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Peter Pham 
12 posts and columns on Peter Pham
Startup Studio Science Hires Digital Veteran Jason Rapp
The Mahalo, IAC and New York Times veteran joins the startup factory.
The Science of Investing: Hearst’s New Venture Arm in $30 Million Funding Deal With Los Angeles Tech Studio
New York media meets Silicon Beach.
L.A. Stories: Mike Jones and Peter Pham Talk About the Science of Tech Studios (Video)
Down in SoCal, there is some serious start-up experimentation going on.
Former Color Co-Founder Peter Pham Heads to Former Myspace CEO’s L.A. Tech Studio (Video)
The well-known Silicon Valley entrepreneur joins Mike Jones at Science.
Confirmed: Co-founder Peter Pham Leaves Color
Peter Pham, co-founder and president at the social networking start-up Color, has left the company, both he and Color CEO Bill Nguyen confirmed.
Video: With $41M in Hand, Color Offers New Proximity-Based Social Network
Bill Nguyen, the serial entrepreneur who most recently sold Lala to Apple for around $80 million, is today launching Color, a proximity-based social network with no privacy settings.
Behind the Scenes at D@CES Event and Party (Including a Geek Chat With Punky Brewster!)
Here’s a lovely video BoomTown did behind the scenes at our interview event and after-party at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last Friday, including interviews with Cisco Flip unit head Jonathan Kaplan, Billshrink’s Peter Pham, Consumer Electronics Association head Gary Shapiro and–drum roll–former “Punky Brewster” star Soleil Moon Frye, who was there for Kodak. Yippie! Grossaroo! Holy Macanoli! Punky Power!
Kara Visits The Lobby Party on Sand Hill Road (As Opposed to the Sandy Beaches of Hawaii)
Last night, BoomTown went to a lovely party thrown by David Hornik, the August Capital VC who also runs The Lobby conference in his spare time. He threw the event because those who attend the annual invitation-only gathering in Hawaii wanted to get together again during the year in Silicon Valley for even more schmoozing. I went to the first Lobby in the fall of 2007, so Hornik let me in to have some pizza and beer at August’s offices on Sand Hill Road and use my Flip video to ask those in attendance where they thought the digital sector was in terms of the economy and innovation.
BillShrink's Pham Speaks About the T-Mobile Deal, the Econalypse and More!
Last week, BoomTown paid an economically-minded visit to the Redwood City, Calif., offices of BillShrink, a Silicon Valley start-up aimed at helping consumers find cheaper prices on gas, cellphones and plans and credit cards via a Web-based comparison and alert system. Launched about a year ago and armed with about $9 million in funding from Bessemer Venture Partners and Trinity Ventures, it has aims of moving into a range of other money-saving arenas too. But today, it got a major boost in its existing business by inking a deal to be part of a huge national advertising campaign by T-Mobile aimed at boosting price awareness among consumers, an apt message for these econalyptic times.
Kara Visits Burda's DLD Luncheon in Silicon Valley!
Germany’s Hubert Burda Media threw a big luncheon in Palo Alto yesterday, which was stuffed full with Silicon Valley types. It was hosted by the company’s Steffi Czerny and Maria Burda, the wife of CEO and owner Hubert Burda, as well as well-known Israeli investor Yossi Vardi. Burda runs an annual digital conference in Munich, called DLD (Digital, Life, Design), even though the media giant is best known for its old-line magazines about fashion, cooking and crafts. So here’s the video!