Articles about Ben Huh

Cheezburger founder Ben Huh has a new home and new job as he joins Y Combinator’s New Cities

Ben Huh, the Seattle entrepreneur who became famous with his Cheezburger Network of comedy websites, is now San Francisco based… Read More

Cheezburger’s Ben Huh returns from world travels, says he’s leaving Seattle to explore startup ideas in San Francisco

After eight years as the founder and CEO of the Cheezburger Network, Ben Huh stepped down last July and embarked… Read More

Cat picture pioneer Ben Huh steps down as CEO of Cheezburger

It’s the final roar, or should we say meow for Ben Huh. The charismatic CEO of Seattle-based online humor site… Read More

Circa news app shuts down after failing to secure more funding

Circa News is shutting down. The news app announced today that it is on an “indefinite hiatus” after failing to… Read More

Mobile news app Circa reportedly up for sale after failing to raise more money

Circa, the app that hoped to revolutionize mobile news consumption, is making some news of its own. Both Fortune and… Read More

Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh on fears, leadership, and ‘the greatest lie that’s told to entrepreneurs’

Viral, shareable content is Ben Huh’s bread and butter. His business is predicated on the notion that when we see an… Read More

Humor site Cheezburger raises $2.7M, plans new comedy show about weed

Cheezburger has had its share of struggles over the past few years, but now investors are showing their support again… Read More

Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh invests in Honk, an on-demand towing startup

AAA has some new smartphone-enabled competition. A Los Angeles-based startup called Honk launched today, promising to bring 24/7 nationwide roadside… Read More

Here’s how Cheezburger executed a kickass kitten delivery viral marketing stunt with Uber

It’s not easy putting together a one-day viral marketing campaign in three cities that involves cute kittens, customized cupcakes and… Read More

Circa launches news app on Android, redefines how we consume breaking news on mobile

Circa, the year-old news app that wants to redefine how we consume news on our mobile devices, today launched on… Read More

Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh: “We’re a bit like Bob Ross”

SAN FRANCISCO — You’d think that the chief executive of an internet humor company would be happy to talk about… Read More

Ben Huh’s Circa news service hires Reuters social media guru as editor-in-chief

Circa, the mobile app hoping to redefine news presentation, today announced that it has hired Reuters social media editor Anthony… Read More

A mayor, CEO and bachelor forming teams to raise health awareness with EveryMove

EveryMove wants to help people get healthy and is hoping that three well-known Seattleites will help drive interest to its… Read More

On the prowl for more laughs, Cheezburger gobbles up cash

Cheezburger Network, the Seattle online comedy network behind Fail Blog, I Can Has Cheezburger, The Daily What and dozens of… Read More

Cheezburger’s Ben Huh on angel investing: It’s not for me

It’s a typical path for successful entrepreneurs — take some of the new-found riches and recycle it by bankrolling other… Read More

Ben Huh: How to create an Internet meme in 3 easy steps

(Video courtesy of Felice Lam) Ben Huh kicked up his black and white leather dress shoes and bounced onstage mimicing the… Read More

Just when you thought it couldn’t get worse: Tech execs dance Gangnam Style

How do you know when an Internet meme has run its course? Executives do stuff like this at conferences. In… Read More

Circa: A mobile app hoping to redefine news presentation

For months, Ben Huh was uncharacteristically mum about his online journalism startup. But finally today, Circa swung its curtains open… Read More

Todd Sawicki departs Cheezburger, eyes next big thing

Cheezburger’s former chief revenue officer is moving on. Todd Sawicki tells GeekWire that he’s left the Seattle-based online comedy network,… Read More

Ben Huh news startup Circa raises $750K seed funding

Cheezburger Network founder Ben Huh has been uncharacteristically quiet about Circa, his online journalism startup. Now word is out that… Read More

Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh on why we need to invest in education right now

Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh may be in the business of cracking people up. But the Seattle Internet entrepreneur also has some… Read More

Coming to Bravo: A reality TV show starring Cheezburger’s Ben Huh

“Huh?” That’s the working title of new reality TV show that Bravo announced today featuring none other than Ben Huh,… Read More

The new Cheezburger redesign: Faster, funnier and fewer trolls

Cheezburger’s rise to the top of the Internet charts has certainly been impressive to watch, leaving some investors kicking themselves… Read More

Microsoft Windows as a ‘beautiful metaphor’ and other comments of the week

The best insights, observations, comments, tweets and random zingers we heard this week. “Windows really is a beautiful metaphor for… Read More

Ben Huh’s love affair with the Internet (Or why we need to protect our greatest creation)

Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh appeared today at the In NW social media conference in Seattle, offering an impassioned plea on… Read More

SOPA is a lobotomy, Google’s cutbacks are heartless … and other fun quotes of the week

The best observations, quotes, comments and zingers we heard this week. “There’s a fundamental difference between people who want to… Read More

Facing pressure from tech giants, politicians postpone PIPA and SOPA votes

Just three days after the blackout of Wikipedia and other sites, U.S. legislators have postponed votes on the Stop Online… Read More

Watch Ben Huh debate an NBC executive over SOPA

It took an email from my mom in Ohio to realize just how big the controversy over the Stop Online… Read More

Amazon: We dislike piracy, but ‘strongly oppose’ SOPA

Amazon.com will not be blacking out its Web site tomorrow in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act as Cheezburger… Read More

Cheezburger celebrates five years of LOLs, plans January 18th blackout to protest SOPA

Who could have imagined that a Web site featuring oddly-worded captions accompanying cat photos could one day hold so much… Read More