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Ustream.TV Takes $11.1 Million Series A

14 points by abstractbill 19y ago

justin 19y ago
Oh wow!
- gibsonf1 19y ago
  How would you compare the market their targeting with yours?
wave 19y ago
What does a Series A funding exactly mean? Is it the first funding after a seed money?
- jsjenkins168 19y ago
  Its the first major round of financing from a Venture Capitalist. Typically, it is after seed money, but you could go straight to a Series A without prior investments. Subsequent VC rounds count down the alphabet: Series B, Series C, etc..
  - pg 19y ago
    Roughly, yes, but sometimes VCs do smaller seed deals that don't count as series As. Though there's no precise definition, a series A round steps up things up a level in seriousness. It's usually quite a large amount of money (at least $500k, usually millions); the paperwork is a huge binder instead of a few sheets of paper stapled together; the terms are fairly draconian; and the investors get at least one and possibly two board seats.
theoneill 19y ago
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/justin.tv?site0=ustream.tv&site1=justin.tv&y=r&z=3&h=300&w=610&u%5B%5D=ustream.tv&u%5B%5D=justin.tv&x=2008-04-10T19%3A40%3A59.000Z&check=www.alexa.com&signature=k3f5irW0F%2FEMx6vZ7uN7yU%2FuZ7c%3D&range=3m&size=Medium http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/justin.tv?...
- wumi 19y ago
  no offense, but that's not exactly the most accurate benchmark
  - theoneill 19y ago
    Alexa's often wrong on an absolute scale, but why would it be inaccurate for comparing the relative traffic of two companies in the same business?
    - emmett 19y ago
      Because it's completely and totally wrong. I work for Justin.tv, so we have our own traffic graphs. And we also have ustream's traffic graphs, because they use QuantCast. And neither of our charts have anything to do with what Alexa says. They're not even wrong in the same ways. Alexa is only correct within an order of magnitude, at best. On the other hand, since I have the actual traffic graphs, I can say with confidence we're much bigger than ustream is. So Alexa is accidentally right.

14 points by abstractbill 19y ago

justin 19y ago

Oh wow!

gibsonf1 19y ago
How would you compare the market their targeting with yours?

wave 19y ago

What does a Series A funding exactly mean? Is it the first funding after a seed money?

jsjenkins168 19y ago
Its the first major round of financing from a Venture Capitalist. Typically, it is after seed money, but you could go straight to a Series A without prior investments. Subsequent VC rounds count down the alphabet: Series B, Series C, etc..
- pg 19y ago
  Roughly, yes, but sometimes VCs do smaller seed deals that don't count as series As. Though there's no precise definition, a series A round steps up things up a level in seriousness. It's usually quite a large amount of money (at least $500k, usually millions); the paperwork is a huge binder instead of a few sheets of paper stapled together; the terms are fairly draconian; and the investors get at least one and possibly two board seats.

theoneill 19y ago

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/justin.tv?site0=ustream.tv&site1=justin.tv&y=r&z=3&h=300&w=610&u%5B%5D=ustream.tv&u%5B%5D=justin.tv&x=2008-04-10T19%3A40%3A59.000Z&check=www.alexa.com&signature=k3f5irW0F%2FEMx6vZ7uN7yU%2FuZ7c%3D&range=3m&size=Medium http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/justin.tv?...

wumi 19y ago
no offense, but that's not exactly the most accurate benchmark
- theoneill 19y ago
  Alexa's often wrong on an absolute scale, but why would it be inaccurate for comparing the relative traffic of two companies in the same business?
  - emmett 19y ago
    Because it's completely and totally wrong. I work for Justin.tv, so we have our own traffic graphs. And we also have ustream's traffic graphs, because they use QuantCast. And neither of our charts have anything to do with what Alexa says. They're not even wrong in the same ways. Alexa is only correct within an order of magnitude, at best. On the other hand, since I have the actual traffic graphs, I can say with confidence we're much bigger than ustream is. So Alexa is accidentally right.