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Three Lucky Startups Get Free Advertising on Mashable

Is this a gig or a sign of desperation? Mashable, the venerable social something site is offering three lucky startups a dream deal - they will get free advertising on prime property and get a lot of more...
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SAI Parent Company Raises Lotsa Money

Henry Blodget of Silicon Alley Insider (SAI) says that the parent company of SAI has been evaluated at a pretty decent amount and has secured a pretty decent amount of funding. Another way of saying astronomic more...
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Sharing the News From 5 Solar Startups

Boston based Wakonda Technologies has secured Series A $9.5 Million in funding. Fat Spaniel is working on solar monitoring. Recurrent Energy has raised a big, tidy sum of $75 Million (yes, you got that more...
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Become.com, a Shopping site raises $8 million in 4th funding round

Mountain View based company Become.com's CEO Michael Yang said that the company was on a roll, raising its fourth round of funding - a neat sum of $8 Million for providing comparison shopping and a host more...
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Do the Startup Companies Need Community Managers?

Marshall Kirkpatrick expounds on the idea that since founders and key startup people are too busy to pay enough attention to the community, startup companies will probably do well to have dedicated community more...
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Webroot founder found dead in Hawaii

Considered by many to be a security visionary for having come up with the anti-spyware idea and founder of the startup Webroot in 1997, Steven Thomas was declared missing for a few days and has finally more...
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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  |  

Planeteye, Blowing Other Travel Sites Out of the Water?

A Mashable story looking at PlanetEye, an online travel planning service that recently launched. more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Web 2.0  |  

Kawasaki looks to a new launch - Frienderati

Guy Kawasaki's Alltop is launching a counterpart to the Twitterati - called Frienderati. Celebrities like Dave Winer, Loic Le Meur, Kevin Rose, and Guy Kawasaki (who is also one of the founders of Alltop more...
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Mobile Search : Market Trends and Business Opportunities 2005-2010

The unquestionable success of Google proves that the internet search business model has evolved hugely since the early days. Given this development and the recent news that websites can now to be given more...
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