How to get funding for your Facebook idea
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Blog: Bay Partners is launching a special program for Facebook entrepreneurs.
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To justify its $15 billion valuation, Facebook has its work cut out for it. Step 1: Try to figure out how to make money from its 50 million users. A lot hangs on a new ad network, expected Nov. 6.
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A blog reports that a trio of German brothers have invested in Facebook through their firm, the European Founders Fund. No more details are available at the moment.
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There was a dream that was web 2.0...sob Comment Silicon Valley's onanistic elements have been in vinegar-stroke mode for an age over the tussle between Google and Microsoft to invest in $15bn profit-lite social networking phenomenon Facebook.â¦
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By JAMES COATES, CHICAGO TRIBUNE  Q. I do some fund-raising for a small arts organization, and many corporations are going to online applications, which so far I have been able to sort out.
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Social networks have made fortunes setting up Web sites that allow people to post profiles and trade messages. Now, the rank and file are getting the chance to make some cash from their contacts.
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Want to buy into going-public mania? Here's a simple option.
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If you build it -- and it's cool -- they will come. The business model to support it comes later. That's the new economics of the free lunch: Giving away a product or service builds the customer attention and loyalty that rack up earnings.
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Gullible time-rich polyglot? Facebook wants you! Facebook is headed for a problem. In the wacky innovation-lite and revenue-poor world of web 2.0, you have to be able to show your investors and the hordes of "I want to believe" journalists some sort of growth.â¦
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Wallop, a startup spun out of Microsoft Corp.'s research lab, is launching the test version of an online social networking site with the premise that people will want to pay extra to look good.
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In How to sponsor an open source project?, Dave Winer says, I want the OPML Editor to run on Linux... and floats the idea of a bounty for the job.  He's taking comments here. Guidance: I'm looking for ideas, established practices, do's and don'ts for sponsoring an open source project, Dave says.
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Here's a novel way to be a philanthropist.
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Looking to make a smart start? Consider these ideas.
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Social networking site Facebook has just opened up its doors to the web's million-plus web application programmers. At a San Francisco launch event Thursday, the company debuted its new application framework that lets outside developers write programs to run on Facebook's website.
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Facebook Inc. is offering to pay up to $250,000 to software developers who create applications that help make its rapidly growing online social network an even more compelling Internet hangout.
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With funds as with stocks, look for inside help.
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Yahoo has been trying to buy Facebook for a good while now, with the most recent rumored amount being for $1.62 billion. TechCrunch has obtained documents on Yahoo&#8217;s valuation of Facebook, and expected advertising revenue growth over the next 10 years. From TechCrunch: Leaked documents in our possession state that an early offer was $37.5 million for [...]