Brands Buys Two Women's Sites From eHarmony

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Weddingbee is an online blog focused on the wedding industry, brides, and wedding planning, and was launched in 2006. Los Angeles-based Internet Brands said Monday that it has acquired two web sites aimed at women, Weddingbee.com , and JustMommies.com from Pasadena-based eHarmony. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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Why You Should Put Yourself Out There and Try New Products

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In 2006 I started using Facebook and most of my friends & colleagues thought I was strange. In 2008 I started VC blogging. I had blogged when I was an entrepreneur. They thought it was like MySpace and why did I need a MySpace page?

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Why I’ve Shifted More Attention to Facebook

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And I’m going to cross post this entire post on Facebook as an experiment rather than just posting a link on FB and trying to drive people to my blog. So if you’re reading this on Facebook (or on my blog!) So throughout 2006/07 when I had really young kids Facebook was truly a social network for sharing family moments.

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VC Trends in 2019: More Money, Fewer Deals But Women Still Get Less

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billion into startups nationally during the first three months of 2019, the second largest amount for any quarter since at least 2006, according to data released overnight by PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association. Venture firms sent $32.6