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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...
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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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Startup CrossLoop comes out of secret-mode

Claiming more than 5000 users now, CrossLoop is a startup that has come out of its stealth mode. It allows two people to share their computer desktops, has launched an online marketplace where you can more...
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BuddyMedia raises money for new social network

Led by Softbank Capital, with participation from European Founders Fund, GreyCroft Partners, and angel investors including Ron Conway, who have put in about $6.5 Million into BuddyMedia which is gearing more...
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Software Firm SixApart Buys Social Media Agency Apperceptive

The blogging startup company SixApart - yes, the same folks who offer MovableType, Typepad, Vox is buying the New York city based social media creative agency Apperceptive so that it can move in to the more...
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Startup Etelos can take your online apps offline

Even today, it is possible in so many scenarios to be disconnected (literally) from the internet. Etelos allows you to be on a plane for instance and be able to use the online application just as if you more...
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Sunnyvale's VirtualLogix brings virtualization to mobile phones

CEO Peter Richards of VirtualLogix says that it is a technology whose time has come. Virtualization on mobile phones that is. Cisco, Texas Instruments have already invested in this Sunnyvale startup more...
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RGB Networks Gets More Funding

Hot startup (LightReading says so) RGB Networks seems to have put off its IPO plans for this year by going in for an additional round of funding (a neat $20 Million) to take the total green raked in to more...
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Hydro Green Energy Closes $2.6 Million Investment

Announcing the close of its Series A, Hydro Green Energy, Houston-based hydrokinetic river power and tidal energy technology integrator and project developer, today announced that it has closed its $2.6 more...
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