Controversial word of mouth marketing company BzzAgent raises a $13.75 million in a Series A from IDG Ventures and General Catalyst Partners. More from their homepage: "What is Bzz? Bzz is the...

Streamload the company we liked a lot during DEMO in September finally launched the full version of their digital media center. It now provides space of up to 250 (!) GB for your digital content for...

Jonathan aka the Philoneist has some interesting interviews with emerging publishing/ tech companies: - Interview With Slashdot Founder Rob Malda- Interview With Technorati Marketing Director Derek...

Photo search company Riya strikes a big deal as Red Herring reports: ""It's a lot of money because we think we have a big opportunity," said Peter Rip of Leapfrog Ventures, which...

Mywavez a Menlo Park based video sharing site, apparently still in stealth mode, reports a 3.04 million in Series A funding led by Menlo Ventures according to PE Week Wire. Only available info I cound...

Apparently video search specialist Truveo has managed to exit for a nice sum of $50 million. SiliconBeat has the scoop: "Wow, you can launch a start-up these days, and in two years sell it for a...

Texas based Bazaarvoice has raised $4 million in the first round: "Other investors include Josh Kopelman, founder of Half.com Inc. and a partner at venture capital firm First Round Capital;...

Sptrunner is an ineresting concept that helps small business to get their ads on TV. SiliconBeat reports: "Think it's tough getting local advertisers to embrace Internet advertising? Try TV...

A rather strange discussion is going on at digg.com's site about Steven Mallett allegedly stealing code form digg.com. In the heat of the moment most commenters wished Mr. Mallett into a worser...

Paul Allen hints me to this Business Week article that implies the move of investing Angels 'up the food chain' to invest more like VCs: "Many angels took big hits after 2000 as...

Paul Allen goes through some interesting examples how to keep your costs down when building a company: "One of my friends has a brilliant way to keep his costs down and to give his employees...

Occams Razor has some interesting meta data: "Despite this explosion of new software, the software industry itself is shrinking. In 2005, the aggregate market capitalization of the software...

Guy Kawasaki has found the time to come up with his Personal Top 10: ""Show us some traction, and we'll invest." In other words, "no." This lie translates to "I...

As we report over Webpay's impressive round micropayment provider Yanca gives up and sells its assets to Bitpass: "Micropayment company BitPass announced Thursday that it has acquired Yaga,...

Tornado Insider reports about the latest finance round for Webpay: "2006 got off to a tremendous start for online payment services provider Webpay. The Swiss company was happy to announce its...

No it is not me this time but Rob aka Businesspundit has taken a hiatus from being entrepreneur: "It's hard to find a job after doing your own thing, but I managed to get several great...

You might have missed the conference 'Beyond Blogs and Social Networking' in New York last month. But David Teten has compiled an overview including ppt's for all sessions! "Managing...

According to PE Week Wire Browster has raised $3.37 million from Vanguard Ventures and Advanced Technology Ventures. "...Earlier seed backers included John Zeisler of Gabriel Venture Partners,...

I enjoyed the last days of the old year and the first ones of the new year in a beautiful town called Soda Springs not too far away from Lake Tahoe. A wonderful place with great mountain scenery....

I just discovered this interesting site - http://www.venturecapitalconferences.com/. As the name says it lists for free Venture Capital Conferences around the world. Surely it needs to grow a little...