Monthly Archives: January 2010

We Make a Living Caring About Your Company

Last week, at Ultra Light Startups‘ January Entrepreneur’s Forum Managing Director Todd Barrish of LaunchSquad’s New York office, joined Rachel Honig of G.S. Schwartz & Co, Karl Schmieder of MessagingLab and Lloyd Trufelman of Trylon SMR for a panel about “PR, Branding and Buzz.” Moderated by BizBriefs‘ John Adams, the panelists tackled strategies for startups [...]

Trekking Around With First Round

First Round Capital recently organized their first NYC Startup Trek, in part to commemorate the opening of their New York office this quarter and also explore the city’s incubator and co-working spaces. Partners from the early stage venture capital firm, which has already made investments in over a dozen NY-based companies, set out to meet with [...]

Mochi Media acquired by Shanda Games

As the Internet evolves as a platform for both casual and console-quality games, tools like those that LaunchSquad client Mochi Media provides to help analyze and monetize these games are becoming tremendously valuable. That’s why Shanda Games, China’s largest operator of multi-player online role-playing games, announced today that they will acquire Mochi. Mochi Media has been [...]