August 2008

MediaBistro

MediaBistro.com was started by freelance journalist Laurel Touby in either 1993 or 1996, depending on your source.  It sold to Jupiter Media for $23 million in 2007.

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Cute Overload

New York Times story on CuteOverload.com “Meg Frost, a 36-year-old design manager at Apple, started cuteoverload.com three years ago to test Web software. Within months, it became an online institution, drawing about 88,000 unique visitors a day — about the same as the political gossip blog Wonkette.” “a “premium” ad on Cute Overload costs about [...]

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Mom-and-Pop Multinationals

This Business Week article is a few weeks old already but I just stumbled on it today.  It’s short but gives a great view on the state of the outsourcing marketplace industry today.  One interesting note is that “Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, bet nearly as much on Elance as it did on Google (GOOG) [...]

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