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The Dreaded Lunch Invite From Your Venture Capitalist

Most of startup founders are fired in the very first year as founder CEO's and are typically replaced by a VC selected CEO. This is typically done by adding another member to the board, and then voting more...
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The WiMAX party

WiMAX is an interesting technology which is very promising and supposed to make wireless broadband a reality. In this post Jitendra talks about all the major players and their interesting moves. more...
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Google will let you give thumbs up or down to search results

Google is experimenting a voting feature where users would give thumbs up or down to search results. Social News site Digg is front runner and runs the website based on voting only, where user gives thumbs more...
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AdBrite Raises $23M - Online advertising is hot

Adbrite raises $23 million from Sequoia Capital and Artis Management. This clearly goes to show that the online advertising is still hot on the Sandhill Road. more...
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Kindo, a new Genealogy site for making family trees

Kindo is a new genealogy site for making family trees. Its flash based intuitive interface makes it easy to create family trees. Major startups in this area are Geni and Amiglia. more...
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College Tonight trying to go after Facebook Users

College Tonight is a new social networking site dedicated to social networking by college students. As the name implies, the primary focus of the site is night life of the college students. more...
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Family genealogy startup Verdant.de on the rise, beats Geni

Techcrunch is reporting that the Family genealogy and social newtork site Geni is beaten by Verwandt.de . Verdant.de is the clode on Geni, but is Verdandt is reportedly growing many time faster than Geni. more...
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Concerns regarding Facebook privacy

There’s been another round of “Facebook is bad because they use our data” postings this weekend. The general argument is that Facebook should provide users the ability to opt-out of data sharing, more...
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Search, Mix & Play with Songza - GigaOM

Play around with Songza, a music search engine and Internet jukebox, and the first question that pops up into your head will be: How can this be legal? more...
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Zoho Writer Lets You Edit Documents Offline

Today web-based word processor Zoho Writer moves further into Microsoft Word’s territory with the announcement of offline editing capabilities. Zoho enabled offline read-only review of documents in August. more...
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