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A Night of Hopes and Miracles with Addi and Cassi
On Saturday May 10, the “Moonlight Garden Gala - A Night of Hopes and Miracles” was held to honor four-year-olds Addi and Cassi Hempel and children from around the globe who suffer from NP-C, also known as “Childhood Alzheimer’s.” The…May 27, 2008
Here Comes the Bride
So, our fearless leader Donna Sokolsky got hitched last weekend in Long Island. She married her high school boyfriend, Billy Burke. They are two peas in a pod! Billy moved out here from New York to be with his fiancĂ©…May 21, 2008
MySpace and International Press Club Host Dinner
On Tuesday night, MySpace hosted a dinner at Frisson with the International Press Club. With press attending from publications such as the Economist, Stern Magazine, The Financial Times Deutschland, Wirtschaftswoche, Le Nouvel Observateur, Nikkei, Ubergizmo, L’Expansion, Time Magazine and Silicon…February 27, 2008
Six Spark Clients Honored as Webware 100 Finalists
CNET has just published its list of the 300 finalists for the 2008 Webware 100 Awards, and I’m happy to announce that six Spark clients, past and present, have been nominated into five of the ten Webware categories. Finalists include:…February 25, 2008
Joost and Tellme Networks win Wall Street Journal’s coveted Technology Innovation Award for 2007
I am pleased to announce that Joost (an Index Ventures portfolio company) and Tellme Networks (now a subsidiary of Microsoft) are the winners of the coveted Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Awards. Joost won in the category of Media/Broadcasting and…September 26, 2007
Movin’ on Up
The pictures are already hanging on the walls, the new conference rooms have all been named, and every day we are all a little more familiar with our new neighborhood. That’s right. Spark moved into new offices last week. After…September 25, 2007
Webby Awards 2007
When I first heard about the Webby Awards the first year it came out, I thought it was the biggest joke. Why would anyone want to vote on a website? Was there a universe of 100 people who cared? And…April 12, 2007 | Comments (1)
Spark Jumps Across The Pond
For eight years Donna has led the Spark team from the Bay Area. We started off in Los Altos (in Chris’ husband’s spare bedroom, if I’m getting the story straight) and then moved to Palo Alto and Menlo Park before…April 10, 2007


