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Q&A: The Tweet Worth $1 Million
By Rile at May 10, 2011 | 1:04 pm | 0 Comment
An interview with Ed Buchholz, CEO of 60mo, who tweeted VC Lightbank (the same VC that founded Groupon) – “Hey @Lightbank, we should chat sometime. Mid-westerners gotta stick together, yo.” Three months later, Lightbank responded and now, 60mo has received close to a million dollars. 1. What are your thoughts on there being a VC "bubble" forming, or already more...
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Can “Angel Developers” Save New York From Losing Tech Talent?
By Rile at May 10, 2011 | 12:08 pm | 0 Comment
New York's engineering talent shortage crisis and “developer drain” could be stopped and even reversed if the venture capital community created more “angel developers” to provide a step between simple V/C investing and major angel infusions, Haig Kayserian, CEO of KAYWEB Angels, told us this week. To jumpstart that cooperation, Kayserian founded KAYWEB Angels, more...
An Interview with the Author of “The State of Venture Capital Today”
By Rile at May 3, 2011 | 10:26 am | 1 Comments
An Interview with the Author of "The State of Venture Capital Today" A new report issued Tuesday by venture capital firm Clearstone Partners titled "The State of Venture Capital Today" makes a persuasive case that V/Cs who invest in hot new tech startups now are going to see massive returns on their money--and soon. Venture capital was one of the best asset more...
Tips for “funding pitch” to angel investors
By Martin at April 30, 2011 | 10:26 am | 0 Comment
The average length of a funding pitch to angel investors is ten minutes. Even if you have booked an hour with a VC, you should plan to talk only for the first fifteen minutes. The biggest complaint I hear from investors is that startup founders often talk way too long, and neglect to cover the most relevant points. Or they get sidetracked by a technical glitch due to poor more...
New investment from Google for wind farm sector
By Vineet at April 19, 2011 | 1:52 pm | 0 Comment
Google is heavily relying on renewable energy sector. Just few weeks’ back they have invested in Solar powered project which amounted for $168million dollar. New investment from Google has been announced for wind farm sector(that is again for renewable energy sector). This round of investment amount to $100 million in the Shepherds Flat Wind Farm. It is one of more...
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Biggest investment by Google-For Solar Enrgy Power Plant
By ajay at April 12, 2011 | 12:34 pm | 0 Comment
Google has invested $168 million in a new-solar energy power plant (BrightSource energy). Brightsource’s Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System (ISEGS) will generate 392 gross MW of clean, solar energy. The Ivanpah Power Tower will be approximately 450 feet tall and will use 173,000 heliostats, each with two mirrors. Google has seen some big potential in this more...
Find the right apps via Quixey- Got funding from Eric Schmidt
By ajay at April 8, 2011 | 10:35 am | 0 Comment
Do you often get confused when it comes to selecting right apps for performing any task on your tablet,mobile or desktop? Have you no idea which apps suits you most?Not to worry anymore. Just choose this apps search engine named " Quixey". What it does? Quixey will find the most useful apps for you as per your demand.It can enhance our apps search experince more...
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StartupCrave – For aspiring and budding Internet entrepreneurs
By ajay at March 29, 2011 | 10:20 am | 0 Comment
Are you nurturing a dream of developing a startup company? But, don’t know how to start your project (startup)? At start, we need proper guidance and mentoring for running our startups company. Right? So, are you searching for some platform where you can connect with budding entrepreneurs, investors and prospective cofounders? Is it so? Try Startup more...
Funding to “Just Eat” – An online food ordering service
By ajay at March 17, 2011 | 6:29 pm | 0 Comment
Online food ordering service is one of the fastest growing segment. This segment attracting big VCs as well .We have seen many VCs are recently funding for these sort of company. Recent in this series is, Just Eat, which got new VC funding. Just Eat Got Funding: According to its news release, Just-Eat, the world’s largest food ordering( takeaway ordering) service, more...
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What steps to follow when looking for startup funding
By Martin at March 17, 2011 | 10:30 am | 0 Comment
Money to build the business is the number one challenge for most startups. Don’t believe the urban myth that you can sketch your idea on a napkin, and professional investors will throw money at you. In reality, only 3 out of 100 companies who apply are successful with Angels, and the success rate with VCs is even lower. A large percentage of startups never apply to more...
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MaxPoint is refining the location based advertising-Got Funding
By ajay at March 2, 2011 | 4:58 pm | 0 Comment
Advertising is all about targeting key consumers or customers. Without right targeting we cannot produce good results from our advertising campaigns. Right? If we look at currents trends then anybody can understand why location based technologies(&advertising) become quite popular among all sort of users. Whether you’re individual or organization it benefit more...
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GrowVC’s Growth Chart For Funding Market
By VisionwizTeam at February 16, 2011 | 10:10 am | 0 Comment
Grow VC has shown tremndous growth in last one year since its launch.It has redifned the concept of crowdfunding.They have come out with full growth report: Grow VC offers an international service for international investments and also launched the first local services in India and China. Further local services for other key markets are coming in this year. “We more...
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How To Find Best Angel Investor
By Martin at February 14, 2011 | 6:02 pm | 0 Comment
If your startup is looking for an angel investor, it makes sense to present your plan to flocks of angels, and assume that at least one will swoop down and scoop you up. Or does it? Actually numbers and locations are just the beginning. The challenge is to find the right angel for your, and for your situation. Here are some basic principles: • Angels invest in more...
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Raptr-Play Games While Chatting With Friends-Got Funding
By ajay at February 11, 2011 | 1:30 pm | 0 Comment
Raptr: Raptr is a gaming platform where you can play games while chatting with friends. With Raptr you can see what your Xbox, PS3, Steam, and Xfire friends are playing.You can chat in between games across popular IM and gaming services. Not only that, you can also create a comprehensive gaming profile based on your games and achievements Easy To Use: Once your more...
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What’s Next Step For Huffington Post & AOL?
By VisionwizTeam at February 10, 2011 | 12:58 pm | 0 Comment
Since AOL took over Huffington Post,all of us are curious to know,what's next for them? How they would excute,plan and work together?Right?Here are some insights coming from them: AOL plans to focus more on video during the next year, expanding into Asia with products and offerings after setting up the infrastructure in the U.S. Armstrong and Arianna Huffington, more...
Needle connects product experts with your online customer-got funding
By ajay at February 5, 2011 | 1:06 pm | 0 Comment
Want to buy any new products? But before buying(any new products) you want to talk with experts regarding that product?So,check out this new site named "Needle" that is combining e-commerce and real time live chat into one application.Needle would connect you with right experts before buying any new products.In other words,Needle connects product experts with your online more...
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Manymoon to track your work life-acquired by Salseforce
By ajay at February 3, 2011 | 1:50 pm | 0 Comment
M&A: Manymoon (social productivity tool) is acquired by Salseforce.Manymoon help users to share events,organize content, and colloabrate online and make our work life as simple as possible. You can use it to manage tasks, post interesting links, work on projects, share documents, find out what other people are working on and simplify communications with co-workers, more...
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Is KIT Digital’s Deal -One of the finest deals in recent times ?
By ajay at February 1, 2011 | 1:35 pm | 0 Comment
KIT's deal could be considerd as a one of the finest deals in recent times in digital world.Why? All three companies they have acquired,are revenue generating company and their business model is based on saas(software as a service).Saas business model is most sound business model in digital world.The aggregate revenues for the three completed acquisitions is estimated more...
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Successful business model for your company
By Martin at January 30, 2011 | 5:59 pm | 0 Comment
You can’t succeed in business without an operational model that delivers value to customers at a reasonable price, with an underlying cost that allows you to make a profit. There are no “overrides” – for example, businesses don’t thrive just because they offer the latest technology, or because everyone wants to be “green, or because their goal is to reduce more...
43start ups got funding in one night-Yuri’s smart venture strategy
By ajay at January 30, 2011 | 5:08 pm | 1 Comments
One interesting incident took place at last night in the venture capital world when Yuri Milner has come out with $150k(each) funding for around 43 startups. Most of the funding is given to Y combinator startup. This is quite huge amount considering most of Y-Combinator start ups are in stealth mode. Earlier we have seen $20k to $30k funding for Y combinator start more...
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