Archive for the ‘Funding’ Category

Report: SecondMarket’s 10 Most-Watched Private Companies in Q1 2012

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SecondMarket is an SEC-registered alternative trading system for private company stock. SecondMarket just released its Q1 2012 report about the most popular privately-held or venture-backed companies on SecondMarket.

SecondMarket’s most popular stock is FaceBook’s.  After its long-waited IPO FaceBook will leave …

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Y Combinator Funded Startups Are Worth $4.7 Billion!

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Paul Graham is a well-known character in the startup world for his past successes and most recently, the launch of Y Combinator. In 1995, Graham and Robert Morris founded Viaweb, the first application service provider. Viaweb’s software, originally written …

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The Horse or the Jockey?


Many people who want to start their own businesses and many people who want to invest in others’ ideas search answer of this question: “Which is more important the idea or the entrepreneur?” .

In academic journals, this is …

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Google Ventures is Ready To Fund Your Startup

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google_ventures_logoGoogle finally launched its venture capital fund. Google Ventures welcomes startups from a broad range of industries; including consumer Internet, software, hardware, clean-tech, bio-tech and health care.

The FAQ of Google Ventures tells all the vision and targets of …

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5 Things To Start a Start-Up

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(This post is co-authored with Web2INC Magazine)

The most stressful phase of a business is its start-up phase. If starting a business was easy, everyone would do it! You need 5 things to create a successful business: Idea, …

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