Posts Tagged ‘Funding’

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!

This item was filled under [ Entrepreneurship, Funding, General, Internet Entrepreneurship ]

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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Google Ventures is Ready To Fund Your Startup

This item was filled under [ Business Development, Entrepreneurship, Funding, Google, News ]

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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Twitter Will Start To Earn Money, But Not Yet…

This item was filled under [ Business Development, News, Social Networking, Web 2.0 ]

twitter_logo_125x29After the dot-com (Web 1.0) bust, financing a web site wasn’t easy. But when we met Web 2.0, the Internet usage started to grow rapidly and investors started to become interested in investing web projects, again. Theorically, a business …

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LinkedIn is Growing So Fast – Has Reached Value of $1 Billion

This item was filled under [ Marketing, Social Networking, Strategy, Web 2.0, Web 3.0 ]

In this post, we’ll take a look at LinkedIn’ s excellent growth but firstly let’s talk a few about ‘Business Social Networking’ .

Day to day, social networking becomes more important for us. Organizations that want to manage partnerships …

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