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Filed in archive Venture Capital by tj on July 09, 2008

Silicon Valley's mood has turned to blues The overall mood of the country has now befallen many start-ups and investors here as well. Good business for Sherwood Partners. The company helps to...

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Find the valuation for your Web 2.0 start-up Title: Find the valuation for your Web 2.0 start-up
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Filed in archive Venture Capital by tj on May 01, 2008

So finally a Web 2.0 startup we really need! Bizak.com is providing a valuation tool for entrepreneurs and investors. Simply input your visitors per month and earnings/ costs and teh site compute a...

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kinkaa raises first round from HTGF Title: kinkaa raises first round from HTGF
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Filed in archive Venture Capital by tj on January 22, 2008

I just came back from two hectic weeks in Europe. A lot of good news - kinkaa relaunched its interface and raised it's first round of 600k EUR from HTGF. HTGF invested 500k+ in loans and equity...

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Smaato raises Series A Title: Smaato raises Series A
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Filed in archive Venture Capital by tj on January 22, 2008

I got to know Ragnar several years ago and like his unstoppable entrepreneurial spirit and enthusiasm from day one. In 2005 Ragnar and Petra decided to develop software for smart phones and use...

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M&A deals of 2007 Title: M&A deals of 2007
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Filed in archive Venture Capital by tj on January 03, 2008

Steve at Partnerup has done the effort to write down COMPLETE list of major M&A deals in the media, internet, tech and gaming industry. Quite a feat - many interesting deals there I had not seen....

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kayak and sidestep merge Title: kayak and sidestep merge
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Filed in archive Venture Capital by tj on December 21, 2007

Surprising move by the two largest travel meta-search engines - they become one! Ken Schachter at Redherring comments: Travel search engine Kayak.com has pulled down $196 million in one of the largest...

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SixApart to sell Livejournal Title: SixApart to sell Livejournal
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Filed in archive Venture Capital by tj on December 03, 2007

SixApart cashes in on one of its assets: The nearly three-year marriage is dissolving with Six Apart's sale of LiveJournal to Russia-based SUP a deal expected to be announced Monday. The...

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Splunks way to $20 million in Series C Title: Splunks way to $20 million in Series C
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Filed in archive Venture Capital by tj on September 11, 2007

Michael Baum, CEO of Splunk takes the time to note down his impressions on Splunks impressive series C in his own blog: A few months ago I started working on a next round of funding for our company,...

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Cellity with fresh funds Title: Cellity with fresh funds
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Filed in archive Venture Capital by tj on July 12, 2007

Cellity - the new startup of two of the investors (Sarik Weber, Nils Weitemeyer) in Creative Weblogging and kinkaa have raised fresh funds on their own as Alarm::Clock Europe reports. Mangrove...

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Mangrove invests into Jamendo Title: Mangrove invests into Jamendo
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Filed in archive Venture Capital by tj on July 12, 2007

Tonado Insider reports about a new bottom-up approach in music downloading - Jamendo - not too far away from last.fm: Today, investment bank Bryan, Garnier & Co issued a press release announcing...

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Is it 1999 all over again? Title: Is it 1999 all over again?
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Filed in archive Venture Capital by tj on July 11, 2007

I found this classic piece today at Cnet: Shares of Healtheon soared more than 20 percent today as the company confirmed a long-anticipated merger with privately held WebMD and vowed to use an...

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Amp'd Mobile files for bankruptcy protection Title: Amp'd Mobile files for bankruptcy protection
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Filed in archive Venture Capital by tj on July 11, 2007

Not long ago I was stunned all the time seemingly ease that Amp'd raising round after round. Now it turns out even the gigantic cash infusions are already spent: Los Angeles-based Amp'd, which...

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A glimpse of the future Title: A glimpse of the future
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Filed in archive Venture Capital by tj on July 06, 2007

was reaching my inbox lately - the latest deal data for July 20th 2007 (remember today is July 6th). Certainly a typo was just the source of this but nevertheless there were a couple of very...

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Stefan Glaenzer about his last.fm story Title: Stefan Glaenzer about his last.fm story
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Filed in archive Venture Capital by tj on June 15, 2007

The Times has an interview/ editorial about Stefan Glaenzer, investor and until the CBS deal, chairman of last.fm. Having German roots helped him to win confidence, and Mr Glaenzer became chairman of...

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last.fm sells to CBS for $280 million in hard, cold cash Title: last.fm sells to CBS for $280 million in hard, cold cash
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Filed in archive Venture Capital by tj on May 30, 2007

last.fm the recently much hyped social radio/ music community has found a buyer who apparently draws many comparison between myspace and last.fm - CBS. LONDON/ NEW YORK (Reuters) - CBS Corp. said on...

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Jajah raises $15 million from Intel Capital in Series C Title: Jajah raises $15 million from Intel Capital in Series C
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Filed in archive Venture Capital by tj on May 09, 2007

Jajah has secured a sizeable strategic partner in it's quest to conquer global telephony markets - Intel. Extremetech about the investment: Intel said Wednesday that it has invested $15 million...

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News Corp to acquire Photobucket.com Title: News Corp to acquire Photobucket.com
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Filed in archive Venture Capital by tj on May 08, 2007

That was quick - from 'under the radar' to a rumored acquisition by one of the most active buyer of media assets. Photobucket apparently is closing in on a $250 million exit While hardly...

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YousendIt with $10 milion round Title: YousendIt with $10 milion round
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Filed in archive Venture Capital by tj on April 24, 2007

YouSendIt is one of the companies I use from time to time to send bigger files with minimum hassle. While the emails you get after registration are a bit annoying it works and is a great service....

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Why consumer web startups should raise more money - now mathematically proven Title: Why consumer web startups should raise more money - now mathematically proven
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Filed in archive Venture Capital by tj on March 30, 2007

If you ever wondered why consumer startups raise extraordinary amounts of money again for rather simple looking services - check out Peter Rip's blog: Imagine you have a low-burn consumer internet...

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Zopa and Spotzer with impressive later stage rounds Title: Zopa and Spotzer with impressive later stage rounds
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Filed in archive Venture Capital by tj on March 24, 2007

Certainly underlining my post about the advanced recovery of Venture Capital in Europe are the two later stage rounds for Zopa and Spotzer: Spotzer hurries to get backing from media heavyweights: In...

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Series B and C rounds all over - incl. Brightcove, Meebo, Tagworld Title: Series B and C rounds all over - incl. Brightcove, Meebo, Tagworld
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Filed in archive Venture Capital by tj on January 18, 2007

PE Week Wire reports about a row of interesting findings today - several rounds B and C confirming the sometimes bold bets VCs made in the category leaders some months and years ago: Brightcove the...

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StudiVZ sells to Holtzbrinck Title: StudiVZ sells to Holtzbrinck
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Filed in archive Venture Capital by tj on January 07, 2007

StudiVZ the most successful German Facebook clone has sold itself to the mother company of venture investor Holtzbrinck Networxs. StudiVZ has around 1 Million users (as far as I know active and...

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