8 posts and columns on Bryce Roberts

Early Adopter: Pothole-Reporting App SeeClickFix Raises $1.5 Million to Help You Be a Squeakier Wheel

in News on January 14, 2011 at 11:00 am PT

It’s a fine line between keeping your potholes filled and walls graffiti free and being a civic tattletale. Civic nuisance reporting app SeeClickFix lets you toe the line, and just got another $1.5 million from O’Reilly AlphaTech and Omidyar to help users keep at it.

The Men and No Women of Web 2.0 Boards (BoomTown's Talking to You: Twitter, Facebook, Zynga, Groupon and Foursquare)

in News on December 21, 2010 at 2:44 pm PT

Simply put: The five top Web 2.0 superstar companies have no women on their board of directors. As in zero.

Don’t Call It a "Bubble," Says Fred Wilson. But Things Are…”Troubling."

in Media on November 12, 2010 at 9:48 am PT

One of tech’s most prominent investors sees “storm clouds.” But he’s not running for cover.

Is a Shorter Web Address Worth Big Money? bit.ly Raises $2 Million

in Media on March 30, 2009 at 11:30 am PT

What’s the value of a service that takes a long Web address and makes it shorter–but doesn’t have a business model? Several million dollars, according to investors who have just sunk $2 million into bit.ly, a start-up incubated by the Betaworks gang.
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