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No Bubble Here: VCs Invest $29.41B
via GigaOM by Stacey Higginbotham on January 18, 2008
Slow and steady wins the race. Given the VC industry’s penchant for hockey-stick growth charts, it’s far from their slogan, but when it comes to a slow annual growth in funding data, it’s a welcome sign. The PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree
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More Pressure on Yahoo From Wall St.
via John Battelle's Searchblog by (author unknown) on January 19, 2008
Yahoo's Ripe for Shake-Up from the WSJ's "Breaking Views" column is quite a read. It argues that the sums of Yahoo's parts, in particular its holdings in Yahoo Japan and Alibaba, which combine for more than a third of Yahoo's overall market cap, should be spun off, as should its search business (I've argued
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The 5 Barriers to Success Series — Part 1: Lack of Significance
via Skelliewag.org by skellie on January 19, 2008
Photo by FrabuleuseEach weekend for the next five weeks I’ll be posting about one of the 5 barriers to success. If your blog is growing too slowly, if you’re rarely receiving
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TechStars 2008 Applications Now Open
via TechCrunch by Duncan Riley on January 19, 2008
Startup fund/incubator TechStars is now accepting applications for its 2008 intake (see our coverage of them a year ago).TechStars offers
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iPhone goes corporate: AT&T announces business plan
via Engadget by Thomas Ricker on January 20, 2008
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louisgray.com Debuts at #92 on TechMeme Leaderboard
via louisgray.com by louisgray on January 20, 2008
I only mention this because it may not ever happen again. :-)Source: http://www.techmeme.com/lb at 11:45 p.m. Pacific on January 20th.You know the stat is screwy when I've managed to top well-respected folks like
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Will We See Delicious 2.0 This Week?
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on January 20, 2008
It’s been four and a half months since Yahoo first previewed Delicious
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Nokia To Invest In Facebook?
via ReadBurner | Most Recent | English by (author unknown) on January 20, 2008
It looks like Europe is in love with Facebook…First the Samwer Brothers invested in the company, and now reports that Nokia is joining the round, too. Paid Content is quoting sources that claim that Facebook and Nokia may be close to a deal which sees Facebook offered on Nokia phones as a default and in return Nokia may take a stake in Facebook.On the content side, offering a Nokia mobil
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Is 3i pulling out of early stage tech startups?
via TechCrunch UK by Mike Butcher on January 20, 2008
What’s going on at major venture capital firm 3i? Several whispers are reaching me that the VC group is planning to pull out of backing early stage Web ventures. A source who ought to know tells me they’ve heard such talk “from folk within 3i. At the end of ’07 they were trying to figure out where the VC team’s leadership would fit in the rest of the organisation, etc but I believe an
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