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Do you a-Spire.com?

Ooooh, here comes another social networking site that caters to the rich - Boston based startup Spire.com is now competing against the likes of DiamondLounge and aSmallWorld to gather eyeballs - well, more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Startup Founders  |  

Mippin Promises to Bring the Web to Mobiles

Half a million users and a name change from Refresh Mobile, London based startup Mippin is promising the moon - bringing the web to the mobile phones. Judy Gibbons, the new CEO thinks that Mippin has more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Mobile 2.0  |  

Our Playbook - Social Community for Sports Fans

OurPlaybook.com, the community for sports fans of both pro and college sports recently launched. The free community allows sports fans to create a free profile, share pictures and videos, create their more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Networking  |  

How to handle reference calls?

The world that we live in trades on reputation. What that means is that eventually whether you are raising capital or landing new customers, your references will matter. If you are an entrepreneur, a more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Startup Funding  |  

Tech Newsjunk

Dave Winer has launched a new tech news site. It is called Tech Newsjunk. Its like techmeme but exclusively focused on products. more...
Discuss  |  Topic: New Media  |  

Twitter May Buy Summize

A source close to Twitter says that the two companies have been in discussions around a merger over the last couple of weeks, but won’t comment on whether an actual sale has occurred, or the terms of more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Web 2.0  |  

Zero Emissions Car Will Be Built In California

Tesla Motors is set to build their zero emissions cars in California, with the support of governor Schwarzenegger. more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Clean Tech  |  

Question is - To VC or Not to VC?

Every entrepreneur will face this pivotal question and needs to carefully evaluate raising PE/VC money as he/she thinks about scaling their ventures. The barriers to entry and capital requirement to start more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Venture Capital  |  

Diary of a Failed Startup

If your idea starts with "We're building a platform to..." and you don't have a billion dollars in capital, find a new idea. Now. more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Startup Lessons  |  

A VC muses: The Death of Stealth Mode

Josh Kopelman writes about the recent spate of blog posts and news items about lawyers and the current fashion of bashing them and wonders if there is a clear death of the stealth mode among startups thanks more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Funding Announcement  |