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Solar Startup Stion gets $15 M

A $15 million Series B financing of Stion led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. General Catalyst Partners also participated, as did all three existing investors - Khosla Ventures, Braemar Energy Ventures more...
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Will it fly? Evaluating a New Product Idea

Evan Williams, the co-founder of Twitter and a veteran entrepreneur provides deep insight into evaluating product ideas in this post and analyzes the idea in terms of: Tractability, Obviousness, Deepness, more...
1 Comment  |  Topic: Startup Lessons  |  

Startup Kango Almost Beta for Vacation Planning

Anne Zelenka talks about Kango - a travel site in 'almost beta' now and which has received a Series A round of funding of $4 million from Shasta Ventures. The company was founded by Yen Lee, former general more...
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Digg hires a bank, lusting to sell for $300 million or more

Eric Eldon on Venturebeat talks about the swirling rumors about Digg and how it has hired a bank to help it finalize the deal it finally wants - to sell for $300 Million or more (first from Valleywag). more...
1 Comment  |  Topic: Mergers and Acquisitions  |  

Connecticut start-up Validus DC invents DC power?

This is a funny one for the books now. A Connecticut based power startup called Validus DC Systems wants to pay its PR firm a big bonus just for getting c|net’s Martin LaMonica to believe the company more...
1 Comment  |  Topic: Startup Stories  |  

CVCI Invests Additional $125 Million In JBF Industries

Citigroup Venture Captial International which had recently invested $25 million in Shiv-Vani Oil & Gas and led a round of Rs 273 crore in Jai Balaji Industries, is now putting in an additional $125 Million more...
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Biogen Idec Announces First Startup in Its Innovation Incubator

Bi3 is a corporate initiative designed to contribute to the company's drug development pipeline by offering entrepreneurial scientists the opportunity to rapidly convert novel biological insights into more...
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Google incorporating “Universal Activity Stream” in OpenSocial

Erick Schonfeld at Techcrunch writes about the how Google is incorporating Facebook becon (yes, the controversial feature) into OpenSocial. Facebook's becon feature monitors the activity of users on partners more...
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Startup Purfresh raises $15 M to make food safer

Purfresh is the new name of Novazone, a Livermore, Calif., company that disinfects and protects water and fresh produce and which has raised $42 Million upto now is raising new funding. It was led by more...
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36 Startup Tips for Ye

Veteran Alex Iskold provides a comprehensive set of tips for startups, including 8 Software Engineering tips, 5 Infrastructure Tips, 11 PR Tips, 7 Conference Tips and finally 5 Legal and Finance Tips for more...
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