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Try To Get At Least $2M Pre-Money In Seed Round Valuation
At today's roundtable we had some interesting companies and a lot of fundraising discussions, and I will review them shortly. Before I do, however, I want to talk about a thumb rule that I'd like to...
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Google Trumps Facebook On List Of In Demand Employers Among College Students
Google has had a tough time in the past couple months or so, being more or less being positioned by the media as a company that is in danger of losing its top talent to Facebook. Especially when the...
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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Survey Finds That, Yes, Valuations Are Up
The law firm Fenwick & West LLP has released its Third Quarter 2010 Silicon Valley Venture Capital Survey. The survey looks at the valuations and the terms of financing for over 100 technology...
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Australian Incubator StartMate Graduates Its First Class of Startups
StartMate, a new seed fund that has brought the Y Combinator-model of incubator program to Australia, has just graduated its first class of startups. StartMate’s three-month program offers mentorship...
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Foursquare Raising Money at $500 Million Valuation [REPORT]
Fast-growing location-based startup Foursquare may be looking to cash in on its cachet. It’s reported to be exploring a $20 million to $40 million funding round at a $500 million valuation. Citing...
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President Obama To Name Twitter CEO To Advisory Committee
Once again signaling his close ties with Silicon Valley, President Barack Obama plans to draft Twitter CEO Dick Costolo to his National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee. In a White House...
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Which Tech Giants Birth the Most Successful Startup Founders? [INFOGRAPHIC]
Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Facebook all compete for top talent. In doing so, they lure and acqui-hire the brightest minds in tech — who, unfortunately for them, later go on to trade these cushy jobs...
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How Silicon Valley’s Most-Connected Exec Does His Hiring
Auren Hoffman is the CEO of Rapleaf, a personal-data aggregator that has been the subject of a remarkable amount of controversy but is wildly useful as a data provider to must-see apps like Rapportive...
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Google Pays $100M for New California Office
The Googleplex is spreading with Google’s $100 million purchase of a 240,000 square-foot office center in Mountain View, Calif. The acquisition, reported in the Mercury News and confirmed by Google,...
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Editor’s note: Derek Andersen is the founder of Startup Grind, a 12-city event series growing around the world to help educate, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs. He’s also ex-Electronic Arts, the...
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