7 posts and columns on Mark Kvamme

What Happens When a Social Media Company Goes Public? Twitpics, Blog Posts and Trending Topics.

in Social on May 19, 2011 at 8:55 am PT

LinkedIn is notable for being the first major social networking company to go public, but it’s also one of the first companies to go public whose leaders are avid social networking users.

LinkedIn Raises $53 Million at $1 Billion Valuation

in News on June 17, 2008 at 5:43 pm PT

In a much-expected financing, LinkedIn has joined the big funding club (Slide, Spot Runner) of late, by raising $53 million at a startling $1 billion valuation. Why go public when you can just pretend? Actually, unlike a lot of Web 2.0 start-ups, the professional-networking site has been profitable since 2006. The new slug of cash comes from new investor Bain Capital Ventures, along with existing investors Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners and Bessemer Ventures.
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Searchme: A New Visual Search Engine

in News on March 11, 2008 at 12:03 am PT

Today, Sequoia Capital, which has been a key investor of search giant Google, as well as Yahoo, will unveil its latest investment in search, a visual search engine called: Searchme. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company, which has been germinating for three years, has raised $25 million from Sequoia and others to further its efforts to make search look more lively.

If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again…

in News on March 3, 2008 at 3:42 am PT

Was it just me or did you also get a bit of déjà vu upon reading a story today by the New York Times’s Laura M. Holson about yet another mash-up of a Hollywood talent agencies with Silicon Valley VCs. That’s apparently what is happening with a new investment venture that includes the William Morris [...]

Jerry O'Connell Channels Tom Cruise

in News on January 23, 2008 at 12:01 am PT

Until the writers’ strike in Hollywood is over–who knew it would go on this long?–BoomTown has decided to offer periodic suggestions about cool new stuff to watch. Today, it is this gem from online video comedy site Funny or Die, in which Jerry O’Connell (who knew he was so hilarious?) does a mean and spot-on [...]

Sequoia Capital's Mark Kvamme Speaks!

in News on January 17, 2008 at 4:23 am PT

We at BoomTown are very interested in content on the Web these days, especially given the ongoing writers’ strike in Hollywood and its wrangling over digital (and a whole lot of other) issues. The intersection–or perhaps collision is a better word–of the entertainment and technology industries continues at an ever more frantic pace. And it’s [...]

"Good Cop, Baby Cop"

in News on January 17, 2008 at 3:00 am PT

Here is the second “baby” comedy video from the Funny or Die archives with Will Ferrell and a very tough toddler, played by Pearl McKay, called “Good Cop, Baby Cop”: Good Cop, Baby Cop on FunnyOrDie.com And here is the post and video of FOD investor Mark Kvamme of Sequoia Capital talking about the online [...]