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Online advertising: 5 key trends for ad-based startups

Andrew Chen expounds his theory about online advertising during recessionary times and summarizes the five key trends for ad-based startups. Of course, it includes some already known facts like acceleration more...
1 Comment  |  Topic: Advertising  |  

Glum VCs mull over the startup horizon

The startup crisis (hey, didn't you know there was one?) is growing larger. On the heels of the recent spate of news that exits are going south and there was not a single IPO in the last quarter, VCs more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Venture Capital  |  

Is the Bay Area Overrated for Startups?

Today marks the end of my second month in San Francisco, having made the pilgrimage from Scotland in April. The question most regularly asked by those outside the Bay Area’s echo chamber: should my startup more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Startup Founders  |  

As Amazon's S3 Storage Chokes, Startups Sputter

If you had problems with parts of Twitter and Tumblr -- graphics, for example, then blame it on a massive outage of the Amazon's S3 services which provides the managed hosting services for a ton of startups. more...
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VC firms invest US $540 Million in Indian startups

Venture capitalists invested $543 million in 98 Indian deals during 2007, according to Venture Intelligence, an Indian-based VC and private equity tracking firm, found that the 2007 investment total was more...
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Three Itty Bitty Digg Clones You Might Not Know

DigWin, BlogsferaNews and StartupNewz are all fighting for their niche in the user-submitted content corner of the blogosphere. What are today's startups may be tomorrow's Digg. And as each has only a more...
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Why A Real Market Of A Few Is Better Than A Mythical Market of Millions

A good article arguing that a few real customers are better than a mythical million customer market. Once you have a few real customers work, you know that the product works and you get the feedback to more...
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What is the future of Web Startups?

This essay is from our dear Paul Graham on the future of web startups. In this essay he discusses new startup trends. As the cost of doing a startup has gone down, there are more and more startups out more...
2 Comments  |  Topic: Startup Help  |  

LeWeb3 Conference December 2007 in Paris

The startup conference to be at, if you're in Europe at the time. The site offers registration and a list of people who have registered so far. more...
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List of companies presenting at Techcrunch40

List of startups presenting at Techcrunch40 (old name: Techcruch20) is now available before officially being released thanks to blogosphere. Paul Boutin compiled the list be reading the names of the presenting more...
1 Comment  |  Topic: Web 2.0  |