{"id":563,"date":"2006-10-05T10:28:04","date_gmt":"2006-10-05T14:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2006\/10\/05\/b5media-gets-some-vc-love\/"},"modified":"2006-10-05T10:28:04","modified_gmt":"2006-10-05T14:28:04","slug":"b5media-gets-some-vc-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2006\/10\/05\/b5media-gets-some-vc-love\/","title":{"rendered":"b5media gets some VC love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congrats to Jeremy Wright and the rest of the gang over at the blog network b5media, including Duncan Riley and a host of others. Rick Segal <a href=\"http:\/\/ricksegal.typepad.com\/pmv\/2006\/10\/our_b5_media_in.html\">broke the news<\/a> earlier today that he and J.L. Albright co-led an investment in the company with Brightspark, which is Delrina co-founder Mark Skapinker&#8217;s shop. In response to some questions from interested onlookers, Rick &#8212; ever the iconoclast &#8212; even announced how much the two had invested: $2-million U.S. in total. As he put it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lots and lots of people are going to go, yeah right, bunch of VC lemmings chasing flavor of the month, pissing away gobs of cash on another me too blogger pile. In the words of Seth Godin, I can only respond; so?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In an interview with the Blogging Times, Duncan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebloggingtimes.com\/content\/index.php\/2006\/10\/04\/b5media-gets-2-million-funding-from-brightspark-ventures\/\">discussed<\/a> what the team plan to use the money for, which appears to include a <a href=\"http:\/\/duncanriley.com\/2006\/10\/05\/hat-changing-a-new-day-and-a-new-job-title\/\">salary<\/a> for Mr. Riley, among other things (b5 also plans to <a href=\"http:\/\/duncanriley.com\/2006\/10\/05\/slacker-manager-joining-b5media\/\">spend<\/a> some of the money compensating its bloggers). More on the deal from Problogger and b5media partner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.problogger.net\/archives\/2006\/10\/05\/b5media-takes-funding\/\">Darren Rowse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Phil Sim of Squash <a href=\"http:\/\/squash.wordpress.com\/2006\/10\/05\/blog-networks-worth-the-money\/\">isn&#8217;t convinced<\/a> that blog networks really make sense as a business, or as an investment. And Nick Douglas at Valleywag heads straight for the jugular, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.valleywag.com\/tech\/b5media\/b5media-doesnt-deserve-2-million-205524.php\">as usual<\/a>, although coming from someone at another blog network he might be protesting just a wee bit too much, methinks. Plus the capitalization thing is totally offside  \ud83d\ude42 Shel Israel has some thoughts <a href=\"http:\/\/redcouch.typepad.com\/weblog\/2006\/10\/why_i_like_b5me.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congrats to Jeremy Wright and the rest of the gang over at the blog network b5media, including Duncan Riley and a host of others. Rick Segal broke the news earlier today that he and J.L. Albright co-led an investment in the company with Brightspark, which is Delrina co-founder Mark Skapinker&#8217;s shop. In response to some &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2006\/10\/05\/b5media-gets-some-vc-love\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;b5media gets some VC love&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}