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• Great Domains & VC Dollars Are Helping 30-Year-Old Jay Penske Build a New Media Empire

  
  Adam Dicker | Domain Expert — Authority: 163
  With acquisitions of Mail.com, Fan.com, Deadline.com & others, the 30-year-old son of auto racing legend Roger Penske is building an Internet media empire. Here’s how Jay Penske, backed by $35 million in venture capital, plans to be a big winner in the transition from traditional media to online publishing. ...
  7 hours ago

• Five Arizona Companies That Got Some Funding

  
  Derek Neighbors — Authority: 423
  The other day I lamenting about “ Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is ” and this week I noticed that the Phoenix Business Journal a list of entrepreneurs that found funding this year . $10M Sharp Equity – A resource for buying homes at trustee sales;  specializes in trustee sales, fix-and-flips, ...
  14 hours ago

• Looking For An Expert In SEO/SEM/Online Direct Marketing

  
  A VC — Authority: 655
  Our portfolio company Targetspot is looking for an experienced online direct marketer to "own" and manage their self serve advertising business. Thisis a fun job for the right person because it is an opportunity to runand grow a small business inside a bigger business. If you are an "entrepreneur" looking for a ...
  15 hours ago

• VCs, VCs everywhere, not an Angel to fund!

  
  Trakin' the india business buzz — Authority: 501
  How difficult it would be, for a great team working on cutting edge technology with a proven track record, and potential military applications, to raise Rs 20 lakhs in India? That is not a hypothetical question. That was the question faced by a team of 8 students from Delhi College of Engineering , as they set about ...
  1 day ago

• The challenge for Canadian VC’s

  
  W Media Ventures — Authority: 100
  VC funds go through challenging times world-wide but the situation in Canada is probably worse than in many other places. Most VC’s in this country have been focused on the domestic market, both for raising funds as well as investing their money. Turns out that this created returns that were about 10% below the ...
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• Xinya Media Completed Its Latest Round of Financing

  
  SGEntrepreneurs — Authority: 478
  A Singapore based media company, Xinya Media (Xinya) today announced that EDB Investments (EDBI) has taken a stake in Xinya. Including the investments from Gobi Partners and Cheng’s Film, Xinya has successfully raised a total amount of US$9 million in this round. The new funds will aid the growth plan of Xinya and ...
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• Some Things To Be Thankful For This Year

  
  A VC — Authority: 655
  1) The economic meltdown/panic of 2008 is largely over. The economy is still weak but markets are functioning and buyers are buying and sellers are selling. 2) The FCC has submitted a proposal for rulemaking on net neutrality . 3) Android looks to be a winner and will give the iPhone a much needed competitor to ...
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• Canadian company bought over by alternative fuel-vehicle parts maker

  
  DataGrant Venture Capital News — Authority: 132
  Canada’s Schneider Power Inc. has been acquired by Irvine-based Quantum technologies Inc., a maker of parts for alternative fuel powered cars in a stock deal worth $20 million. Using self-owned stock Quantum plans to buy completely the shares and warrants of the Toronto based firm which totals $71 million. Schneider ...
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• Green Mountain wins Diedrich bid, for the time being

  
  DataGrant Venture Capital News — Authority: 132
  The acquisition game being played out since Monday has almost reached a conclusion. Vermont-based Green Mountain has won after Diedrich Coffee Inc. sided with the formers $265 million offer on Wednesday. Surprisingly, the heads of Diedrich said it was a “superior” proposal to Emeryville-based Peet’s Tea and ...
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• DFJ raising $400 Million for Startups in India

  
  The Next Web — Authority: 757
  Draper Fisher Jurvetson , the venture capital firm which backed Skype, Feedburner, Overture, Baidu, and many such other startups which were later acquired by big Internet fishes is planning to raise $400 Million for start ups in India, US and China. The economic growth rate indicates that India and China would ...
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• Augmented reality to be a $732 million market by 2014?

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 160
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• Augmented reality to be a $732 million market by 2014?

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 155
  Hype around augmented reality, a technology that can superimpose graphics or information over the real world in your phone’s viewfinder, is at a fever pitch. But can it deliver the revenues?Around two dozen applications like Layar, Junaio and Wikitude have burst onto iPhone and Android devices as smartphones with ...
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• Finmin set up working committee to review existing policy on foreign portfolio investment

  
  LEGAL & FINANCIAL UPDATES FROM TAX GURU — Authority: 451
  To encourage foreign portfolio investment, the Finance Ministry has set up a working group for suggesting changes in the existing policy on foreign capital inflows by FIIs, NRIs and venture capital funds. The 16-member group on portfolio... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website www.taxguru.in for full ...
  2 days ago

• Not All Clean Tech Start-ups Need $200 Million; The Other Side Of Venture Investing

  
  TechPulse 360 — Authority: 477
  Clean tech investing is often thought of as big money, big scale, speculative returns. But not all green start-ups require venture capitalists to write large checks. The misconception is that every clean-energy project requires the hundreds of millions of dollars that have gone to Solyndra or Bloom Energy to ...
  2 days ago

• About Start-up Passion

  
  Founder's View — Authority: 92
  TechCrunch Europe had an interesting article by an anonymous VC the other day. The essence was: “I am in London-based startups’ offices all the time and I am gobsmacked when they are nearly empty by 6:30 PM… European startups need to work as hard as Valley ones – or forget it “ I have been thinking about ...
  2 days ago

• Does Rupert Murdoch have an Internet strategy?

  
  Scholars and Rogues — Authority: 601
  As a follow-on to Dr. Denny’s post on Rupert Murdoch way back on 29 August, there have been further developments worth noting in this space. There has been a flurry of headlines the past few weeks over recent comments by Murdoch, who now is making noises about removing News Corp news stories from Google. He’s ...
  2 days ago

• Where Failure is an Option: San Diego’s Startup Culture as a Bay Area Annex

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 701
  startups , Venture Capital , culture Bruce V. Bigelow wrote: Not long ago, one of my Xconomy colleagues in Seattle posted a provocative piece about startup failures and suggested the startup culture in some cities—especially the San Francisco Bay Area—is far more tolerant of technology ...
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• Ten Years Advising Tech Startups

  
  TechDrawl — Authority: 127
  Ten Years Advising Tech Startups - Part 2 of 2 Part Series I’ve been reflecting lately on my almost decade of experience working with tech entrepreneurs at Georgia Tech’s Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) in Atlanta, GA. ATDC is a start-up accelerator that helps Georgia technology ...
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• What would you like to know about venture capital?

  
  The Equity Kicker — Authority: 423
  I’m giving a talk on venture capital to a class of MBA students at the Cass Business School on Friday.  I suspect some of them will be there to learn about venture capital as a career option and some of them will be there because they are (or plan to be) entrepreneurs.  That is a pretty good match with how I ...
  2 days ago

• Tesla to Build Model S in California Town

  
  DealBook — Authority: 762
  Tesla Motors is close to a deal to build an electric car factory at the site of a former N.A.S.A. manufacturing plant in Downey, Calif., a blue-collar city south of Los Angeles.
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