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Question is - To VC or Not to VC?

Every entrepreneur will face this pivotal question and needs to carefully evaluate raising PE/VC money as he/she thinks about scaling their ventures. The barriers to entry and capital requirement to start more...
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When and how to quit your day job to build your Startup

A thorough writeup which advices you the things to consider when quiting your day job. more...
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Advice for Startup CEOs

Randfish gives solid advice to CEO's of startups and small business in this article. He is writing based on his own experience and interactions he has with other founders and CEO's. more...
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Greenplum raises $27 Million in Series C Funding

Techcrunch is reporting that Greenplum has raised a whopping $27 million of series C funding. This comes after the acquisition of MySQL by sun for $1 billion. Yes, that is a billion with a B. The database more...
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Venture Fundings increases 10.8% in 2007, Hits $29.4 Billion

Erick at Techcrunch has a a very through writeup on Venture Funding in 2007. As per the reports from PricewaterhouseCoopers and National Venture Capital Association, venture funding went up 10.8% in 2007 more...
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Active Rain raises $ 2.75 million in funding

Mashable is reporting that Active Rain has raised $ 2.75 million in funding from HouseValues, a company that’s involved in the real estate market. So far the company was bootstrapped, but with this infusion more...
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Google Can Take the High Road on Privacy

Meanwhile Google played their hand brilliantly. They unveiled OpenSocial, taking the “open” high ground and a lot of wind out of Facebook’s sails (to mix some metaphors!). And with Facebook aligned more...
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Multiply's Big International Following

Multiply has been growing rather quietly internationally. The social media aggregator now has 7 million registered users and 10.5 million monthly unique visitors according to their internal numbers, nearly more...
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Facebook World Domination Plans - Raising More Money

Prior to taking over the world, what does the Facebook duo have in stock for us? First of all, they’re gonna get more money. Yu, Facebook’s C.F.O., said that the company is preparing to raise an additional more...
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Awesome Move by Red Hat and Amazon

Red Hat is going to start offering Red Hat Enterprise Linux on EC2. more...
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