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JSW Energy files papers for IPO

With lead managers JM Financial, Kotak Mahindra Capital and ICICI Securities, India based JSW Energy has filed for an IPO in the Indian stock market. It plans to raise over Rs 3,500 crore from the issue, more...
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An Engineer's View of Venture Capitalists

My first experience with VCs was as an engineer starting a microprocessor-design company; VCs were the gods of money. The other founders and I told the VCs what we thought we could do and how long it would more...
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Startup provides Venture Capital Wear

Josh Kopelman, Managing Director of First Round Capital shares this funny one about a company that provides speciality wear for VCs - check out their site for really funny T-shirts that say what the VCs more...
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Magnify.net Raises $1M for Video Discovery

Next Stage Capital, New York Angels, Rose Tech Ventures, Active Angel Investors, Ogden Capital, Gideon Gartner, and Chris Anderson have come together to put in $1 Million into New York based startup Magnify.net more...
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Startup Glassdoor.com Takes In $3 Million Series B

Benchmark Capital has invested $3 Million in Series B funding in Sausalito based startup Glassdoor.com. Interestingly, CEO and Founder Robert Hohman was previously the President of Hotwire.com, and the more...
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More dough on the Venture Capital scene

Dow Jones VentureSource says that there were only six IPOs and far fewer M&A deals than in any quarter last year, which paints a pretty dismal picture for the startups in any region. The economic woes more...
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Meet Startup Onzo the iPod of Cleantech

UK based startup is coming with cool designs to manage the energy of your home. Sigma Capital Group and Scottish and Southern Energy, each of whom put up £1 million and a company representative to sit more...
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Is Federated Media worth $200 Million?

Rumors are swirling around that Federated Media has raised $50 Million from Oak Hill Capital Partners which effectively has boosted the valuation of the company to $200 Million. Eric Eldon says that the more...
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Startup RightScale Takes $4.5M for the Cloud

Benchmark Capital has invested a neat $4.5 M into the Santa Barbara based startup RightScale which focuses on bringing cloud computing into the enterprise world. CEO Michael Crandell thinks that RightScale more...
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An Engineer's View of Venture Capitalists

Fortunately, engineers are trained problem-solvers-- I want to harness that power. Engineers, armed with better information about how VCs operate, can work for more equitable solutions. I'm not offering more...
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