6 posts and columns on Howard Lindzon

Mobile Marketing Start-Up PlaceIQ Raises $1 Million From Angels, Ad Guys

in Media on April 5, 2011 at 10:30 am PT

All of those cool mobile apps you’re using to check in to places, take photos of places, and tell friends about places you’re going to? All of that information might be useful to marketers, right?

Klout Gets Some More Clout–$8.5M in Funding and a Big (Actually, Bing!) Board Members

in News on January 10, 2011 at 5:30 am PT

Online influence measurement site Klout got $8.5 million in new funding, led by Kleiner Perkins and from its socially focused sFund. Kleiner’s venture partner Bing Gordon will join the board. Greycroft Partners is also participating in this round.

TicketFly Rounds Up $3 Million to Fight Ticketmaster

in Media on May 12, 2010 at 8:30 am PT

Average concertgoers go to two shows a year, and there’s a very good chance some of the money they spend on those shows goes to Ticketmaster, which dominates the ticketing business. So here’s a company that wants a piece of that: TicketFly, a New York-based start-up that wants to–gasp!–use the Web to update the archaic business.

Twitter App Investors Still Writing Checks: StockTwits Raises a Round

in Media on May 18, 2009 at 3:00 am PT

Nope, Twitter still hasn’t trotted out a business model yet, and that may or may not be a problem for potential acquirers like Google or Microsoft. But it’s a nonissue for a growing number of start-ups hoping to succeed simply by positioning themselves in Twitter’s general vicinity. Today’s example: StockTwits, a day-trader-meets-Twitter site that just raised $800,000 from venture capital firm True Ventures.
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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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Twitter Launches Another Business It Doesn’t Make Money From: Trading Site StockTwits Raises $800,000

in Media on December 17, 2008 at 9:44 am PT

Twitter’s executives and investors tend to roll their eyes when people ask them when they’re going to start, you know, generating revenue. Maybe that’s because there’s a really obvious answer: Start collecting money from the many companies that are using Twitter’s infrastructure and service to create their own businesses. Newest example: StockTwits, a Twitter-based bulletin board/chat room for individual investors