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Tumblr(Blogging Platform) Records Over 10 Billion Posts Today

Tumblr, a microblogging and curation platform has reached its 10 billionth post today.Tumblr lets you share anything. Post text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos, from your browser, phone, desktop,…

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[Apply To Attend] 2011 Startup School

Are you a hacker who has thought about one day starting a startup? Have you already started it? Then you’re invited to a free, one-day startup school this October 29…

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Top 9 Mid-Week Startup Venture Deals

SARcode Bioscience, a firm developing treatments for inflammatory disease, raised $44M in a Series B financing round. The round was led by Sofinnova Ventures, and also included Rho Ventures, Alta…

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Sequoia Capital Leads $10 Million Series A Funding For MoboTap

MoboTap, the mobile technology developer behind the Dolphin Browser, today announced that it will receive $10 million in Series A funding round led by Sequoia Capital, with Matrix Partners also…

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Top 7 Startup Acquisitions Of The Week

Symantec Corp. announced that it has completed its acquisition of Clearwell Systems. The deal had originally been announced on May 19th. Clearwell was venture backed by DAG Ventures, Redpoint Ventures,…

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Evernote Secures $50 Million Round Led by Sequoia Capital

Evernote, the company that’s helping the world remember everything, has announced a new $50 million round of funding led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from Morgenthaler Ventures. The new funds…

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21 Things Your Startup SHOULD Copy From Airbnb

Airbnb a short term rentals company is a classic Silicon Valley story of bootstrapping, rejection and eventually success. Brian Chesky and his co-founder, Joe Gebbia, decided to start a company,…

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HubSpot Acquires Performable, A Marketing Automation Company

Three months after receiving a $32 million Series D financing round, led by Sequoia Capital, Google Ventures, and Salesforce.com, inbound marketing software company HubSpot has announced its acquisition of Performable.…

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30 of The Most Respected Venture Capitalists (Infographic)

The Top 30 with links to their Twitter Accounts Brad Feld Foundry Group James D. Robinson III RRE Ventures Peter Sinclair Leapfrog Ventures Mark Suster GRP Partners Howard Morgan First…

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Some of The Best Online Resources (Blogs, Articles, etc.) On Startups

Articles Andy Rachleff on Entrepreneurship from a VC perspective: http://iinnovate.blogspot.com/20… Eric Ries on Building a Lean Startup: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/e/… (more at http://www.startuplessonslearned…) Achieving Product-Market Fit (Horowitz): http://bhorowitz.com/2010/03/20/… Dave McClure’s, Startup Metrics…

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20 Companies Raised Over $480 Million In Funding This Week

Aquantia, a developer of 10GBASE-T PHY semiconductors, raised $21M in a Series E funding round. The funding came from LSI Corporation, New Enterprise Associates, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Greylock Partners, Pinnacle…

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Eventbrite Secures $50 million Series E Funding

Online events and ticketing site Eventbrite has announced that it has raised a $50 million Series E round of funding led by Tiger Global with participation from several other firms.…

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Africa Has The Mark Zuckerbergs BUT Lacks The Y Combinators

The lack of access to venture capital in Africa stalls the hopes and dreams of Africa’s rising tech stars. There are great developers and software entrepreneur hopefuls who work on…

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How Much Focus Should Startup Founders Place On Getting Acquired?

Early in my investment career, I had lunch with a Sequoia partner who explained to me some of the fundamentals of their investment strategy. One of them is that “good…

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Top 14 Venture Capital Firms

These venture firms have established themselves in the industry and are well connected. They have the track record of big consumer internet deals and potential for the future. Depending on…

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Sequoia Capital On Startups Revisited

* Start with zero-based budgeting. * Cutting deeper is the formula to survive, and this is an era of survival of the quickest. * Make sure you have one year’s…

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