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.App/Ads Gets A Makeover and $1.8 Million

Imagine if you walked into a used car dealership and knew exactly how much the dealer was skimming off your purchase. I don’t want to draw a parallel between used car sales and the mobile ad marketplace, but it’s an industry, like many, that could use more transparency. Burstly, an ad manager service, wants to [...]

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Tue, March 30 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Los Angeles Mentorship Program Launchpad LA Opens Applications For Its Second Session

Silicon Valley has long been heralded as the Mecca for startups, but it isn’t the only city in California to give rise to promising tech companies.
Los Angeles has a growing startup community, and is home to startups like DocStoc and a few much larger businesses, like MySpace and CitySearch. One program looking to [...]

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Thu, March 18 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

TheFunded Ranks The Most Loved VCs Of 2009

Some VCs are getting an early Valentine’s Day gift fromTheFunded, the site where CEOs rate venture capitalists and their firms. Below you will find the top-ranked individual VCs, as determined by their ratings in 2009. What makes this ranking particularly useful to entrepreneurs is that it is ratings by other CEOs, often CEOs [...]

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Tue, February 2 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Guest Post: The Yo-Yo Life of a Tech Entrepreneur

This is a guest post by Mark Suster, a 2x entrepreneur who has gone to the Dark Side of VC. He started his first company in 1999 and was headquartered in London, leaving in 2005 and selling to a publicly traded French services company. He founded his second company in Palo Alto [...]

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Sun, January 31 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments