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Khosla backs Four Lesser-Known Green Car Companies

Former Kliener Perkins honcho Vinod Khosla is revving up his Khosla Ventures investments into batteries, alternate energy sources and well, four less known green car companies. See if you know these names more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Clean Tech  |  

Russian Odnoklassniki.ru Set To Top $30 Million In Revenue

How would you feel if more than 100,000 new members were joining your network every day? That is what is happening to Odnoklassniki.ru (literally means "Classmates") Yakov of Quintura is saying that Odnoklassn more...
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TheStreet.com invests in Geezeo

The online money management tool Geezeo has given away 13% of its ownership to TheStreet.com with an option to buy it out completely at a later stage if TheStreet.com thinks so. With its "Educated Financial more...
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Changing Startup Culture: Ning, Twitter Viral VC Ventures

Donna Bogatin writes that of the Ning assumption that visions of fast-growing, highly scalable, multi-billion dollar viral (not so serendipitous) hits must be highly financed if the end-game of a lucrative more...
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Startup RightScale Takes $4.5M for the Cloud

Benchmark Capital has invested a neat $4.5 M into the Santa Barbara based startup RightScale which focuses on bringing cloud computing into the enterprise world. CEO Michael Crandell thinks that RightScale more...
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Apple Buys Chip Designer P A Semi

A boutique microprocessor chip design company with about 150 people was bought by Apple for about $278 Million in cash with the plans of this startup P.A.Semi to design the new chips that Apple needs in more...
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Osteologix completes $5.3 Million in private placement financing

San Francisco based Osteologix has completed a round of private placement financing of the amount of $5.3 Million. It sold 4,030,304 shares of its common stock at $1.32 per share, and warrants to purchase more...
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Slideshare: A VC looks at it

Fred Wilson, a VC who blogs has given his inputs and shared his experience with the startup Slideshare which converts your Powerpoint presentation into Flash, but seems to take a really long time to do more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Online Apps and Widgets  |  

Agassi's new startup: GPS, Cell-phone Plans and Speedy Battery Exchange

Shai Agassi the ex-number two at SAP is on a roll with his Project Better Place project which is very well funded and plans to build a complete infrastructure to support clean technologies through your more...
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Guess the 9 People You Meet at Y Combinator

Larry Chiang, the founder of duck9 writes about the 9 different types of people you will meet at Y Combinator and what you can really learn from each of them. It includes our favorite: DDSS stands for more...
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