Being early to market isn’t always an advantage. Especially when you may have been a little too early for mass consumer adoption–and are owned by the VC arm of A big corporation like Cantor Fitzgerald. Enter Delivery.com. Read More
You guys remember SecondLife, right? The virtual world that was going to revolutionize education, branding, and human interaction? The one whose economy, based on the Linden Dollar, rivaled some tiny European country’s GDP?
Not sure whether anyone’s avatar is still living (or learning) there, but founder Philip Rosedale has moved on, with an eye to IRL.
As AllThingsD reports, his new startup, Coffee & Power, is an online market that lets users buy and sell small tasks. Read More
It looks like a few big names have picked their horse they want to bet on in the convenience economy. And then saddled that horse up with bags of cash.
Today Zaarly, the marketplace that matches people who have tasks they need to get done with people willing to do them (for a price and within the specified time frame), just announced it picked up $14 million investment round led by Kleiner Perkins. For comparison TaskRabbit, one of Zaarly’s many competitors, raised a more modest series A at $5 million in May.
Zaarly, which counts Michael Arrington, Ashton Kutcher and AngelList’s Naval Ravikant as seed investors, also announced a would-be governor on their board: current HP CEO and former eBay CEO Meg Whitman. Read More
