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  1. KnowMore tries to find the good stuff from your Twitter, Facebook feeds

    Venture Beat &bull Yesterday

    New York-based Knowmore is taking a stab at the filter failure problem posed by the overwhelming amount of information flowing through social networks. It's building a dashboard that surfaces the most widely shared content from the people that you actually… Full Story »

  2. Seattle's Sole DEMO Participant: DigitalScirocco

    Northwest Innovation &bull Mar 19, 2010

    Seattle-based DigitalScirocco, which operates an online marketplace for automatic discovery and creation of web site content for domain owners, looks to be the only area firm which will be presenting at the DEMO startup launch event in Palm Springs, California… Full Story »

  3. Thomas Meyer and Pierre-yves Mathonet - Beyond the J-Curve: Managing a Portfolio of Venture Capital And Private Equity Funds

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    In recent times, venture capital and private equity funds have become household names, but so far little has been written for the investors in such funds, the so-called limited partners. There is far more to the management of a portfolio of venture capital and private equity funds than usually perceived...Full Story »

  4. MySQL's Marten Mickos becomes CEO of hybrid cloud startup Eucalyptus Systems

    Venture Beat &bull Mar 19, 2010

    Marten Mickos, former chief executive of open source database company MySQL, is moving to cloud computing startup Eucalyptus Systems, where he will serve as CEO. Mickos built MySQL into what seemed like the open source world's biggest successes, with a… Full Story »


  5. Mobile analytics firm Motally hires Nielsen exec as CEO

    Venture Beat &bull Mar 19, 2010

    John Forese - pronounced for EE see - has taken over as CEO of mobile analytics firm Motally, whose monthly reports VentureBeat usually writes about. Forese was senior vice president of product management for Nielsen, a position he landed after… Full Story »

  6. Insights and Opinions: Do You Want Your Startup Bad Enough?

    Socal Tech &bull Mar 19, 2010

    Our Insights and Opinions piece this morning is from Dan Bliss, co-founder of Los Angeles-based Perfect Business, an online site focused on entrepreneurship and startups. Whether you want to start a new business or buy an existing business, you need… Full Story »

  7. Pierre-yves Mathonet and Thomas Meyer - J-Curve Exposure: Managing a Portfolio of Venture Capital and Private Equity Funds

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  8. Being Fat Is Not Healthy

    A VC &bull Mar 19, 2010

    Ben Horowitz has a post called The Case For The Fat Startup on the All Things D blog. I don't agree with Ben's take on this issue but I have enormous respect for Ben and his partner Marc Andreessen. They… Full Story »

  9. Gift card swapping startup Plastic Jungle raises $7.4M

    Venture Beat &bull Mar 18, 2010

    Plastic Jungle, a site where you can sell unwanted gift cards or buy those cards at a discount, has raised $7.4 million in a second round of funding. I actually wrote about new site with a similar idea called CardPool… Full Story »

  10. Smartling lands $4M, continues momentum for translation solutions

    Venture Beat &bull Mar 18, 2010

    It looks like competition among translation startups is heating up, with a number of companies popping up making substantial announcements in the last few months. Smartling, a startup that helps businesses to better use their websites by speaking to customers… Full Story »

  11. Launchpad LA Opens Apps For Second Class

    Socal Tech &bull Mar 18, 2010

    Launchpad LA, the business incubation and mentoring effort started by GRP's Mark Suster, said today that it has opened up applications for its second class of companies. The effort--which pulls together a number of venture capitalists and successful entrepreneurs, who… Full Story »

  12. Aspatore Books Staff - Raising Capital for Entrepreneurs: Industry Insiders on Angel Funding, Venture Capital, & Growth Money from Private Investors

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  13. GetGlue helps you find Taste Neighbors who like the same books, movies, and music

    Venture Beat &bull Mar 18, 2010

    GetGlue, the social recommendation service from startup Adaptive Blue, has been collecting data about what its users like since its launch in November. Now it's taking using that data to help those users find others who like the same things.… Full Story »

  14. General Electric To Take On First Solar

    GreenTech Media &bull Mar 18, 2010

    GE invested in PrimeStar, a cad tel start-up, in 2007 and became the majority shareholder in 2008, but it has been somewhat coy about its intentions. GE mostly said they were interested in the thin film market. The behemoth was… Full Story »

  15. Gist Buys Learn that Name

    Northwest Innovation &bull Mar 18, 2010

    Seattle-based Gist has acquired Learn that Name, a firm created out of a recent Startup Weekend in Redmond, the firm said last night. Learn that Name is an application that helps people remember professional contacts, by matching pictures with names.… Full Story »

  16. Cogi Rolls Out Audio Transcription Service

    Socal Tech &bull Mar 18, 2010

    Santa Barbara-based Cogi, a startup which provides a service to capture and transcribe business phone calls, announced today that it has rolled out a new, standalone transcription service. Cogi said its new "Cogi Transcribe" service allows businesses to upload audio… Full Story »


  17. Interview: CBS Thinks Last.fm Will Turn A Profit This Year

    Paid Content &bull Mar 18, 2010

    After its 2007 acquisition, it doesn't seem like CBS (NYSE: CBS) has been able to get the most from its $280 million Last.fm outlay. There's been no TV scrobbling, no profit, the site's key execs have left and fitting the… Full Story »

  18. Lin Hong Wong - Venture Capital Fund Management: A Comprehensive Approach to Investment Practices & the Entire Operations of a VC Firm

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  19. AOL Goes Local With $10 Million V.C. Fund (at New York Times)

    Yahoo Biz &bull Mar 18, 2010

    AOL said Wednesday that it is putting together a $10 million venture capital that will invest in start-up's whose businesses target the "local" space, as the newly liberated company continues its bet on local content, PaidContent reported. Full Story »

  20. Launching My Latest Startup

    Get Venture &bull Mar 18, 2010

    After 10 months of incubation, Davis Co is proud to announce the launch of its latest startup: Avery Skye Davis. She arrived yesterday at 9:13AM and is 6lb 2oz and 19" tall. Mother and daughter are both doing well. After… Full Story »

  21. Ben Horowitz: Screw This Lean Startup Stuff, Sometimes You Have To Spend Big To Win Big (Silicon Alley Insider)

    Yahoo Finance &bull Mar 18, 2010

    In a blog post at AllThingsD, Ben Horowitz makes the case for more of those types of "fat startups"-- startups that need to raise and then spend a lot of money to win a big market. September 1999 and grew… Full Story »

  22. Videoplaza raises $5 million for video ad-serving technology

    Venture Beat &bull Mar 18, 2010

    Videoplaza, a Swedish startup that helps publishers optimize the way they serve video ads, raised $5 million to expand across Europe. Creandum and Northzone, two leading Scandinavian venture capital firms, led the round for the company which started breaking even… Full Story »


  23. MSN China s vice president of sales to leave firm (at Reuters)

    Yahoo Biz &bull Mar 18, 2010

    Microsoft said on Thursday its vice-president of sales for its MSN China joint venture would leave the firm at the end of March to pursue his own start-up. Full Story »

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  24. SINET event draws feds and security entrepreneurs together

    Venture Beat &bull Mar 18, 2010

    The U.S. should improve its security infrastructure to deal with cyber threats, or it could wind up like the government of Estonia, brought down by hackers after a dispute with Russia. Jaak Aviksoo, the minister of defense of the Republic of Estonia, offered… Full Story »

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    Jan 3, 2010

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    Jan 3, 2010

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  6. harindermann

    Jan 3, 2010

    RT @valto: Will you go to VCs if your business is cash flow positive. Why or why not? http://ff.im/-dIQKd

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    Jan 3, 2010

    Keep it simple, because VCs are #@.&!! http://bit.ly/8flrVE

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    Jan 3, 2010

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  9. mattmay

    Dec 31, 2009

    #10yearsago I was working for an online grocery startup about to IPO. As we all know, it succeeded hugely, and I made millions and retired.

  10. NYrer

    Dec 31, 2009

    RT @alleyinsider: Silicon Valley: No Longer The Home Of The Startup IPO by @nichcarlson http://bit.ly/80tvkv

  11. SaraJChipps

    Dec 31, 2009

    My second startup has just received its second round of funding (from my first startup). I'm starting to get botox. #10yearsfromnow

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    Dec 31, 2009

    No rush: Social networkers stand pat as markets heat up: There hasn't been a U.S. initial public offering from the ... http://bit.ly/6zma10

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    Dec 31, 2009

    Mid-stage cleantech braces for bloodbath: Cleantech VC funding did well in '09, but will feel the pain of the c.. http://tinyurl.com/yehf8vk

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    Dec 30, 2009

    Congrats to @twilio and @jeffiel on the latest round of funding! http://bit.ly/5CkAbv

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    Dec 30, 2009

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    Dec 30, 2009

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    Dec 30, 2009

    $501 - $1000 http://www.designquote.net/RFQ/22933.html #graphicdesign #jobs

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    Dec 30, 2009

    @achitnis Startup: 1) Company selling new idea/product or in new market/channel. 2) New company relying on VC funding

  19. bizmike

    Dec 29, 2009

    Working away while listening to @davemcclure How to Give a VC a Hard-On http://bit.ly/8t6KCg #startup