{"id":47,"date":"2005-01-25T22:55:41","date_gmt":"2005-01-26T04:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/epinions-founders-sue-benchmark-august-et-al\/"},"modified":"2005-01-25T22:55:41","modified_gmt":"2005-01-26T04:55:41","slug":"epinions-founders-sue-benchmark-august-et-al","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/epinions-founders-sue-benchmark-august-et-al\/","title":{"rendered":"Epinions founders sue Benchmark, August et al."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SiliconBeat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siliconbeat.com\/entries\/2005\/01\/25\/epinions_founders_sue_benchmark_august_et_al.html\">reports<\/a>.<br \/>\nEpinions.com was a high-flying startup with prominent backers like Benchmark, August, etc.  I also remember listening to Nirav and Naval Ravikant at numerous occassions at TiE, SIPA, etc.  The three co-founders (including RV Guha) left almost $18 million in stock options of @Home, Yahoo, and AOL to start epinions.com and took the company to funding stage in record 12 weeks from the idea (even before a single line of code was written!).<br \/>\nFound this on Google &#8212;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.siliconindia.com\/si100\/nirav.asp\">Everyone has an opinion, how do you get paid for it.<\/a> Well, something to reflect upon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SiliconBeat reports. Epinions.com was a high-flying startup with prominent backers like Benchmark, August, etc. I also remember listening to Nirav and Naval Ravikant at numerous occassions at TiE, SIPA, etc. The three co-founders (including RV Guha) left almost $18 million in stock options of @Home, Yahoo, and AOL to start epinions.com and took the company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}