Comments on: MySpace Answers Facebook’s fbFund With Incubator Slingshot Labs

By: The iFund Has Competition: $150 Million Blackberry Fund To Be Announced Soon

The iFund Has Competition: $150 Million Blackberry Fund To Be Announced Soon — Sun, 11 May 2008 17:06:38 +0000

[…] these days? (See also the fbFund for Facebook startups and and the MySpace incubator spinoff Slingshot Labs). What ever happened to simply building the best damn platform in the world and letting the app […]

By: Allan

Allan — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:41:14 +0000

@ Don Jones

Corporate-directed incubators have a spotty record. It’ll be very interesting to see how Slingshot will operate. If the deals done within Slingshot are heavily influenced by News Corp. or Myspace mandates, the odds are against success.

By: McFads

McFads — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:40:35 +0000

Always fascinating to see how big companies ignite innovation. Has anyone written a post or article on the different incentive schemes for the development/business/marketing teams? In essence, I’m asking a similar question as Bali.

All in all, aligning the incentives properly will most likely increase the success rate.

By: Slingshot Labs: MySpace's Tentative Future Application Incubator

Slingshot Labs: MySpace's Tentative Future Application Incubator — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:10:42 +0000

[…] Josh Berman (MySpace COO) and Colin Digiaro (Senior VP of International Corporate Development) may be the ones heading the incubator. Amit Kapur (VP of Business Development) may step up as the MySpace COO to fill in for Berman [source: TechCrunch]. […]

By: Joshua Walters

Joshua Walters — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 01:48:11 +0000

I have an urge to vote in polls, but I didnt know the difference.

Now, I feel left out.

By: Bali

Bali — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:36:32 +0000

Slingshot should be interesting

By: chrisw

chrisw — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:20:43 +0000

@ The_RealVIEW

I just checked out your web site - how does your service compare to MySpace (or any other web 2.0 site for that matter). It looks to me like your simply offer video production services and a custom Flash player. Doesn’t look very scalable to me … and certainly not ““slinger” or competitor to MySpace”.

By: Bali

Bali — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:19:48 +0000

If anyone has the “numbers,” it would be great to find out what percentage the enterpreneur will be offered for his or her sweat.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:22:54 +0000

With regard to the poll, I think the best way for corporations to create successful startups is to take the founders of previously successful startups, give them a direction and a lot of resources, and see what happens.

By: Don Jones

Don Jones — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:34:04 +0000

I wonder if there are even any success stories from corporate incubator venture capital plays?

By: MikeT

MikeT — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:20:35 +0000

may the market forces reign!

By: The_RealVIEW

The_RealVIEW — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:03:35 +0000

Slingshot should be interesting. If anyone has the “numbers,” it would be great to find out what percentage the enterpreneur will be offered for his or her sweat. Myspace is clearly in need of some new innovation. From the beginning, the product seemed to have the right features but the wrong architecture. And now with video pages… A broadband solution by RealviewTV(R) could be of use as a licensing deal, “slinger” or competitor to MySpace as seen here.

By: AppsMedia

AppsMedia — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:46:15 +0000

Very interested to see the per-deal size the fund is going to “offer” to seed the apps startups.. (in light of the popular Slide’s $500M valuation)…

By: Everett

Everett — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:28:29 +0000

Is it possible to report how many apps have been funded by FB? I’ve been reading a lot about FB getting more funding, its traffic against the other sites but how about THE APPS??? To me that’s also newsworthy.