1. Wondering what happened to serial entrepreneur Marc Pincus, founder of Tribe.net — the social network I used a lot post-Friendster and pre-Facebook when I was more in the SF Burning Man world.
2. Found he sold the software and engineering of Tribe to Cisco in 2007, which I vaguely remembered, and started a casual gaming company named after his beloved, now-late dog: Zynga.com
3. Zynga just raised $29m on top of the $10m from last year! Who was involved in that? Kleiner Perkins, IVP, Union Square Ventures, Avalon Ventures, Foundry Group. Foundry Group? Who’s that?
4. Turns out the Foundry Group is a VC firm in Boulder doing a couple interesting things – for example, trying to accelerate the development of its native Boulder as a startup hotspot, something I’d like to see more of in Vancouver.
5. The Foundry Group also has a great series of blog posts laying out its thematic investment philosophy. In a nutshell, they are focusing on startups that solve problems in a couple different areas: Human-Computer Interaction, Implicit Web, Email, Glue, and Digital Life.
6. What time is it? Time to get back to work.
[Possibly related posts]:
- A Few Key People I keep coming back to Mark Suster’s Techcrunch/BothSides article —...
- P2P lending org Kiva’s background and future Excellent read for those interested in social entrepreneurship: Kiva co-founder...
- Globalization vs. Apocalypse: Peter Thiel edition Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, managing partner at VC firm...
- Bombay expats wiki New project! This is a community resource for all expats...
