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[Posted on October 31, 2007 - 12:25 PM]
Brian Gruber, president and CEO of Fora.tv, an online video channel for intellectuals and other smarty-pants, got so much love from potential investors in raising a seed round that he's...

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[Posted on October 30, 2007 - 5:23 PM]
Stealth startup fixTopia has raised roughly $500,000 in seed funding from individuals and angels including Reed Hundt, former chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, says Lee Rand, the company's...

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[Posted on October 29, 2007 - 3:23 PM]
Google Inc. [GOOG] is pledging more money to Indian startups by joining the Indian Angel Network (couldn't they have found images of some, you know, actual Indian entrepreneurs for the...

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[Posted on October 29, 2007 - 3:05 PM]
You've got to hand it to Fred Wilson at Union Square Ventures. The man manages to stay in the news every week even as he is barraged by entrepreneurs seeking...

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[Posted on October 26, 2007 - 6:23 PM]
Richard Barton, CEO of Zillow.com, has bet heavily on people's obsession with real estate. Now he's placing his money on an even surer bet: People's obsession with themselves. Barton is...

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[Posted on October 26, 2007 - 4:02 PM]
Internet matchmaking services designed to bring entrepreneurs and angels together rarely work out. Which is what makes Space Angels Network LLC even more ambitious than most such efforts. The online network,...

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[Posted on October 26, 2007 - 2:50 PM]
  Speaking at an event in Austin, Texas, Thursday night, blogger and new media publisher Om Malik compared the print media giants to Detroit carmakers, and he questioned their ability...

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[Posted on October 24, 2007 - 2:38 PM]
Perhaps recognizing the importance of seed capital in encouraging innovation and entrepreneurship, the government of India is creating a Rs75 million ($2 million) seed fund, according to India's Business Standard....

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[Posted on October 24, 2007 - 2:02 PM]
The press will certainly have plenty of color to draw on if startup du jour Tumblr, which recently raised some seed money, ever makes it big. Take Jakob Lodwick, founder...

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[Posted on October 23, 2007 - 5:25 PM]
Secrecy was once de rigeur among high-tech startups. But the ease and minimal costs of launching a company these days is making entrepreneurs rethink the value of operating in stealth...

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[Posted on October 23, 2007 - 4:58 PM]
  Molecular diagnostics firm SensiGen LLC has raised an additional $300,000 in seed capital. The most recent funding came from Delaware Crossing Investor Group, a mid-Atlantic region angel investor group....

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[Posted on October 23, 2007 - 3:17 PM]
Stealth software company Medical Cyberworlds, a spinout of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has raised $500,000 in a seed round, according to the Wisconsin Technology Network, which posted the news on...

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[Posted on October 23, 2007 - 3:15 PM]
High-tech and Internet entrepreneurs in New York City have a common complaint, judging from the comments on Tuesday of attendees at Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Startup Camp. They say it's hard...

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[Posted on October 23, 2007 - 1:36 PM]
Joining TechStars in Colorado and Y Combinator in Silicon Valley and Boston, New Haven, Conn., has its own startup initiative that is clicking into gear. Last summer Yale University held...

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[Posted on October 22, 2007 - 12:22 PM]
Matt Douglas, CEO of recently funded Punchbowl Software Inc., posted an interesting blog talking about his struggles to pull together a strong business plan and get Intel Capital on board...

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[Posted on October 19, 2007 - 4:00 PM]
In picking through the paper Form D filings at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, PEHub discovered that blogging site Tumblr Inc. has raised $750,000 in seed funding from Spark...

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[Posted on October 19, 2007 - 12:48 PM]
Internet startups are easy to build, cheap to fund and hard to build a business around. So the latest "trend" of developing a startup in a weekend or even an...

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[Posted on October 18, 2007 - 1:03 PM]
Canadian startups seeking early-stage capital have it rough according to this story in The Globe and Mail. The piece profiles an effort by the Canadian Angel Investment Network Inc. to...

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[Posted on October 18, 2007 - 12:59 PM]
RAIN Source Capital is seeking angel investors for its 25th RAIN Source Capital fund, which will inject capital in select Detroit seed-stage companies. The fund will be affiliated with Detroit's...

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[Posted on October 17, 2007 - 4:29 PM]
Online invitation startup Zoji has raised $1.5 million in an undisclosed "friends-and-family" round. The funding highlights a fundamental problem of investing in Web 2.0 startups; namely, the low barriers to...

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[Posted on October 16, 2007 - 5:03 PM]
  Attention venture capital firms, Ohio would like to invest in YOU! A few years ago, the Buckeye State created a $150 million fund-of-funds to invest in venture firms who...

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[Posted on October 16, 2007 - 4:40 PM]
Biotechnology company Linkage Biosciences Inc. has scored an undisclosed seed round that brings its total funding to $1 million. The seed round was led by Greenhouse Capital Partners LP,...

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[Posted on October 16, 2007 - 2:41 PM]