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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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Top Ten Signs That Your Startup is Doomed

The title says it all. Cool list of 10 red signs to look for to check if you are on track. more...
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Google co-founder Page 'to marry'

Google co-founder Larry Page is finally getting married to Lucy Southworth, his girlfriend for a year. Marriage is rumored to take place at Necker Island in the Birtish Virgin Islands. The other Google 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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Start-Ups Prepare for Wireless Auction

Competing against the like of giants Verizon and AT&T, start-ups are bracing themselves for a fight by bidding at the next year's auction of the 700MHz wireless spectrum. These include Google (eh?), Frontline 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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Gigle Semiconductor gets $20M

Yet another broadband networking chip company Gigle has secured another round of funding. Glasgow-based Scottish Equity Partners, and existing investors Accel Partners and Pond Venture Partners, which more...
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Can Firebrand Make Commercials Hot?

FireBrand is taking one end of the spectrum and playing with something that sounds foolish - use the commercials as the the content and have nothing else. Would this fly? How long would you keep watching more...
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Widgets make a big splash

Garageband has burned through $17 Million and is now called iLike. It is now seeing some light at the end of this tunnel with MySpace and Facebook opening up and allowing a flood of widgets to be released more...
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Firelake Capital Management raising $100M for cleantech investment

Cleantech is getting another shot in the arm with Firelake Capital Management starting the Strategic Technology Fund II dedicated to fostering the Cleantech sector. Based in Palo Alto, this company has more...
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