Comments on: Meet The Fundinistas http://gigaom.com/2007/09/17/fundinistas/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:01:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Former Fox Interactive Execs’ 5to1 Raising More Funding http://gigaom.com/2007/09/17/fundinistas/#comment-180412 Fri, 28 May 2010 00:48:13 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/17/fundinistas/#comment-180412 [...] Former Fox Interactive chief strategy officer Jim Heckman is CEO of 5to1, while Levinsohn, who is a managing partner at Fuse, is a co-founder and co-chairman. The two-year-old company had previously raised $6.3 million from Fuse Capital and Prism VentureWorks in multiple bits and pieces across the last couple years. (Om likes to call startups with venture capital habits fundinistas.) [...]

]]> By: Shazam Raises Mo Money From iFund http://gigaom.com/2007/09/17/fundinistas/#comment-180411 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:22:12 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/17/fundinistas/#comment-180411 [...] and convince them to keep paying Shazam — a decent but limited revenue stream. Or become a fundinista — you know, those companies that constantly raise money to stay in business to, in turn, [...]

]]> By: New Fundinistas: Glam Media and Revolution Money http://gigaom.com/2007/09/17/fundinistas/#comment-180410 Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:11:55 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/17/fundinistas/#comment-180410 [...] Glam has raised a total of $124.2 million in five rounds of funding, thus qualifying it as a “fundinista.” In case you’ve forgotten, fundinistas are those companies relentlessly raising [...]

]]> By: HipMojo.com » Why Salespeople Make Bad Fundraisers http://gigaom.com/2007/09/17/fundinistas/#comment-180409 Thu, 02 Apr 2009 03:40:46 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/17/fundinistas/#comment-180409 [...] it is, it’s pretty clear that fundinistas are good at spotting suckers who are willing to fund ideas that, let’s face it, have no [...]

]]> By: Fundinista Obopay Gets Another $70 Million http://gigaom.com/2007/09/17/fundinistas/#comment-180408 Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:10:52 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/17/fundinistas/#comment-180408 [...] | Wednesday, March 25, 2009 | 6:10 AM PT | 0 comments Two years ago I came up with the term, fundinista – a startup that is raising venture capital relentlessly. Add mobile payments company, Obopay, which apparently has raised another $70 million including [...]

]]> By: Startup_Newbie http://gigaom.com/2007/09/17/fundinistas/#comment-180407 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 22:19:48 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/17/fundinistas/#comment-180407 Yes, can someone please comment? Is this a bad thing if companies get too much money/too many rounds? How much is too much? $30MM? $50MM? Thinking about joining a start-up that has over $30MM in funding – can’t figure out if this is good or bad . . . All thoughts appreciated!

]]> By: Zillow Gets Mo Money « GigaOM http://gigaom.com/2007/09/17/fundinistas/#comment-180406 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 06:40:26 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/17/fundinistas/#comment-180406 [...] September 19, 2007 at 11:40 PM PT | No comments Earlier this week we were joking about Fundinistas or companies that the ones who raise venture capital relentlessly. One of them happened to be [...]

]]> By: francinehardaway http://gigaom.com/2007/09/17/fundinistas/#comment-180405 Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:43:41 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/17/fundinistas/#comment-180405 So these are companies who don’t have a business model? So then will they get shut down by those same VCs after a while?

]]> By: Business Books http://gigaom.com/2007/09/17/fundinistas/#comment-180404 Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:33:20 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/17/fundinistas/#comment-180404 Don’t forget about Jobster, Seattle-based http://www.jobster.com, they already raised over $50 million from Trinity Capital, etc.

]]> By: Eric http://gigaom.com/2007/09/17/fundinistas/#comment-180403 Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:33:09 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/17/fundinistas/#comment-180403 Veoh, SpotRunner, and GridPoint are all over $50m in funding to date.

]]> By: Ron http://gigaom.com/2007/09/17/fundinistas/#comment-180402 Mon, 17 Sep 2007 17:31:40 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/17/fundinistas/#comment-180402 Do you mean KnowNow? I think that they had constant problems with people mistaking their name for “KnowHow”…

]]> By: Om Malik http://gigaom.com/2007/09/17/fundinistas/#comment-180401 Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:47:18 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/17/fundinistas/#comment-180401 good catch sandeep. thanks

]]> By: Om Malik http://gigaom.com/2007/09/17/fundinistas/#comment-180400 Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:46:58 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/17/fundinistas/#comment-180400 Luis,

That’s waht the dictionary says, but in the spirit of having too much fun, i went with fashionista, ;-)

]]> By: luis http://gigaom.com/2007/09/17/fundinistas/#comment-180399 Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:41:58 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/17/fundinistas/#comment-180399 Hey Om, FYI “ista” derives from Sandinista. This term comes from what the Sandinistas termed the anti-imperialist struggle of Augusto César Sandino during the thirties…..

]]> By: Om Malik http://gigaom.com/2007/09/17/fundinistas/#comment-180398 Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:31:13 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/17/fundinistas/#comment-180398 Video Egg got an investment from WPP but it is not clear if it was a round or just an extension of a previous round. hence 3.5. will update after I get a clear picture

]]> By: Online Market research company http://gigaom.com/2007/09/17/fundinistas/#comment-180397 Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:36:27 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/17/fundinistas/#comment-180397 what about face-book — i thinks that is largely relying on venture capitalist money ?

]]>