Dow Jones Venture Source released its quarterly report on the state of venture capital, including data on number of VC deals, funds raised, M&As and IPOs in the technology sector. According to the report, U.S.-based companies raised $6 billion from… Read more ›
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Many companies worry about the commoditization of their offerings and their inability to justify premium pricing–but if you figure out how to take care of your customers’ “dead squirrels,” you’re golden. Read more from Fast Company.
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Nasscom, the IT industry lobby, is aiming to join the dots in India’s start-up scenario. It plans to collaborate with a host of incubators and start-up accelerators to strengthen support for technology start-ups in the country. Over the last few… Read more ›
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MetricsHub was one of 10 companies awarded $20,000 by VC fund TechStars in the Microsoft Accelerator 2012 program, which is an incubator for startups with ideas for Kinect and Azure. Recipients also get support in the form of free hosting… Read more ›
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This post is for everyone who thinks venture capital is an easy business. I’d like to dispel that notion. Here are short term and long term returns for the venture capital business over the past ten years compared to the… Read more ›
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Budget 2013 has started on a good note for startups. Funds provided by corporates to business incubators located in academic institutes will be considered as part of their corporate social responsibility (CSR). Such incubators, which are mostly set up in… Read more ›
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For those who came in late, Kickstarter is a site for startups to raise funds. Post your ideas on Kickstarter and let individuals fund your project. A predictive model from machine learning service BigML claims it can help predict whether… Read more ›
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Now, Dell is on the verge of making one of the biggest investments of his life. The 47-year-old billionaire and his private equity backers are locked in talks to acquire Dell, the company he started with $1,000 as a teenager… Read more ›
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The median size of angel deals rose to $640,000 in the third quarter of last year — a five-quarter high — as startups looked for more runway amid a bottleneck for Series A rounds. Silicon Valley Bank partnered with data… Read more ›
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ProfitBricks, a global cloud infrastructure provider, has big ambitions despite not yet having widespread name recognition. The Boston-based infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) company this week announced the launch of a foundation program for the startup community. Read more: http://medcitynews.com/2012/12/amazon-competitor-profitbricks-targets-startups-with-free-cloud-server-for-1-year/#ixzz2FI78NQCX
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