{"id":219,"date":"2008-07-30T09:01:08","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T09:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/2008\/07\/30\/betaworks_in_recent_news\/"},"modified":"2008-07-30T09:01:08","modified_gmt":"2008-07-30T09:01:08","slug":"betaworks_in_recent_news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/archives\/betaworks_in_recent_news.html","title":{"rendered":"Betaworks in Recent News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betaworks.com\">betaworks<\/a>, the new business creation platform I&#8217;m involved with based in NYC:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/oiu28\">TheDeal.com: Twitter acquires Summize, first exit for Betaworks<\/a><br \/>\nTwitter Inc. has indeed acquired New York conversation search engine startup Summize Inc., confirming a rumor that Tech Confidential had previously reported on. Terms are undisclosed&#8230;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/5oF1d\">Silicon Alley Insider: Betaworks Launches Bit.ly, A Smarter TinyURL<\/a><br \/>\nLaunching today: Bit.ly, a new Web URL-shortening tool from NYC-based tech shop Betaworks. What is it? Like TinyURL, is.gd, and others, Bit.ly takes a long URL and makes it shorter, ideal for Twittering, emailing, IMing, whatever&#8230;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1LwWnq\">CenterNetworks: The Bit.ly Interview: &#8220;No Comment&#8221; on Twitter URL Switch and Yes, They Have a Business Plan<\/a><br \/>\nThis morning I headed down to the Apple Soho neighborhood to meet with the team at Betaworks. I wanted to find out more about the URL shortener that&#8217;s apparently a tech blogger&#8217;s dream. The name of the URL shortener is bit.ly and bloggers including Marshall Kirkpatrick were in love with the tool like nothing else&#8230;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/AF4TD\">Silicon Alley Insider: Borthwick, Betaworks, and the Search for the Incubator Holy Grail<\/a><br \/>\nSince time immemorial (late 1990s), venture capitalists and entrepreneurs have sought the Holy Grail of start-up value creation: the perfect &#8220;incubator&#8221; model. This hypothetical wealth machine lies somewhere between &#8220;venture capital firm&#8221; and &#8220;operating company,&#8221; combining the best attributes of each&#8230;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/aR5rX\">TheDeal.com: Betaworks under the microscope<\/a><br \/>\nBetaworks might be the most influential early-stage investment firm no one&#8217;s ever heard of. If it&#8217;s take on Web 2.0 is right, that&#8217;s sure to change. Tech Confidential takes an in-depth look at the innovative New York firm and the business model co-founders John Borthwick (pictured) and Andrew Weissman are experimenting with&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read about betaworks, the new business creation platform I&#8217;m involved with based in NYC: TheDeal.com: Twitter acquires Summize, first exit for Betaworks Twitter Inc. has indeed acquired New York conversation search engine startup Summize Inc., confirming a rumor that Tech Confidential had previously reported on. Terms are undisclosed&#8230;. Silicon Alley Insider: Betaworks Launches Bit.ly, A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-startups-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}