Comments on: Facebook Funders Launch Facebook Fund for App Developers

By: Goldgrube eingestürzt « Peter Schüpbach - NewBorn Blog

Goldgrube eingestürzt « Peter Schüpbach - NewBorn Blog — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 04:30:35 +0000

[...] wenig Loyalität und damit auch nur mit einem kurzfristigen Erfolg. Hier noch einige Blogposts: von Gigaom von mappingtheweb (bereits im Juli [...]

By: Is Kleiner Perkins’s iFund a Good Idea? « Creative Capital

Is Kleiner Perkins’s iFund a Good Idea? « Creative Capital — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 05:01:49 +0000

[...] In September, marquee firms The Founders Fund and Accel Partners (an investor in Facebook itself) launched a $10 million fund for Facebook applications called [...]

By: Telephony 2.0 » Blog Archive » Open APIs vs Open User Data, Or What Really Matters at MySpace and Facebook

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:01:00 +0000

[...] within the social network, Facebook seemed to have found a a bit of gold. With a built-in audience, developers flocked to the platform. Users loved the new apps, especially how nicely they were integrated with the platform. And [...]

By: Facebook ‘Grants’ Devotees a Disappointment « GigaOM

Facebook ‘Grants’ Devotees a Disappointment « GigaOM — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:30:15 +0000

[...] The fbFund was unveiled at the TechCrunch 40 conference last month, and as part of the announcement, Facebook backers Accel Partners and Founders’ Fund earmarked $10 million in new funds to give out to app developers as “grants” of between $25,000 and $250,000 each. “It has become clear that we will receive proposals which contain similar or even identical ideas. As a result, and in order to protect other developers and us from claims that we or anyone else copied material without the creator’s permission, unless we agree otherwise in writing, we can’t promise that any materials or information you submit here will be kept confidential, or specifically that we or others might not develop similar or identical products or services. To make sure that everyone understands the conditions of submitting a grant application, we will not review any materials you have sent via email, and any materials you may have sent have been deleted.” [...]

By: VentureWoods » Facebook End Game - India Venture Capital and Startup Blog

VentureWoods » Facebook End Game - India Venture Capital and Startup Blog — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 04:34:21 +0000

[...] application developers , Not doing a revenue split deal with Application developers and finally Facebook Fund are nothing short of a Masterstroke [...]

By: eConectados » Enlaces varios 26.09.07

eConectados » Enlaces varios 26.09.07 — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:37:08 +0000

[...] Facebook crece sin parar, cuando se habla que puede “valer” 10.000 millones de dólares; los fundadores premiarán con 10 millones a las mejores aplicaciones en Facebook. [...]

By: Don Jones

Don Jones — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 04:35:55 +0000

Yahoo’s internal build vs. buy calculation hinges on $10 million. Maybe if Fb/VC figured they could invest in 50 ideas and get one worth acquiring, they’d be ahead of the game.

By: Web Community Forum » Blog Archive » Facebook will fund your app - up to 250k

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:23:39 +0000

[...] they proved me right by putting some money behind it. According to several sites, Mark Zuckerberg announced at TechCrunch40 that the Facebook Founders and Accel Partners have [...]

By: Muthu Ramadoss

Muthu Ramadoss — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:29:39 +0000

Thanks for the info. I’ve now mailed my Facebook app idea after seeing this post. Waiting with fingers crossed for the funding to arrive ;)