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Mapping the Startups in Portland

Sam Churchill provides an insight into the promising startups in the Portland area: Platial, Knitmap, SocialMap, Mapdango, WeoGeo, TwitterLocal and a short sweet summary of what each one does. Thus, the more...
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Leah Culver, 25, Co-Founder of Pownce gives some answers

Pownce is one of the most closely watched startups in the Silicon Valley. One of its co-founders is a 25 year old Computer Science engineer from University of Minnesota, Leah Culver whose graduation project more...
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Start-up Pay by Touch on the brink of bankruptcy

The company raked in more than $300 million from hedge funds, venture capitalists and wealthy individuals including L.A. billionaire Ron Burkle. But five years down the road, San Francisco-based Pay by more...
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Entrepreneur and his skateboard business

45-year-old entrepreneur, Frank Davern an Orange County native, stumbled onto the unmet need for a girls' skateboard by accident. Now, his website at www.coolgirlskateboards.com, was not meant to be his more...
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Interview with Andrew Hyde of Startup-Weekend

This is an interview with Andrew Hyde who came up with this brainwave idea of organizing the Startup-Weekend in a bid to foster the ecosystem for startups. This has been a very important move to encourage more...
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Bangalore Barcamp and the Startup Event

Bangalore is heating up the event scene in India with the Bangalore Barcamp which is in the same lines as the ones here (SFO Barcamp for instance). Tons of startups are signing up for this exciting unconferenc more...
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Startup Atrenta forms Advisory Board

High profile startup Atrenta has formed its Advisory Board that include hot-shots like Robert Brayton of the University of California at Berkeley, Andrew Kahng of UC-San Diego and Anatha Chandrakasan of more...
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Why Are Founders Leaving Social Networks?

Michael Arrington brings up this question with two examples of founders or execs leaving second tier social networks - Jeanine LeFlore, Piczo’s VP of Products and Marketing and Bebo’s co-founder and more...
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Tell your startup story and win $50,000

Share your startup story with all the juicy details and it is possible that you could win $50,000 in return. Plus, a great way to share all the startup news stories in one place. Intuit is behind the more...
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Baby boomers tap into savings to fund new ventures

When it comes to funding new startups and ventures, Baby Boomers are tapping into their reserves built over the years. These give them a psychological advantage in terms of risk-taking and funding a new more...
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