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- Can Virtual Goods Boost the Economy?
- The venture capitalist Bill Gurley has an insightful post on why virtual goods will emerge as the economic engine for many kinds of online companies, especially those with a community aspect, like gaming, and social networks. In How to Monetize a Social Network, he points out the success of...
- Blog posts 2009-03-17
- Google's Stock Option Repricing: Investors, Just Get Over It!
- Bill Gurley submits: Prominent finance publications like the WSJ and the Motley Fool along with several bloggers have recently taken shots at Google GOOG with respect to their decision to re-price a boat-load of employee stock options. Just to review the details, in their last earnings call Google...
- External links 2009-02-02
- Swine Flu: Is the Overreaction More Costly than the Virus Itself?
- Bill Gurley submits: It is reassuring to see the press take a more modulated view of the swine-flu risks, especially as it becomes clear that both deaths and incidents have been overstated in the past week. Our “instant on” media has an insatiable appetite for the scintillating story....
- External links 2009-05-02
- Is Apple Planning to Make an Actual TV? Makes Sense to Me
- Bill Gurley submits: There is a lot of buzz in Silicon Valley circles that Apple AAPL may be working on an actual physical television (as opposed to the set-top box product known as AppleTV). There have also been assertions by business analysts that such a product is coming. I...
- External links 2009-05-30
- Thoughts on the Current IPO Market
- Bill Gurley submits: Last Thursday, while attending the Wall Street Journal "D" conference, I was asked by Scott Wapner at CNBC to share my thoughts on the current IPO market. Here's the video: by Bill Gurley
- External links 2009-06-01
- Megastudy: Interesting Korean Online Education Company
- Bill Gurley submits: Yesterday’s New York Times has a half page article on a billion dollar (US$) public Korean company named Megastudy. My partner Peter Fenton and I had the luxury of meeting with this company a few years back, and I always had hoped to find the...
- External links 2009-06-02
- Amazon's Cloud Strategy Becomes Clearer Every Day
- Bill Gurley submits: Last fall, I had a unique opportunity to visit Amazon AMZN and learn more about their web services (AWS) strategy. From where I sit as a VC, it was obvious they were winning. You could see it in the number of startups that were building...
- External links 2009-06-09
- I Do Not Believe Zappos Was Forced to Sell to Amazon
- Bill Gurley submits: There are quite a few stories circulating in the blogosphere and Twittersphere discussing the recent acquisition of Zappos by Amazon AMZN. Some of these articles have a quite sinister and devious tone, imagining some remarkable behind-the-scenes drama that would make Spielberg pay attention. Here are two...
- External links 2009-07-27
- Free vs. Fee: More of a Threat than a Strategy, Though Something to Contend With
- Bill Gurley submits: As I was driving to work this morning listening to NPR, it became clear to me that this “free vs fee” discussion has some legs to listen to the NPR piece click here. Last week, Rosetta Stone RST was back in the news with...
- External links 2009-08-21
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- Benchmark Capital Completes Financing With Respond.com; Bill Gurley Invests Twice In Respond.com
- MENLO PARK, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--June 8, 1999-- Benchmark Capital, the leading high-tech venture capital investment firm, today announced its investment in Respond.comTM. General Partner Bill Gurley led the investment and will be a Director of the Company. This is Gurley's first investment as a Benchmark Partner and his second...
- Research articles 1999-06-08
- Bill Gurley Joins Benchmark Capital as General Partner
- MENLO PARK, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--March 10, 1999--Benchmark Capital, Silicon Valley's leading early-stage high-tech venture capital investment firm, today announced that Bill Gurley has joined the firm as a General Partner.
- Research articles 1999-03-10
- New businesses: a listing of business start-ups in Arkansas
- BALM INNOVATIONS Owners: Lydia Carson and Dr. Bill Gurley Address: 4301 W. Markham # 831, Little Rock 72205 Phone: (501) 255-1562, (888) 577-6580 Hours: 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday Startup: November 2005 E-mail: info@omnibalm.com Web site: www.omnibalm.com Dr. Bill Gurley and Lydia Carson...
- Research articles 2006-01-23
- ADVISORY/Blueprint: Business Strategy Summit for Internet Companies
- Business Editors/High Tech Writers ADVISORY...for June 27 (Tues.) --BUSINESS WIRE WHO: Key Speakers: Marc Andressen, Loudcloud, formerly of AOL/Netscape; Karen Edwards, Yahoo; Bill Gurley of Benchmark Capital; Yogen Dalal of Mayfield Fund; Doug Leone of Sequoia ...
- Research articles 2000-06-21
- REMINDER/Blueprint: Business Strategy Summit for Internet Companies
- Business Editors/High Tech Writers REMINDER...for June 27 (Tues.) --BUSINESS WIRE WHO: Key Speakers: Marc Andressen, Loudcloud, formerly of AOL/Netscape; Karen Edwards, Yahoo; Bill Gurley of Benchmark Capital; Yogen Dalal of Mayfield...
- Research articles 2000-06-26
- employeesavings.com Receives $5M From Benchmark Capital, Names New CEO and Senior Officers
- BELLEVUE, Wash.--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 14, 1999-- Bill Gurley, Benchmark General Partner, Joins Board of Directors Norman Behar, former Egghead and Catapult leader, joins as president and CEO employeesavings.com, the premier provider of Employer Sponsored Value Plans ESVPs serving Fortune 1000 companies, today announced the completion of a...
- Research articles 1999-09-14
- What's really happening to the VC industry
- Editors' note: This guest column was originally published on Bill Gurley's blog. See his bio below.Many are speculating that the year 2009 represents a fundamental turning point for the venture capital industry. Some are arguing that the industry is in dire straits after years of poor performance. Others have argued...
- News items 2009-08-26
- Slingbox Founder Backs Net-TV Startup
- Blake Krikorian, founder and former CEO of Sling Media, has joined the board of Clicker Media, a Los Angeles-based startup hoping to become "the complete programming guide" for Internet television, the company announced Thursday. Krikorian left Sling -- inventor of the Slingbox TV "place-shifting" device -- in January 2009 along...
- News items 2009-11-05
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