Posted by Tom Blue on August 14, 2009 under Companies, Funding | 
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TechCrunch is reporting that mywebgrocer just received $10M in funding. This is a 10 year old company and it is very rare for a bootstrapped company that is profitable to take venture capital money. I assume they saw an opportunity to really grow with some capital. It would be interesting to see their term sheet.
Posted by Tom Blue on November 17, 2008 under Companies, Funding, Technology | Be the First to Comment
Techcrunch wrote a post about infoaxe today. They have a plugin that tracks all of the sites you have been to and then allows you to search those pages like a normal search engine at a later date. I think this is a great idea because I constantly am digging through my history searching for a page I went to before. Sometimes I am able to find it, but many times I am not. In addition, the reason why it has so much more value than a normal bookmarking service is that you deep search it more. I don’t have time to bookmark every single site I go to, but I might remember some text that I want to search for later. I am looking forward to infoaxe’s success so that they will later build a Google Chrome plugin…
Posted by Tom Blue on November 12, 2008 under Companies, Funding, Technology | Be the First to Comment
I noticed on TechCrunch that Flipswap just got $14M in funding. The company’s model stood out for me because I just saw a special on 60 Minutes on electronic waste coined “eWaste.” Apparently 100 million cell phones are thrown out every year. The problem is that our electronics like cellphones, laptops, and monitors are shipped to other countries to be decomposed and melted down and the regulations in these countries can be extremely poor. Meaning when these products are broken down they are just releasing this pollution in the sky and many of the workers can get sick from this process.
It looks like Flipswap can not only help the environment but also help your pocketbook.