David Kaplan
Sep 22, 2011 12:30 PM
Financial and media news online site network Business Insider has raised $7 million for what founder and editor Henry Blodget says will be a “ton more cool stuff over the next couple of years.”
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Media & Publishing, Online News, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, allen & co, business insider, gordon crovitz, institutional venture partners, ken lerer, marc andreessen, rre ventures
David Kaplan
Feb 19, 2010 1:57 PM
Mixed-media book publisher Vook has raised $2.5 million in seed funding as the company looks to capitalize on the wider adoption of e-readers and other portable devices. The funding comes from individual investors Ron Conway and Huffington Post chairman Ken Lerer, along with Maples Investments, Baseline Ventures and Founder Collective.…
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Media & Publishing, Books, e-readers, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, baseline ventures, founder collective, ken lerer, maples investments, vook
Staci D. Kramer
Jun 15, 2009 8:50 PM
One way to get some almost uninterrupted time with peripatetic Arianna Huffington: talk to her while she’s on jury duty, waiting to be picked. (I say almost because she has two cell phones and whichever one she’s not on is likely to ring.) We spoke Monday afternoon as news was…
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Advertising, Social Media, Nanopublishing, arianna huffington, eric hippeau, huffington post, ken lerer
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