5 posts and columns on James Slavet

Attention Shoppers: Coupons.com Grabs $30M in Funding From Greylock

in Commerce on October 3, 2011 at 8:00 am PT

VCs search for a bargain in longtime digital promotions site.
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One Kings Lane Raises $23 Million From Kleiner Perkins, Greylock & Others

in Commerce on February 11, 2011 at 3:00 am PT

One Kings Lane, which is competing in the trendy flash sales market, selling home décor, furnishings and accessories, has raised $23 million in a second round of funding.

BoomTown Has Yahoo's Qi Lu in Video Sights and Flubs It!

in News on June 19, 2008 at 8:33 pm PT

On Tuesday night, BoomTown reported from the Harvard Business School Association of Northern California dinner honoring Facebook. And, as usual, I was video-harassing Greylock Partner’s David Sze and James Slavet about the acquisition of Yahoo (YHOO) Network division head Jeff Weiner into the firm as an executive in residence. I prodded: “This is the pair [...]

Harvard Dropout Zuckerberg Feted by, Well, Harvard!

in News on June 18, 2008 at 5:12 am PT

Oh the sweet irony of Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg getting awarded a big round glass object, suitable for mantel-showing-off, from Harvard types. Especially since he is now the school’s second most famous tech mogul dropout–after Microsoft’s Bill Gates. But that was the case last night at the San Francisco Airport Hyatt Regency, where the 24-year-old Zuckerberg collected the 30th Entrepreneurial Company of the Year Award from the Harvard Business School Association of Northern California.
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