Geoff Ralston

Start-Up Accelerators Get Topic-Specific: Education, Health and Now Cleantech

Liz Gannes in Social on May 24, 2011 at 8:38 am PT

Start-up accelerators in the mold of Y Combinator are themselves a growth industry and now some are centered on specific topics rather than just common location.

Geoff Ralston Talks About Education Incubator, Imagine K12

Kara Swisher in News on May 23, 2011 at 6:01 am PT

Instead of heading to another company or starting one, longtime Silicon Valley Geoff Ralston is about to welcome a new crop of start-ups to Imagine K12, a new education incubator. Ralston explains it all in the video after the jump.

Lala’s Fire Sale That Wasn’t: What Apple Really Paid

Peter Kafka in Media on December 7, 2009 at 10:49 am PT

On Friday, I reported that Apple was buying Lala at a fire-sale price, which meant that investors in the music service wouldn’t get their money. I was wrong. Apple ended up paying around $80 million for the company, according to multiple sources. That’s less than half what investors valued the company at in 2008, but it’s more than the $35 million the company raised throughout its life. Which means that some investors could get their money back and more.