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JUNE 3, 2010

Users leave messages for each other through BlockChalk mobile app. Founded in January 2010 by Stephen Hood (ex-Delicious head of product), Dave Baggeroer (Stanford’s Institute of Design), and Josh Whiting (ex-senior engineer at Delicious and Craigslist). Mobile gifting service. “Location-based version of StickyBits”.

Venture Capital 214

Venture Capital Startup Design S3 214

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JUNE 18, 2010

An investment doesn’t guarantee your product will suddenly be on the investor’s price sheet. Reportedly, Softbank and Zynga have discussed jointly distributing games through Softbank’s mobile-phone service in Japan and other countries. first vertical to launch by 2010 Holiday Season. DST invested $180mm last fall.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Google Web Sites 225

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APRIL 15, 2010

I don’t believe that search is the only answer in 2010 as it was in 2000. 2.6mm in Series A : Canaan , Anthem. Stitcher - San Francisco-based service that lets users customize talk radio programming on their mobile devices. So my guess is that Tweetup needs to go “multi-stream&# (as in Facebook, MySpace, etc.).

Venture Capital 271

Venture Capital Capital Google Platform 271