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BoomTown Decodes Ron Conway's Super Angel Super Fit (So You Don't Have To)!

in News on September 24, 2010 at 2:57 am PT

Ah, there’s nothing like a manly hissy fit amongst a passel of white dudes in Silicon Valley to open the fall viewing season! In this latest episode of “Glee,” a group of Super Angel Cheerios plot to stop the entrepreneur kids from getting to the valuations they’ve been working so hard to inflate. Enter the Ron.

FriendFinder IPO: Invest $460 Million, Get a $95,000 Car

in Media on December 26, 2008 at 11:53 am PT

Potential investors in FriendFinder Networks don’t just get to own a piece of a debt-ridden collection of porn sites and social networks. They also get part ownership of a $95,000 car. But exactly what kind of $95,000 car are they getting?

Lloyd Braun's Not Going to Take It Anymore: "I Am Not an Umbrella Thief" (and He's Not, Actually)

in News on December 19, 2008 at 10:16 am PT

There it was again–like the gnarly ghost of Christmas past–in the Los Angeles Times this week. But this time Lloyd Braun wasn’t going to take it anymore. The object of his ire was dropped right in the middle of a blog post about how Yahoo was “reversing its Hollywoodification” at its Santa Monica media unit offices. The piece also included old allegations from a devastating story in November of 2005 about Braun, which made him look like a digital version of Ari Gold from “Entourage.” Unfortunately, as BoomTown has found out, the bulk of those juicy anecdotes about him don’t actually check out. And therein lies a complex tale that still reverberates at Yahoo today.