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Facebook Announces $10 Million Fund for Application Developers--

Facebook will introduce the FB Fund in conjunction with Founders Fund and Accel Partners, which will offer grants between $25,000 - $250,000 for developers of applications for the Facebook network. more...
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Docstoc Announces Series A Funding

Looks like Docstoc is going to take on scribd sooner than later. The Beverly Hills-based company announced its Series A financing today, but the amount was undisclosed. According to CEO Jason Nazar, the more...
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Greylock Partners Invests In Stealth Search Engine Cuill

Cuill, which was founded by husband and wife team Tom Costello and Anna Patterson, can supposedly index web pages at 1/10th the cost of Google (a significant competitive advantage) and has claims of relevance more...
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Ever-younger entrepreneurs

There have always been ambitious young entrepreneurs - Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard University to build Microsoft, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin left a PhD program at Stanford University to launch more...
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VC Draper Fisher to Invest in India with million fund; Reva, mChek, Seventymm in List

Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), a California based venture capital firm is set to invest $75 million fund in coming 3 years with already making direct presence in India via its offices in Bangalore and more...
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4 Quick Tips on Raising Startup Funding Without A Plan Or A PowerPoint

As a member of the local Boston entrepreneurial community and a part-time angel investor, I come into contact with lots of new startups at various stages of the process. It continually amazes me how much more...
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Vantrix raises $12M in venture capital

Manhattan based Vantrix, a provider of content for cell-phones has raised $12M in the latest round of funding. more...
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Finding the clean tech money

The third hottest sector to get VC money, CleanTech funders and fund-seekers can benefit from some salient points. more...
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Startup Challenge by Amazon - Win $100,000 for creative use of AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is searching for the next hot start-up that is leveraging AWS to build its infrastructure and business. Do you have a great idea or an existing application that uses services more...
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Wireless sensor startup gains funding

Wireless sensor startup SynapSense got $10million funding. The funding is led by Emerald Technology Ventures, with participation by all current SynapSense investors, such as American River Ventures, Nth more...
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