Three Weeks to Money: How long a seed investment should really take
Some financing rounds seem to go really fast. Others drag on for months and months. The problem with dragging it on is twofold– a) The entrepreneur is distracted from doing what they need to do–i.e. running the business. b) There really isn’t any more actual information to pour over–it’s just a lot of thinking and talking about the same things over and over again. Most investors could probably get you money and docs signed within 10 days if they really needed to get into something, but that’s probably not realistic for all deals. So what should the right amount ... → Read More
Thisisgoingtobebig - Monday, October 7, 2013
Good morning! Hope you had a great weekend. Here’s some news to kick-start your Monday: Samsung’s new large-screen phone, the Galaxy Note 3, goes on sale this week. It’s getting great reviews, despite the fact that it’s larger than a Pop-Tart. The FBI is having trouble tracking down the Silk Road founder’s bitcoin stash, which could be worth $ 80 million. A teenager explains the proper way to use emojis. Twitter left out two years of financial data from its S-1. Apple is reportedly making a strong push to expand in India. Samsung launched a TV ad for its Galaxy ... 
Mobile messaging app Line, which has been on a marketing push in India, has added 10 million Indian users to its registered users count in around three months, as it prepares to kick off a Bollywood actress-backed TV ad campaign in the country. Since officially launching in India, Line said voice calls on its service have grown 3,200 %, use of stickers is up 1,800%, and messages have grown by 700% since June 2013. Line revealed the growth figures in a blog but did not specify how many of these new signups are staying active vs trying and then ditching its app. ... 
Nielsen is set to publish its first report with TV rankings based on data from Twitter. The report, which comes out on Monday according to the Wall Street Journal, will look at the number of tweets about a show and the size of the audience that sees them. This is an important move for Twitter ahead of its IPO because it sees TV-related data as an important part of its monetization plans. Providing data about TV viewer engagement is also a key part of Twitter’s rivalry with Facebook, which has been trying to distract from the Nielsen-Twitter partnership by presenting ... 
There has been no shortage of leaks that claim to show off Google’s next Nexus smartphone (including this not-so-subtle nod from Google itself) over the past weeks and months, but we may have just hit the mother lode this weekend. The folks at Android Police have gotten their hands on a hefty, near-final draft of a 281-page service manual for the forthcoming device, which still technically bears the LG D821 model number. Really though, LG isn’t fooling anyone here. The document is chock full of diagrams and images (some of the device in various states of disassembly) that depict a ... 