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JobFox Received $20 Million for Jobs Site

JobFox, which provides job seekers with the ability to seek for employment and be found by potential employers while maintaining control has raised $20 million from Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Menlo Ventures more...
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Monster.com Pays $61M to buy Affinity Labs

Social Networking startup Affinity Labs was just getting off the ground and had raised only $6 million from Mayfield Fund and Trinity Ventures. They are barely gaining traction with sites focused on Nursing, more...
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A Summary of the VC activity in 2008

This is an Op-Ed piece by Drew Clark, Director of Strategy and co-founder of IBM’s Venture Capital Group. He summarizes the expected levels of VC activity in 2008 on various fronts from CleanTech, Web more...
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Startup Light Blue Optics expands into US

Based in Cambridge, England, Light Blue Optics, the makers of micro projectors and which closed a $26 million Series A funding round that was led by Earlybird Venture Capital of Germany and Belgian group more...
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Startup Aims to Revive SF Free WiFi Initiative

Greg Sterling writes about Meraki, the Silicon Valley wireless startup that is aiming to solve a problem that Google and Earthlink had taken up but gave up: providing free WiFi blanket to all those wonderful more...
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Recession: So, what does it mean for your startup?

Mark MacLeod, a serial startup CFO and operator, writes in his fascinating blog about the looming recession and what it means for a startup. Using his vast experience from the startup companies as a CFO more...
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Startup Pudding Media takes first funding

Pudding Media has pulled in $8 Million in its first round of funding from Opus Capital. It is trying to create a way where the advertisements will be entirely determined by the conversation at hand, and more...
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Pitching on a Prayer & a PowerPoint

Venture Capitalist Rich Moran gives some illuminating insights into the process of fund-raising for entrepreneurs who are trying to shore up for their startups. He gives some simple practical hints and more...
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Startup ChaCha Dances with Mobile Search

Anne Zelenka describes what this startup ChaCha is planning to do: effective searching, which often involves orienteering — finding information step-by-step, and using local context at each step as a more...
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HiWired raises $9M for technical support

HiWired, which provides technical support to both business customers and individual customers has raised money again. The $9 million round was the company’s second, led by North Hill Ventures. The investors more...
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