Michael Arrington - Startup News

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When pitching for VC money, do reviews matter?

Michael Arrington has a post on theFunded.com, which is the now well-known website for either throwing bouquets or brickbats at VCs who either funded you or chose to ignore you through their own unique more...

Discuss | Topic: Venture Capital | by Jitendra 101 days ago (techcrunch.com)

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Meebo Goes For Fundraising Instead Of Sale

Rumors said that at one point they looked for a valuation of $250 Million but could not find a buyer and therefore, web chat startup Meebo has gone in for another round of funding, says TechCrunch's Michael more...

Discuss | Topic: Online Apps and Widgets | by Jitendra 141 days ago (techcrunch.com)

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Bloggers are raising money and eyebrows

Caution: A nice long post by Michael Arrington about bloggers raising money and how the landscape could shape up. Just a month ago VentureBeat reported a $320,000 raise. In 2007 we saw Sugar Inc. ($10 more...

Discuss | Topic: New Media | by Jitendra 163 days ago (techcrunch.com)

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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 | by Jitendra 193 days ago (techcrunch.com)

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An Outsider’s Flawed View Of Silicon Valley

When Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman wrote a blog post a couple of days ago comparing Silicon Valley unfavorably to the Seattle tech scene, it raised some attention. Now, our own Michael Arrington takes on the more...

Discuss | Topic: Startup Stories | by Jitendra 196 days ago (techcrunch.com)

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Source Says: $1 billion Acquisition “Definitely Happened”

Michael Arrington follows up his previous story on Bebo. He says that Bebo, which is the second largest social network in the UK behind Facebook, either signed a deal, or is sending out false messages more...

Discuss | Topic: Mergers and Acquisitions | by Jitendra 198 days ago (techcrunch.com)

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Things Are Looking Gooood At Startup Schwag

Michael Arrington re-visits the startup Startup Schwag after a few months to examine what's going on at their end. This company offers a service that sends users startup-branded tshirts and stickers every more...

Discuss | Topic: Services | by Jitendra 228 days ago (techcrunch.com)