Connie Loizos

Jet travel has turned another ugly new corner. JetBlue announced today that customers wanting a pillow and blanket for their cross-country flight will now have to cough up $7 for the privilege. The move follows other unwelcome changes, including charging customers needing seats with extra leg room, charging anyone traveling with more than one checked […]

When former Wall Street analyst Lise Buyer helped take Google public in 2004, anything seemed possible. Yet on the heels of a quarter when not a single technology company went public, most in Silicon Valley are no longer sanguine about their options. Buyer doesn’t understand why. “I get cranky when talk turns to an IPO […]

When former Wall Street analyst Lise Buyer helped take Google public in 2004, anything seemed possible. Yet on the heels of a quarter when not a single technology company went public, most in Silicon Valley are no longer sanguine about their options. Buyer doesn’t understand why. “I get cranky when talk turns to an IPO […]

[Major update to this story, which I posted yesterday morning, 7/31. In a nutshell, it’s wrong; my apologies. Proofpoint told me soon after I’d posted that it was confused by what I’d seen, so I sent over the SEC Reg D filing relating to this funding. I didn’t hear back until just now, Friday morning, […]

Though he’s also founded a Linux services company and a WiFi startup, serial entrepreneur Dave Sifry is best known for founding Technorati, an early blog search engine company that several months ago reemerged as an advertising network for blogs. Sifry is still the chair of Technorati, but the 39-year-old left his CEO post last year […]

Yesterday, I chatted with Richard Wolpert, the affable managing director of the seed-stage Mail Room Fund — a joint venture by Accel Partners, Venrock, AT&T and talent agency William Morris. I posted part of our conversation yesterday. Below is more from that discussion. Are you the only person involved in Mail Room Fund who would […]

Monday, I mentioned the current project of GoFish founder Michael Downing. Yesterday, I interviewed another person trying to raise an early-stage venture fund based on the strength of a network of venture partners that he has assembled. The entrepreneur is Geoff Schneider of Wilton, Connecticut. Schneider was most recently a vice president of sales at […]

Richard Wolpert and Mike Maples are seed-stage investors and friends who speak at least once a month. But the two disagree about whether the consumer Internet has grown too bubbilicious. Maples thinks it has, as he told me last week; Wolpert, managing director of the seed-stage Mail Room Fund — a joint venture by Accel […]

I might have been the only person in the Bay Area who didn’t make it to TechCrunch’s third annual schmoozefest at the Sand Hill Road offices of August Capital on Friday night. Having just watched some refreshingly good footage of the event by blogger Zennie Abraham, I know better what I missed. While Abraham walks […]