2 posts and columns on Jame Joaquin

A New CEO for Mitch Kapor's Foxmarks

in News on November 17, 2008 at 5:00 am PT

Last Friday, BoomTown paid a visit to James Joaquin, who has just been officially appointed the new CEO of Foxmarks, the Mitch Kapor-backed start-up that makes a free bookmarking and password syncing add-on for the Firefox browser. The San Francisco-based company had also has gotten $5 million in funding from Redpoint Ventures earlier this summer. With the arrival of Joaquin, Foxmarks is trying to move into a mode of carving out a business with its assets, including using its data and expanding beyond the Firefox browser. Here’s a video interview with Joaquin about it.

Kara Visits Holiday Parties, Internet Style!

in News on December 17, 2007 at 3:27 am PT

Yes, indeedy, this is about as insider as you get in Silicon Valley. But we are just addled enough by all the spiked eggnog we drank this weekend to think you might be interested in this video we did at a variety of industry holiday parties BoomTown attended. They include a stop at angel investor [...]