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Canadian media company buys Y Combinator Startup

Communicate.com, a Canadian company that owns about 800 domain names including Perfume.com and Cricket.com, is expected to relaunch itself on Wednesday as Live Current Media, with plans to become a network more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Mergers and Acquisitions  |  

VC firm 3i quits early-stage investments

Inspite of some successes, 3i’s venture capital business has shrunk steadily since it suffered about £1bn of writedowns from the technology crash of 2000 and therefore it is closing down its worst-performing more...
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The Psychology of Entrepreneurial Bias

Marc Andreessen this time takes a long, long tour through multi part series based on Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett's long-time partner and Vice-Chairman at Berkshire Hathaway and his book about human more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Startup Lessons  |  

Peerflix closing shop

Peerflix, a slightly old startup that tried to replicate the Netflix model using peer to peer DVD swapping service by providing a paid envelope service and allowing members to charge a small fee per DVD more...
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Pixim raises more money

Pixim that makes chips for video surveillance and which has raised $21.6 million of a $23.1 million round from current investors: Mayfield Fund in Menlo Park and Tallwood Venture Capital in Palo Alto, more...
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How can I start my company and keep my day job?

So, this is a fairly common problem. Do you dive full-time into your startup or do you do it part-time, while keeping your day job to keep those bills paid and the wolves from the doors? In Silicon Valley more...
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You're Welcome to Conference 2.0

Dan Fost delves into the changing face of Conferences saying that the usual passive role that attendees play in such events is changing rapidly by the use of social media and participatory tools that allow more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Social Networking  |  

EveryScape raises money

EveryScape that is taking on Google's StreetView has raised its second round of $7 Million which was led by new investor Dace Ventures and includes existing investors Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Draper Fisher more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Online Apps and Widgets  |  

The Problem with Social Media Marketing

Joshua Porter has this post talking about Social Media Marketing which is the challenge for zillions right now - he says it’s better to think of social media tools as amplifying customer opinion rather more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Advertising  |  

Fred Wilson - Hypocritical, Wrong and Conflicted

The daggers are out. VC Fred Wilson came out with a blog post that criticized bloggers and singled out Matt Marshall of VentureBeat and Erick Schonfeld of TechCrunch for this. And now, Michael Arrington more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Web 2.0  |