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Etsy Moves CTO Dickerson to CEO, Replacing Founder Rob Kalin

in Commerce on July 21, 2011 at 9:09 am PT

Etsy, the handmade goods online marketplace, has appointed its CTO Chad Dickerson as CEO. He replaces founder Rob Kalin, who stepped back into the top leadership role in late 2009.
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QOTD: That Said, Damning Google+ With Oldster Demo Praise

Google+ fills a void between public and private, it serves what is likely to be an older demo less interested in hooking up or hipstering out and more interested in the social utility it provides.

A VC Fred Wilson, in a later part of the same post on social networking companies.

QOTD: Keep Calm and Carry on, Twitter!

In any case, I hope Google+ succeeds. Given the blog posts saying this will kill Tumblr, Twitter, Foursquare, etc, you might wonder why I feel that way. Well first, I don’t think competitors kill companies and services. I think the vast majority of “deaths” are self inflicted.

– A VC Fred Wilson, on the newest entrant into social networking game.

"They Failed": VC Fred Wilson Gets BoomTown's First Annual Someone-Had-to-Say-It Award

in News on November 29, 2010 at 9:37 am PT

BoomTown has always enjoyed–although I have not always agreed with–the ruminations of Fred Wilson in his must-read blog, A VC. Today, the New York venture investor–heard of Foursquare or Twitter?–penned one that was flatly on point, simply titled”Chasing Returns” about a potential crisis in start-up funding. It’s a meme Silicon Valley might want to pay mind to.

Loco About Location? Or Just Plain Crazy?

in News on July 1, 2010 at 9:14 am PT

After the much anticipated news yesterday that Foursquare would finally grab a big piece of change from the powerful Silicon Valley venture firm Andreessen Horowitz–$20 million simoleons, in fact–BoomTown was much entertained by two very different blog post that went up about the deal. Their conclusion: There isn’t one.

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in News on December 1, 2009 at 11:25 pm PT

BoomTown gets guff about a lot of stuff, but no one is more passionate than those who wanted us to make our comment system better. And they were right. So while we never move fast enough, even for ourselves, tonight we have launched a new comments tool to improve the user experience on AllThingsD.com. It lets you do cool things, such as log in using Facebook Connect, comment easily from a mobile phone and comment via email. The tool we chose is called Disqus, and it’s used pretty widely on the Web.
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