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Question is - To VC or Not to VC?

Every entrepreneur will face this pivotal question and needs to carefully evaluate raising PE/VC money as he/she thinks about scaling their ventures. The barriers to entry and capital requirement to start more...
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Sequoia pumps $4.5 million on casual-game site

Boasting of angel investors like Ron Conway, the casual gaming site Challenge Games is now crowing in delight as Sequoia Capital has invested $4.5 Million into the company. Challenge Games is aiming to more...
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Intel Capital funds three Indian startups

The venture arm of Intel, the chip giant has pumped in $17 Million into funding three startups: Yatra.com which is travel based online service, BuzzInTown.com which is event-based and Emnet Samsara Media more...
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Intel Capital invests in solar startup Voltaix

Branchburg, NJ based solar startup Voltaix has received $12.5 Million in funding from Intel Capital. The company manufactures electronic chemicals and gases for chip applications. It also makes CVD precursors more...
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Google starting venture capital group

While sitting pretty on a cash pile of about $12.7 Billion dollars, Google is extending into the VC market with a big fund (amount unknown) and led by senior vice president David Drummond and entrepreneur more...
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RIP: VC Keith Benjamin

Silicon Valley has lost a valuable friend and mentor in the form of VC Keith Benjamin. Still in the prime of his life, Keith suffered from subdural heamatoma, a form of brain injury from which he did more...
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What's next for Venture Capital?

Since things have been rather slow on the VC front, IPO market, a lot of theories are going around about what is the next thing for VCs? What are they looking for and where are they willing to put their more...
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EyeFi raises another round of funding

Raising $11 Million in its second round of funding, EyeFi has taken its total investment to $17 Million. The lead investors include Translink Capital and LMS Capital. Existing investors Opus Capital and more...
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20Q For The Venture Capitalists At TechCrunch50

The event TechCrunch50 had a panel of VCs on the stage and Erick Schonfeld and Mark Pincus came up with 20 top questions submitted by the audience to ask of these VCs - they ranged from the expected to more...
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Big Fish Games Garners $83.3 Million For Casual Game Distribution

Originally founded in 2002 as a game development studio, Big Fish Games has gotten pretty nice funding from Balderton Capital, General Catalyst Partners, and Salmon River Capital. It has secured $83.3 more...
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