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Startups Review: iCreateGifts, Seethroo, MyShoppingPal, ElectionPlatform, ideeli

Here is the latest bunch according to Killer Startups: iCreateGifts that allows you to create your own unique gifts, while seethroo is nothing but a behavioral targeting company designed from the ground more...
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The Great Inventors Often Were Neither Great, Nor Inventors

Mike Masnick walks one through this maze again - he explores, explains and expounds on the differences between invention, innovation and the fact that most of the well-known names from history books were more...
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Startup Aims to Revive SF Free WiFi Initiative

Greg Sterling writes about Meraki, the Silicon Valley wireless startup that is aiming to solve a problem that Google and Earthlink had taken up but gave up: providing free WiFi blanket to all those wonderful more...
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A Summary of the VC activity in 2008

This is an Op-Ed piece by Drew Clark, Director of Strategy and co-founder of IBM’s Venture Capital Group. He summarizes the expected levels of VC activity in 2008 on various fronts from CleanTech, Web more...
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Startup Light Blue Optics expands into US

Based in Cambridge, England, Light Blue Optics, the makers of micro projectors and which closed a $26 million Series A funding round that was led by Earlybird Venture Capital of Germany and Belgian group more...
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Jango and Seeqpod Trying to Monetize Music

Stacey Higginbotham explores why new startups keep entering this crowded market to monetize online music - Kasian Franks, CEO of Seeqpod, and Dan Kaufman, CEO of Jango come up with ways of trying to do more...
1 Comment  |  Topic: Music  |  

Earth Class Mail gets $13.3M to turn snail mail to e-mail

Earth Class Mail, which is based in Seattle operates post office boxes around the country. It offers its services to both individuals and businesses, for a monthly fee. The $13.3 million first round funding more...
1 Comment  |  Topic: Services  |  

Microsoftie dealmaker Bruce Jaffe going startup

Bruce Jaffe, a top corporate-development Microsoft executive who helped engineer its $6 billion acquisition of aQuantive and its $240 million investment in Facebook, is leaving the company to start his more...
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Alder Biopharmaceuticals Gets $40M Series C Financing

Alder Biopharmaceuticals, Inc., an antibody therapeutics startup, today announced the its Series C financing. Delphi Ventures and TPG Biotech led the $40 million round. Also participating in the round more...
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5 Networking Tips to help your Startup stand out in 2008

Misty Khan is the President and CEO of Advena Artemis is the guest blogger for the event Startup Houston and provides the following five networking tips that can help your startup standout in the Startup more...
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