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How Oprah helped a startup CEO take Yahoo for $300 million

In its April 2008 issue, Entrepreneur caught the immodest-to-a-fault Gurbaksh Chahal in a self-promoting mood — not hard to do — when it asked him how he sold ad-targeting startup BlueLithium to Yahoo for $300 million. "G" — as Chalal calls himself — responded with a tale from the life of Oprah: More »

12:40 PM on Mon Apr 21 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
5,319 views, 9 comments

self-demotion

Andrew Baron accelerates Twitter's descent into spam platform

Twitter has won kudos for being relatively resistant to spam. That may change. Rocketboom founder Andrew Baron, not pleased with the level of interaction his account has generated, has put it up for sale on eBay.
It would be silly to just delete this account I have here, especially if there is someone out there that had like interests and had something to say or wanted to get involved in some relevant conversations.
By "something to say," we assume Baron means "something to sell" — after all, why else would someone up the current bid of $1,525? In order to reach Baron's 1,635 followers with breakfast updates and cat photos? More »

2:00 PM on Mon Apr 14 2008
By Jackson West
533 views, 3 comments

Latest by dshah: What kind of crazy person would bid this kind of money for a Twitter account? What nefarious objective might they have? Who would stoop to such levels? Oh wait, that would be me (the current high bidder). All part of my master more »