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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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Evaluating a Startup Opportunity? Here are 5 Rules ...

Chris Fisher walks you through 5 rules of estimating the potential of a startup: beginning with getting the TAM right, identifying the market discontinuities, timing is everything (still), having a very more...
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ShareThis To Buy Fellow Widget Maker madKast

The TechStars Demo Day has produced the third acquisition from the event. ShareThis, which recently closed a round of $15 Million in funding is acquiring fellow widget maker madKast for an undisclosed more...
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VC Scoreboard: Cleantech shines bright

The 2007 edition of the EETimes Venture Capital Scoreboard is revealing that the $2.6 Billion of VC investment in 168 transactions shows the spotlight on the current darling of VCs: Cleantech and photovoltaics more...
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Startup Aricent Gets $60M to design Phones

Palo Alto based startup Aricent, which spun off from Flextronics and boasts of Frog Design as its component, has secured funding of $60M to design cool phones, from Bahrain-based investment fund The Family more...
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GreenVolts Gets $30 Million for Utility Project

Winner of the 2006 California Clean Tech Open, raised $10 million in Series A fund from Greenlight Energy Resources and Avista and has now raised another $30 Million in Series B funding to build large more...
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