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by tj on May 08, 2006
last.fm the 'social radio' pioneer announced a new round of investment today from business angels and Index Ventures: "Fast-growing music site Last.fm has taken its first round of...
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by tj on April 19, 2006
David Hornick at VentureBlog discovers that suddenly Augusta's Web 2.0 investments have 33 competitors in their sector - on average! "To give you a sense of the interesting challenge venture...
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by tj on April 19, 2006
SimplyHired raises $13.5 million from Fox Interactive: "This provides tremendous distribution and visibiity for Simply Hired,'' Godhwani said. He added that the funding will allow the...
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by tj on April 14, 2006
PE WeekWire reports about MeetUp's latest round: "MeetUp Inc., a New York-based provider of Internet software for managing community groups, last month disclosed that it had sold just over...
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by tj on April 11, 2006
Jigsaw continues to raise big cash with a Series C bringing in $12 million. " The funding round was led by Austin Ventures and also included previous investors El Dorado Ventures and Norwest...
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by tj on April 11, 2006
Jim sends in the latest analysis from btbOnline: "New York-M&A activity in the media and information industry was up sharply in the first quarter, compared with the same period last year,...
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by tj on April 06, 2006
Youtube - the online video hoster does a full blown Round B - raising $8.5 million. "The San Mateo, California-based company had raised its first round of $3.5 million from Sequoia last November...
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by tj on March 21, 2006
After Zopa in the UK, Prosper has started in the US. The idea seems to work well as communities and groups spread teh lending risks to several individuals. Although it seems still a little early to...
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by tj on March 15, 2006
True I'm late on this - the press release got stuck in our spam filters - Blogging Service SixApart has acquired Splashblog. Pictured Splashblog is a mobile blogging service that lets you upload...
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by tj on March 13, 2006
ScanR the cool gadget photo service has gotten funding from Trinity Ventures as PEWeek reports. More on the ScanR blog: "ScanR, which provides a service enabling camera phones and digital cameras...
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by tj on March 10, 2006
As a:c reports Sequoia has discovered Europe as a new investment area: "A press release was apparently sent to certain German publications in late February. According to Der Spiegel, it took...
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by tj on March 09, 2006
Having launched their product just some weeks ago at DEMO Sharpcast brings in big money: "PALO ALTO, CALIF. (March 8, 2006) - Sharpcast, a leading innovator in real-time synchronization services...
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by tj on February 22, 2006
It seems many blogging properties and technology providers should wait for a call from SixApart's VP Business Development - they must do something with that money... From Silicon Beat: "Six...
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by tj on February 14, 2006
As CNET reports MYSQL has bagged a major series C: "Open-source database company MySQL said it has secured $18.5 million in series C funding, a round led by Institutional Venture Partners. The...
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by tj on February 05, 2006
Well not long ago I was musing about Fon as the new Skype and apparently someone at Skype wanted to have a piece of the action: "FON a wireless services company started by maverick entrepreneur...
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by tj on February 02, 2006
Just found a recent summary of Richard Skentra in which he reports about the new competive arena for Topix: "I count at least 15 news startups trying to tag, aggregate or community-edit the...
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by tj on February 02, 2006
ContentSutra has the scoop on the round for one of India's largest online travel companies - TravelGuru: "Today's The Economic Times has some financial details of the deal. Travelguru is...
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by tj on February 02, 2006
Innocentive has been residing in my boomarks for some two years now - great news today: "InnoCentive today announced it has closed a $9 million Series A Preferred venture capital financing round...
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by tj on January 31, 2006
RedHerring has the news about the size of SlingMedia's round: "Sling Media, which makes a set-top box that allows users to access their television programs, music, and pictures from their...
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by tj on January 30, 2006
As the TimesOnline reports another European player cleans up the basement: "WESTLB, the German bank, is pulling out of venture capital once and for all as it prepares to sell its last remaining...
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by tj on January 30, 2006
Tom Evslin elaborates on this emerging topic/ idea: "To oversimplify what he is saying, VC Rick Segal blogs that a VC used to provide both a Rolodex full of contacts which the entrepreneur...
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by tj on January 26, 2006
Guy Kawasaki has a nice guide to bootstrap (I guess its from one of his books - just don't know which one?): "Focus on cash flow, not profitabilityThe theory is that profits are the key to...
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