I am chairing one of our fun Innovation Bay dinners again on the 7th August.
Our special guest this time is Graeme Wood, CEO of Wotif.com. Graeme founded this online accommodation bookings site in 2000 and recently listed it on the Australian Stock Exchange. Wotif sells accommodation in over 35 countries and has over 1 million users per month.
It should be a great evening with much Web 2.0 and beyond discussion.
Categories: Blogroll · Media · Socnet · Startups · Sydney · Web
US venture capital investing stats are in for the first half of 2006 [Ernst & Young/VentureOne].
The good news is that the investment quantum is at its highest since 2001 and a 13% increase on 2005: $12.97 billion was placed into 1,213 companies.
Information-technology investments rose 8%, while health-care investments grew a whopping 25%.
This augurs well for the tech space.
Categories: Blogroll · Tech/Silicon Valley · Venture Capital
Just as MySpace reportedly goes down, so we discover yet another music-centric social network: Amie Street.
However, this one is different…it has a neat demand driven pricing and user-incentivised business model.
Michael Arrington explains how they work over at Techcrunch.
