The Deal
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[Posted on September 28, 2007 - 3:08 PM]
The deal Friday for mobile and social networking firm Zingku raises larger questions for today's startup culture. The fledgling company raised an undisclosed amount of venture money from Flagship Ventures...

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[Posted on September 28, 2007 - 2:55 PM]
Most entrepreneurs and early-stage investors can go on for hours about the funding gap for startups between friends-and-family rounds and a Series A investment. Angels are supposed to fill this...

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[Posted on September 28, 2007 - 1:18 PM]
On Tuesday The Deal wrote about the boost in valuation Facebook Inc. derives from the thousands of applications built on the social networking platform. On Thursday, Valleywag highlighted a programmer...

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[Posted on September 28, 2007 - 1:15 PM]
It was a whirlwind of activity at the Rice Alliance's Fifth Annual Energy and Clean Technology Venture Forum Thursday afternoon. Fifty companies each made a 90-second elevator pitch to the audience, which...

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[Posted on September 27, 2007 - 5:21 PM]
Energy technology developers descended onto Rice University's campus in Houston on Thursday for the Rice Alliance's 5th Annual Energy and Clean Technology Venture Forum. They included solar power producer GreenVolts...

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[Posted on September 27, 2007 - 3:02 PM]
Today, I seem to be obsessed with timing, so this post from the Texas Startup Blog resonated with me. In it, Alexander Muse writes about the Thirteen Months of Hell,...

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[Posted on September 27, 2007 - 2:43 PM]
Stealth company Praized Media Inc. raised $1 million earlier this month from Garage Ventures Technology Canada to do something around local advertising and social networks. As the company was being...

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[Posted on September 27, 2007 - 2:04 PM]
The question about whether to raise venture capital is a perpetual one for startups. The phrase "It takes money to make money" echoes in entrepreneurs' ears as they mull how...

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[Posted on September 26, 2007 - 11:50 AM]
Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York have developed an algorithm that helps map out a person's genetic ancestry in a few minutes using DNA taken from a cheek...

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[Posted on September 24, 2007 - 5:29 PM]
There's just something about Utah. The blogosphere is abuzz over storage giant EMC Corp. reportedly buying Utah-based online storage startup Mozy for $76 million. It's big news not only because...

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[Posted on September 24, 2007 - 2:15 PM]
In a story Monday, The Boston Globe discusses the pros and cons of blogging for venture capitalists. One of the benefits, according to the piece, is that it helps VCs...

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[Posted on September 24, 2007 - 12:30 PM]
Flexible Medical Systems LLC has raised $1.2 million from undisclosed investors to begin human tests of its diagnostic technology, the company said Friday.The startup is working on a way to...

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[Posted on September 20, 2007 - 10:40 AM]
While venture capitalists are having a field day this year, angel investors are in a bit of a slump. For the first half of 2007, angels invested a total...

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[Posted on September 19, 2007 - 1:16 PM]
With the credit crunch punishing hedge funds and private equity firms, limited partners investing in alternative assets are returning to venture funds, said Patrick Ennis, a managing director with Arch...

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[Posted on September 19, 2007 - 8:02 AM]
Venture capitalists that prefer to avoid "fly over country" might be missing some great deals, not only in terms of possible companies to fund, but also because such enterprises are...

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[Posted on September 18, 2007 - 5:20 PM]
Investment funds and economic development rarely go hand-in-hand. Sure, the two can happen to show up at the same parties, but they can't be married. No successful fund manager...

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[Posted on September 18, 2007 - 5:05 PM]
Mixed in with all the Web 2.0 startups pushing video and user-generated content, there are plenty of companies still working with text and basic banner ads. If the Web 1.0...

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[Posted on September 18, 2007 - 2:40 PM]
  Seed- and early-stage investors are acutely aware that their liquidity events depend on later investors, possibly a venture fund, seeing their deal and believing that it can be sold...

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[Posted on September 18, 2007 - 2:35 PM]
  A successful startup does not come into the world ready to accept venture capital. Such is the consensus at the National Association of Seed and Venture Funds' annual conference....

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[Posted on September 18, 2007 - 1:12 PM]
Facebook Inc. is joining with two if its investors, Accel Partners and the Founders Fund, to launch the fbFund, which will offer money to companies that develop applications for the...

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[Posted on September 17, 2007 - 1:10 PM]
The latest crop of data from Dow Jones VentureOne and Ernst & Young looks at the funding of Web 2.0 companies globally and determines that investment in U.S. startups far exceeds that...

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[Posted on September 17, 2007 - 10:50 AM]
The Seed Stage will be attending the National Association of Seed and Venture Funds conference in Little Rock, Ark., Monday evening through Wednesday. Expect posts on pulling technology out of...

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[Posted on September 17, 2007 - 10:30 AM]