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Digital Railroad runs outta track

In a blow to DN Capital, stock photography startup Digital Railroad reduced its staff and was “aggressively pursuing additional financing and/or a strategic partner” but last week closed all operations. more...
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Gnip Raises $3.5 Million in Series B

Boulder, Colorado based startup Gnip has raised $3.5 Million in Series B funding from Foundry Group, First Round Capital and SoftTech VC. Gnip makes it easy for companies such as Twitter to put out large more...
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LinkedIn Opens Applications Platform with Google, Amazon

Applications from Google, Amazon, Six Apart, WordPress, Box.net, Huddle, SlideShare and TripIt, are now usable on LinkedIn. more...
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Why should you Start a Startup in a Bad Economy

Paul Graham hammers home a vital point - why one should start your own venture in a bad economy - providing compelling reasons and history lessons to prove his point. The economy has some effect, certainly, more...
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The easiest website creation tool ever made

Zimplit.org has released Zimplit, an Open Source web-based content management system (CMS) that drastically changes the way people create and manage their websites. Unlike other CMS applications that require more...
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Why Ringside Networks Failed

Om Malik dives into the story of why Ringside Networks failed -- it was trying to build an open social platform for enterprises, raised an undisclosed amount of VC money from Matrix Partners, almost got more...
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Ukrainian Startup MP3Count To Sell Music For Pennies

Michael Arrington follows the story of Ukrainian startup MP3Count, which gives each user an affiliate link and 10% of the funds charged by any users that sign up for the service via the link is added to more...
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Ligand Buying Pharmacopeia for about $70 Million

San Diego, CA based pharma company Ligand is buying Pharmacopeia for about $70 Million in a deal that involves $55 million in stock, plus $15 million tied to the DARA program, Pharmacopeia's lead internal more...
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Why social browsing as a startup idea needs to go away

Duncan Riley explores the idea of people wanting to surf the web socially - that is, together. The focus is on the sharing and a number of startups offer this kind of facility but Duncan argues that it more...
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Mayfield Ventures collects $395 Million

A dot-com juggernaut Venture Capital company Mayfield Ventures has an accumulated fund of $395 Million to spend investing in startups. Even the departure of one of its biggest stars - Kevin Fong does more...
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