The Deal
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[Posted on November 30, 2007 - 4:30 PM]
A new startup incubator in Seattle is proposing to do for consumer products design what Y Combinator, TechStars, LaunchBox Digital and others are doing for software and digital media. Slipstream...

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[Posted on November 30, 2007 - 3:51 PM]
The rivalry between the East Coast and West Coast has been played out in rap music, sports, culture and just about everything else that bears comparison. Now, in a post...

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[Posted on November 30, 2007 - 1:20 PM]
Connecting U.S. angel investors with their overseas counterparts could boost deal flow and broaden the reach of angel networks everywhere, says Marianne Hudson, executive director of the Angel Capital Association....

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[Posted on November 29, 2007 - 1:48 PM]
Chemicals startup Allylix Inc. has raised a $3.3 million investment round from investors including the Tech Coast Angels, Life Science Angels, Bluegrass Angels, Pasadena Angels and Tate & Lyle Ventures,...

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[Posted on November 29, 2007 - 12:03 PM]
  Investments in startups are risky and generally illiquid for years, which is why those who put money into early-stage companies must meet the standards set by the U.S. Securities...

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[Posted on November 28, 2007 - 5:15 PM]
Pluck Corp. on Wednesday said it would link the startup's mainstream media customers to social networks such as Facebook Inc. and MySpace.com. Pluck CEO Dave Panos says the service allows...

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[Posted on November 28, 2007 - 1:43 PM]
A master's candidate at the University of Ottawa has created an algorithm that searches for images based on the picture itself, rather than the words that describe it, the conventional...

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[Posted on November 27, 2007 - 5:08 PM]
When early-stage investment firm Sevin Rosen said last year that it wouldn't raise another fund because the venture model was broken, industry watchers decided the sky was falling. Naysayers pointed...

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[Posted on November 27, 2007 - 4:31 PM]
When I think of cleantech deals, I think large, capital-intensive startups that generally have a lot of technology risk as well as some regulatory risk. I don't think of angels....

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[Posted on November 26, 2007 - 12:01 PM]
A recent story in Portfolio profiles 19-year-old Jared Kim, who's in line to receive $500,000 in funding for his Web 2.0 startup. Meanwhile, I recently met 16-year-old Cory Levy of...

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[Posted on November 26, 2007 - 11:52 AM]
Eircom Ltd., an Irish Internet service and content provider, has announced a Web Innovation Fund valued at €100,000 ($148,000) annually. The initiative aims to provide entrepreneurs with funding, business support...

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[Posted on November 26, 2007 - 11:17 AM]
University of Michigan licensee Arbor Photonics LLC has received $85,000 in seed funding from the Frankel Commercialization Fund and $115,000 from RPM Ventures. The startup, which licensed technology from the...

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[Posted on November 21, 2007 - 3:40 PM]
It's a given that fund size affects the ability of a venture capital firm to do early-stage deals. The bigger the fund, the harder it is to invest small sums...

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[Posted on November 20, 2007 - 5:22 PM]
Delving deeper into seed and other early-stage deals requires a more precise understanding of what such terms really mean. For instance, what constitutes a seed round? With angels increasingly participating...

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[Posted on November 20, 2007 - 3:50 PM]
Amateur sports team planning site TeamPages Inc.has raised $477,000 in first-round financing from Burda Digital Ventures and several angels. What's interesting is how forfeiting soccer matches led the founders to...

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[Posted on November 19, 2007 - 3:53 PM]
  Paul Graham, the outspoken founder of Y Combinator and one of the gurus du jour for the startup set, has crossed the pond, and promptly spat on the other...

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[Posted on November 19, 2007 - 3:07 PM]
Enterprise software has never been sexy, but it used to pay the bills. Newly launched  management software product Paglo is changing that assumption by offering a free version of its...

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[Posted on November 19, 2007 - 10:54 AM]
Here's a humorous, but fundamentally true, reminder that no matter how superb an entrepreneur's ideas and skills, raising money often depends on (surprise!) who you know. The chart, from Lancaster...

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[Posted on November 16, 2007 - 4:42 PM]
Business plan competitions and pitch contests were once fairly rare, and insignificant, events. No longer. As the costs of starting and running a profitable technology business decline, such contests can...

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[Posted on November 15, 2007 - 5:37 PM]
As universities get more serious about tech transfer and private capital chases later-stage deals, several U.S. states are helping set up pools of seed money. Oregon recently established a tax...

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[Posted on November 15, 2007 - 12:45 PM]
A team of entrepreneurs hoping to seed more startups has done it again. Following in the footsteps of accelerator programs such as Y Combinator and TechStars, former executives from IAC/InteractiveCorp,...

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[Posted on November 14, 2007 - 4:19 PM]
I understand the struggle entrepreneurs face when trying to name their fledgling enterprises. First, it must have an available domain name. That knocks out a lot of obvious choices, including...

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[Posted on November 14, 2007 - 2:59 PM]