Narendra Rocherolle

Special Delivery for All: Message Bus Launches Email Service

Liz Gannes in Social on March 29, 2011 at 9:15 am PT

The co-founders of Webshots and Twitter’s early infrastructure and operations lead have started a new email services company called Message Bus that’s already backed with more than $3 million from True Ventures and Polaris Ventures.

The Start Project Gets Start-Up Stars as Advisers, Including Stone, Sacca, Mullenweg

Kara Swisher in News on February 1, 2010 at 1:57 pm PT

A new Silicon Valley business incubator called The Start Project has recruited a high-profile group of entrepreneurs as advisers, which it announced today on its Web site. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg, former Google exec and angel investor Chris Sacca, as well as Mike Tatum and David Liu, have all agreed to help the company’s start-ups before and during their creation.

When Overhyped Silicon Valley Start-Ups Collide: A Picture Is Worth 1,000 Words

Kara Swisher in News on March 23, 2009 at 12:28 am PT

Here is a great chart, posted on Flickr by Facebook third-party app maker Narendra Rocherolle, that shows the rising popularity of the search word “Twitter” on the social-networking site’s Lexicon. Facebook’s Lexicon counts “occurrences of words and phrases” on its Walls over time. Interestingly, Facebook has recently done a redesign that some critics are saying is too much of a panicked reaction to the hype around the microblogging service, although Twitter’s audience is just a tiny sliver of Facebook’s.