The May Report: 9/28/2010: Fieldglass gets more than $200MM from Madison Dearborn!; AOL buys TechCrunch for undisclosed sum; Steve Levitt wows the LES conference; Great turnout and energy at midVenturesLAUNCH’s first day; Dave Pearah has bolted Allscripts and a TMR scoop coming from Ron connectiing the dots: He is going to Emmi Solutions as CTO; Ed Domain talking to Syncubator about funding

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Scoop section:

– Fieldglass reportedly gets more than $200MM from Madison Dearborn
– AOL buys TechCrunch for an undisclosed sum
– G2 launch- party planning in progress
– Melanie Adcock on playing nice in the sandbox
– Ron had it somewhat wrong: That invite only private party Monday night at the offices of the ITA from 6pm to 8pm tied to midVenturesLAUNCH was actually open to anyone — if you wanted to cough up $375.00 for the two hour party!
– Briefly noted, by Ron May
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The Scoop section:
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Fieldglass reportedly gets more than $200MM from Madison Dearborn

Fieldglass Inc., a Chicago-based provider of SaaS vendor management
systems, has raised an “substantial investment” from Madison Dearborn
Partners. The deal values Fieldglass at more than $200 million
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AOL buys TechCrunch for an undisclosed sum

money.cnn.com/2010/09/28/technology/aol_techcrunch/

AOL buys TechCrunch
By Stacy Cowley, tech editorSeptember 28, 2010: 1:00 PM ET

SAN FRANCISCO (CNNMoney.com) — TechCrunch said Tuesday it has agreed to be acquired by AOL, a deal that came together quickly after rumors of the negotiations leaked.

“This wasn’t supposed to happen today — this was supposed to happen later,” TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington said from the stage at TechCrunch’s Disrupt conference. “So we had to rush through this.”

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. AOL CEO Tim Armstrong joined Arrington onstage to sign the acquisition papers in front of the conference audience. Arrington polled the crowd on whether or not he should sign. “Absolutely not!” beat “yay” by about a 60/40 split.

Arrington signed anyway.

TechCrunch, which launched in 2005 and quickly became one of Silicon Valley’s most influential news outlets, operates a network of tech-focused blogs. Audience traffic tracker Compete.com estimates the TechCrunch network generates more than 2 million visitors each month.

AOL (AOL) already has a foot in the tech blog world with Engadget, the popular hardware enthusiast site it picked up in its 2005 purchase of blog network Weblogs Inc.

While many Weblogs sites folded in the wake of that deal, the survivors include some high-profile successes like TVSquad, Autoblog and The Unofficial Apple Weblog.

These blogs help anchor a fast-growing AOL blog network whose marquee sites include DailyFinance, WalletPop, Luxist and SlashFood. (DailyFinance and WalletPop are CNNMoney.com partners.)
0:00 /3:25AOL Chief: Display ads not dead

AOL’s highest profile — and most expensive — initiative is Patch, a hyperlocal blog network that currently has more than 100 sites chronicling communities across the U.S. AOL says it is investing $50 million to rapidly expand Patch, which aims to cover 500 places by early 2011.

Like Yahoo, AOL is trying to develop a vast content reservoir while walking the fine line between mass and class. Its Seed system for buying and distributing content mimics the model eHow creator Demand Media popularized: Pay freelancers rock-bottom rates to churn out a flood of dashed-off content optimized to rank highly in search engines. Demand filed for an IPO last month.

But AOL and Yahoo (YHOO, Fortune 500) — which in May acquired Demand rival Associated Content — have recently made moves aimed at boosting their content quality. Each has poached star journalists from outlets such as the New York Times, Washington Post, BusinessWeek and Politico to build sites focused on breaking news and investigative reporting. To top of page
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G2 launch- party planning in progress

Subject: FW: G2 launch- party planning in progress
Date: 9/28/2010 2:15:38 A.M. Central Daylight Time
From: melanie_adcock@msn.com
To: ronaldmay@aol.com

Would any readers of The May Report like to help out Todor and Uki with the party they are planning for the G2 Launch? Please get a hold of them at their contact info below. Very energetic active people to get to know who bring positive energy to the tech and mobile community. The May Report posts so many event announcements- it’s nice to see part of the planning process below and to go a step further and invite you to become a part of what’s going on. I hope if you have free time, would like to learn more about the mobile industry or are out of work you will consider dropping them a line to volunteer and join the excitement. We’ll post their official event announcement as soon as they iron out details, and I will plan to attend. Their Droid X Release party a few months ago was really fun, and I have no doubt this one will be, too. You heard about it here first at The May Report. -Melanie

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From: ukidlucas@gmail.com
To: melanie_adcock@msn.com
Subject: Fwd: G2 launch
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 09:51:19 -0500

Begin forwarded message:

From: Uki Dominque Lucas
Date: September 27, 2010 9:49:54 AM CDT
To: Todor Krecu
Cc: Melanie A Adcock , chris@syncubator.com
Subject: Re: G2 launch

Hi Todor,

Sounds interesting, let’s make it in Syncubator if Chris allows for that! Or Google offices.

I will reach out to Google people once we all have a go!

What about media coverage?

respectfully,

Uki Dominque Lucas
Android Architect @ Sears Holdings Corporation
organizer @ ChicagoAndroid.com

Mobile: +1 (650) 815-6603
Skype: UkiDLucas
calendar: UkiDLucas@gmail.com

Fb: www.facebook.com/ukidlucas
In: www.linkedin.com/in/ukidlucas
cv: homepage.mac.com/ukidlucas/cv/uki_dominque_lucas.pdf

On Sep 27, 2010, at 7:22 AM, Todor Krecu wrote:

Hi Uki,

How are you?

The G2 should start shipping soon to arrive by Oct 6 for people that pre-ordered. Since the G1 started all this would you be interested in having a launch party for the G2?

I am waiting to hear from T-Mobile if they are interested.

Todor
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Melanie Adcock on playing nice in the sandbox

Subject: Ron, you might be interested in looking into this…
Date: 9/27/2010 2:11:44 P.M. Central Daylight Time
From: melanie_adcock@msn.com
To: ronaldmay@aol.com

Ron, I’m not sure if this is worth your time or not but since you said you welcome the competition with Ed Domain here is an interesting post on his website about a story he took down. Personally, I am not a fan of competition. I don’t trust that people will play fair when they get competitive. In sales I’ve had positions where I was the number one inside salesperson for a year or longer. I wasn’t being competitive. I was just trying to do high quality work and minding my own business. Everyone else tried to be competitive with me to the tune of backstabbing, office politics, rumors, alienation, and uncalled for teasing. It was no fun and I didn’t understand what I’d done to deserve all that negativity when I was doing such a good job. I am good at simply working hard at something I care about. This competition stuff throws me for a loop. Back home on the farm we worked hard because that was our culture and we took pride in that. I don’t think I need competition. I like bringing people together and including everybody in community events, which is an opposite energy from competition. However, I am no less determined than a competitive person. It must be my nesting mothering attributes coming out, characteristics that are incredibly lacking in the tech world due to the lack of women in my humble opinion. If you put me out there on the football field, my inclination is to ask why the two teams can’t negotiate and compromise so they can both win. It would make terrible entertainment, but then again I never liked those bulky football helmets anyhow.

www.flyovergeeks.com/2010/09/playing-nice/

Melanie Adcock
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Ron had it somewhat wrong: That invite only private party Monday night at the offices of the ITA from 6pm to 8pm tied to midVenturesLAUNCH was actually open to anyone — if you wanted to cough up $375.00 for the two hour party!

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Briefly noted, by Ron May

* This has to be very quick since I want to get to the midVenturesLAUNCH event by 3pm for Brad Keywell’s keynote. Lundin called me to tell me that the guy from ChaCha spoke but it was mostly a sales pitch. I had dialysis this morning so I was not able to be there at 7am when the event started.

First, off, the Steve Levitt talk at LES U.S. and Canada was hilarious and great. The guy is a rock star and a stitch. More on that in a day or two. His talk covered his dad’s having been written up by GQ or Vanity Fair with the headline, “King of Farts” since his dad was a doctor who specialized in gastrointestinal gas.

Steve said that in economics, he is a bit off the beat and path of the profession as well.

Evidence in support of that is his bringing a high end call girl to talk to his class of undergrads and most of them said it was the best class they had in four years.

Levitt said that he is not a big believer in lab experiments because they miss out on the complexities of the real world.

He talked about a lab game called Dictator which showed that people are not really all that altruistic. So, one day he got an anonymous envelope in the mail at his home and it was written in pencil. Inside there was a $20 bill and the written note read that Levitt is wrong.
Much more to come.

* Lastly, the plot thickens. As soon as I saw the great space that Syncubator occupies at 322 S. Green Street, I said to myself that I would love to have an office there — or at least the use of a conference room a couple of days a week. I talked to one of the Syncubator managers and founders, Mike Rhodes, about it and he said we should sit down and talk.

How is this for an odd coincidence? It turns out that Ed Domain who claims he is being chased by various people who want to fund him is being chased, he says, by the folks at Syncubator!

Very interesting.

I have also heard that Ed wrote an article that ruffled some feathers so he was asked to take it down from the website.

If Ed ends up in the Syncubator, he can be their PR arm and I can continue to do what I have always done — try to get the facts and not sugar coat them.
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