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How to Optimize the Founder’s Mind

Carleen Hawn writes about what startup founders need to do to optimize their brain. From visionaries like Steve Jobs to Sequoia VC Moritz, all read wide variety of books to sharpen their brains. more...
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The Dreaded Lunch Invite From Your Venture Capitalist

Most of startup founders are fired in the very first year as founder CEO's and are typically replaced by a VC selected CEO. This is typically done by adding another member to the board, and then voting more...
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Startups Abandon Moore’s Law

Stacey Higginbotham looks at the space of semiconductors startups which have abandoned the Moore's Law in favor of an easier and more viable route. Drew Lanza, a general partner at Morgenthaler Ventures, more...
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Meebo Turns Chat Rooms Into A Web Service to monetize

Online IM and chat room specialist Meebo is now releasing APIs that will allow automatic inclusion of chat facility in their websites. The feature called Meebo Rooms that will allow Websites to embed more...
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VC firms invest US $540 Million in Indian startups

Venture capitalists invested $543 million in 98 Indian deals during 2007, according to Venture Intelligence, an Indian-based VC and private equity tracking firm, found that the 2007 investment total was more...
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Advice for startups - Think small

Tamara goes through a list of hints and tips for entrepreneurs starting out their business to think small and to avoid the pitfalls of the 'big box fantasy'. She includes tips like using the eBay and more...
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Efficient light company Luxim, raises $21M more

Four year old Sunnyvale company Luxim boasts that it has the most efficient light sources in the world has raised another round of funding of $21 Million from leading Silicon Valley venture firm Sequoia more...
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See This Drag and Drop Widget Maker

Marshall Kirkpatrick raves about his favourite from DEMO, which is from Sprout and the product is a drag-and-drop Flash authoring tool built on Adobe's Flex. SproutBuilder lets you build very sophisticated, more...
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Ex-E*TRADE Chief Goes Social With MOLI

Christos Cotsakos, who founded startup MOLI in 2003, has had plenty of time to refine the company’s business model to ensure it might be one of the key social networking sites, offers some really compelling more...
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Startup Enphase Energy Raises $6.5M for Solar

Two-year-old, Petaluma, Calif.-based startup Enphase Energy, announced on Tuesday that it has raised $6.5 million in a Series B funding led by Third Point Ventures. It is a management system that includes more...
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