Posts tagged Chris Sacca
With Khosla’s backing, Lookout aims to beef up mobile security (via postie)
Dec 21st
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A new company called Lookout wants to take on the growing security threats around smartphones. To do that, it just raised $5.5 million in a first round from investors including Khosla Ventures.
San Francisco-based Lookout evolved from Flexilis, a security consulting startup, which in turn was founded by graduates of the University of Southern California. The [...]
How Gowalla landed $8.4M for location-based game
Dec 9th
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Social game startup Gowalla has defied the conventional wisdom that there’s no venture capital available and that businesses today need to prove a profitable revenue model to attract investors. The 11-person Austin-based company has secured an $8.4 million second round of funding atop the $2 million the company raised in 2008.
The company’s iPhone [...]
How Gowalla lands $8.4M for location-based game
Dec 9th
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Social game startup Gowalla has defied the conventional wisdom that there’s no venture capital available and that businesses today need to prove a profitable revenue model to attract investors. The 11-person Austin-based company has secured an $8.4 million second round of funding atop the $2 million the company raised in 2008.
The company’s iPhone [...]
How Gowalla landed $8.4M in funding with a free app
Dec 9th
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Social network startup Gowalla has defied the conventional wisdom that there’s no venture capital available, and that businesses today need to prove a profitable revenue model to attract investors. The 11-person Austin-based company, which makes a free iPhone app that lets users share their location and identify things they’ve spotted at the site, [...]
Why Gowalla landed $8.4M in funding
Dec 9th
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Social network startup Gowalla has defied the conventional wisdom that there’s no venture capital available, and that businesses today need to prove a profitable revenue model to attract investors. The company, which makes a free iPhone app that lets users share their location and identify things they’ve spotted at the site, has secured [...]
