Boston Green Goods (um, located in Waltham) got some good ink from the WSJ today for their website Greenandmore.com. The pic above is their solar powered phone/iPod/PSP charger, which runs about $120. And the wind-up flashlights are pretty awesome, too. You can do so much for the earth without having to stand in Downtown Crossing [...]
Archive for November, 2007
Green Christmas
Posted in cleantech, commerce, tagged Boston Green Goods, cleantech on November 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Customer Service and the Death of the Big Box Store
Posted in commerce, tagged big box, Home Depot on November 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Yeah, finding a rodent infestation has to be kind of a tough thing for Home Depot to handle. (Via WickedLocal) But this juxtaposition between the PR statement and customer quotes is priceless:
“We don’t serve food,” said Bowman. “That construction has really caused a lot of [the problems seen].” Bowman insisted that the rodent problems were [...]
Talbot’s Loses Money, Ditches Arnold
Posted in advertising, commerce, tagged advertising, Arnold, Talbots on November 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
What doesn’t global warming ruin? Arctic vacations, guiltless SUV purchases, the clothing market. Hingham-based Talbot’s lost $9.4 million in the third quarter thanks in part to the warmer weather this year. And Arnold takes the blame, getting the ax in favor of Publicis, a New York firm. Now, I know little about Publicis, but what [...]
Back From Vacation, China Still Important
Posted in venture, web, tagged Bain, Google, Youku on November 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Following closely on my last post, it was announced this morning that Chinese video site Youku.com raised $25 mil in funding in Series C funding, led by Brookside Capital Partners (affiliated with Boston’s Bain Capital). Of course, the press release says Youku.com is China’s leading video site, contrary to what Tudou says. Who’s the victor? [...]
China’s Youtube, via Cambridge
Posted in venture, web, tagged General Catalyst, Tudou, VC on November 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I was researching an article on web piracy (published today by Slate) when I first came across a Chinese video site called Tuduo. It seems to be interested in becoming China’s youtube (though the copyright policing is not at youtube’s level yet–which is how I came by them in the first place.) Or maybe better. [...]
CapitalGains: Backchannelmedia, First Round, ~$10 mil
Posted in capitalgains, venture, web, tagged backchannelmedia, capitalgains, VC on November 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Boston’s Backchannelmedia closed out another $3 mil this quarter, raising their total to $10 mil over the past two years. (via PEHub) The basic idea behind backchannelmedia is that–and this is their own words–that “television advertising should become accountable.” In other words, bcm can track the efficiency of those big ad dollars by linking [...]
Stay Tuned for the Worst
Posted in real estate, tagged real estate on November 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Bad news for Mass. on the foreclosure front. (via the Globe)
There were 3,115 petitions to foreclose filed in Land Court in August, the highest number of petitions filed in one month since the Warren Group began collecting foreclosure data in January 2005, the firm said. That August number rose 75.5 percent from the number [...]
Turn Right for Sale
Posted in mobile, venture, tagged mobile, uLocate on November 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
uLocate, a company I’ve written about in the past, held a contest recently for mobile developers looking to get some attention from VCs. The winners provide a good look at some of the smart things coming from area mobile tech:
Winning entry Yokel is a location enabled shopping portal that helps consumers find the availability and [...]
Boston Kicks Hollywood While They’re Down
Posted in venture, web, tagged hollywood, unions, VC on November 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Those striking writers can’t just picket and smoke cigarettes all day. They do need to make some burrito money. Enter Boston (via WSJ):
Spark Capital Partners LLC, a Boston venture-capital firm with investments that include online entertainment, is heading to Los Angeles this week to meet with a handful of disgruntled writers. “I don’t know if [...]
Pay No Attention To That Disease Behind the Curtain
Posted in biotech, tagged biogen, biotech on November 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This morning’s Globe story about Biogen notes that its stock has declined by about 14 percent since it hit the sale block around mid-October. All of this seems to be due to the fact that people aren’t really sure that a deal will be made for Biogen. The Globe quotes one analyst’s optimism about a [...]
