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Blogs	Description	Date Updated
Email From Jason Calacanis: How To Handle Layoffs	In his latest email newsletter, Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis discusses “How To Handle Layoffs.” It is a topic he knows too well, having had to go through a layoff of 10 percent of his staff earlier today. After repeating the text of his blog post announcing the layoffs, he offers some advice for other entrepreneurs on how to do it right. The email newsletter is reprinted below in its entirety: Location: Mahalo HQ, Santa Monica, CA Wednesday, October 22nd, 6:10PM PST. Word Count: 3,3...	October 22, 2008
Is The Economic Crisis Affecting European Startups At All?	A lot has already been said and written about the current economic crisis, and how the financial meltdown is and will keep on affecting startups in the US. VC’s and angel investors are telling their portfolio companies to say goodbye to the good times and batten down the hatches, and at the same time raising the bar for new financing rounds, while startup CEO’s are executing substantial lay-offs and some company founders are even jumping ship altogether. Little noise seems to be com...	October 20, 2008
Zillow zaps its workforce	Filed under: Management, Internet, EmployeesOver the past few weeks, a variety of tier-1 VCs have issued grim warnings to their portfolio companies. For example, Benchmark Capital's Bill Gurley has an extensive memo, which says that it will be critical for entrepreneurs to hunker down. Well, it looks like companies are taking note. Just look at Zillow.com (for which Benchmark is a backer). The company announced that it is letting go of 25% of its workforce (or 40 employees). No doubt, Zillow i...	October 19, 2008
VC Financings For Internet Startups Down 16 Percent in Third Quarter	The MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association came out this morning. It shows that total VC financings in the third quarter were down 7 percent compared to the same period last year, to $7.1 billion. That is also down about the same amount from the second quarter. In the chart above, I’ve plotted the dollar value of VC investments for each third quarter going back to 2001, coming off the last boom, when $8.3 billion was invested in VC-backed...	October 18, 2008
Keeping Count: The TechCrunch Layoff Tracker	After Silicon Valley woke up to the economic crisis last week and VCs rang the alarm bells, startups are starting to heed the call and tighten their belts for a long winter. As the slide above from Sequoia Capital illustrates, belt-tightening now may be the most prudent thing a startup can do. While nobody likes layoffs, least of all the employees losing their jobs, it increases a startup’s chance for survival by reducing how much cash they burn each month. This week alone, we’...	October 17, 2008
Down and out in Silicon Valley	Filed under: Next big thingEarly this year, I was on a panel of VCs, where we talked about the environment for startup entrepreneurs. I was kind of an outcast since I was the only one expressing negative sentiments. Basically, I thought the credit crunch would spillover into the techworld. To me, it seemed like common sense. After all, if the economy falters, then Corporate America is likely to make cutbacks in information technologies and advertising. Well, it looks like things are indeed unwi...	October 16, 2008
Jag.ag brings efficient mobile site creation to the masses	If the future of the web is the mobile web, then mobile site creation is going to be a big thing. A few services have already spotted the opportunity but Jag.ag a new service coming out from Israel has a very interesting product approach that could make it stand out. Just to makes things clear i am not referring to technologies that are porting existing websites to mobile devices like Mofuse (for RSS publishers’ usage), Infogin (another israeli startup for existing websites adaptation to m...	October 14, 2008
Only 55 VC Funds Raised Money In The Third Quarter (Down 29 Percent).	The third quarter saw the number of U.S. venture funds raising new cash decline by 29 percent to 55 funds, according to data from the National Venture Capital Association and Thomson Reuters. That compares to 78 new funds a year ago and 76 new funds in the second quarter of 2008. And 45 of that 55 were follow-on funds rather than new funds. Each of those funds, though, raised a lot more money on average. The total raised for the third quarter was $8.1 billion, down only 6 percent from the thi...	October 13, 2008
Profit Maximization V. Survival Maximization	A lot of criticism has been aimed at venture capitalists the last few days. The VCs are telling their portfolio companies to get ahead of the curve and conserve cash right now, and companies are starting to take their advice. The criticism is coming from people who don’t understand that the world has changed in the last week and that companies need to change with it. And so they’re asking why VCs waited until now to tell everyone to conserve cash. Others are saying the boom is the V...	October 11, 2008
Team Cyprus Move To Undo “The Video”	A group of twenty or so tech elite were partying 1999-style in Cyprusthis last week, and posted a lip sync video of the Journey song “Don’t Stop Believing” a couple of days ago. Among the group were Brittany Bohnet of Google, Mike Hudack of Blip.tv, Dave Morin and Aaron Sittig of Facebook, Sam Lessin of Drop.io and Jessica Vascellaro, the Wall Street Journal’s Silicon Valley beat reporter. Team Cyprus: Alcohol + Bad Judgement + Poor Timing The video was released just as Silicon Valley r...	October 10, 2008

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