Caterina Fake

Caterina Fake: Fast Growth for a New Social App Is a Very Bad Thing

Liz Gannes in Social on February 24 at 11:00 am PT

If you get her started, Caterina Fake sounds almost like a professor of social networking philosophy.

eBay Buys Hunch

Peter Kafka in Commerce on November 21, 2011 at 6:57 am PT

One of a string of pickups for eBay.

What’s Really Behind The Facebook/Google Real Name Debate?

Liz Gannes in Social on August 8, 2011 at 4:10 pm PT

It seems to me that the larger issue in this ongoing real names debate is not who you say you are, but the usefulness of a unified Web identity.

Caterina Fake Raising $2M for New Social Start-Up

Liz Gannes in Social on June 20, 2011 at 11:39 am PT

Caterina Fake, co-founder of Flickr and Hunch and an investor in companies like Etsy, has a new start-up that she says will be consumer-facing and social.

Kickstarter Fesses Up: The Crowdsourced Funding Start-Up Has Funding, Too

Peter Kafka in Media on March 17, 2011 at 6:47 pm PT

About $10 million in funding, it turns out. From some pretty high-profile folks, too: Union Square Ventures, Betaworks and lots of angels you’ve heard of. For some reason, the company hasn’t talked about them before. But that’s over now, courtesy of a Wired profile.

1000Memories Funded by Greylock, Angels

Liz Gannes in Social on February 16, 2011 at 4:00 am PT

1000Memories, the social media site for friends and family to memorialize loved ones who’ve passed away, is disclosing today it has raised $3 million worth of funding.

Apple's Jobs Tops BoomTown's 10 Most Fascinating Techies in 2010 Survey

Kara Swisher in News on January 3, 2011 at 8:02 am PT

Of course, he won. Dominating tech’s mindshare and press coverage in 2010, Apple CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs also handily took the No. 1 slot of a reader poll conducted by BoomTown in the last days of year. No one else even came close.

Former Googler Adam Freed Takes COO Job at Etsy, As It Crafts More Funding

Kara Swisher in News on August 27, 2010 at 6:36 am PT

Former Google international exec Adam Freed has taken a job as COO of Etsy, the crafts e-commerce site, which just raised another $20 million in venture funding. Index Ventures is part of the new round, which also includes previous investor Accel Partners. Freed speaks nine languages, which will come in handy at Etsy, since it helps craftspeople globally sell handmade items online.

Hunch Gets It Right, Adds a $10 Million Series B Round Led by Khosla Ventures

Peter Kafka in Media on March 12, 2010 at 1:40 pm PT

The crowdsourced recommendations site led by Caterina Fake and Chris Dixon gets a big vote of confidence from a high-profile investor.

Hunch's Fake and Dixon Speak (And They've Got a Hunch, You Might Not Get Exactly What It Is Yet)

Kara Swisher in News on February 18, 2010 at 10:42 am PT

When Aardvark was sold to Google for $50 million last week, a lot of folks wondered about the fate of Hunch, another hot start-up in the space. Except, as correctly noted by two of its four co-founders, Caterina Fake and Chris Dixon, in a chat BoomTown had yesterday, Hunch is quite different–more of an algorithmically hopped up recommendation service that makes use of a mass of data from user-generated questions and answers than a simple social search service. Here’s an interview with Fake and Dixon on the progress made so far to figure out the fate of the year-old start-up.