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Instant Billion! Facebook Acquires Instagram for Big Bones

April 10, 2012

By Matt Gallagher, Red Herring Facebook has acquired Instagram for a jaw dropping billion dollars in cash and stock, impressive bones for a two year old startup that previously had little to…

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Venture Capital Fundraising Dips 35% in Q1, Yet Exit Climate Strong

April 10, 2012

Venture capital fundraising dipped 35 percent in the first quarter from a year before, raising $4.9 billion, according to Thompson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association. Forty-two firms raised money, a…

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Dow Jones: Q1 2012 Most Active IPO Quarter Since 2007

April 2, 2012

The first quarter of 2012 rang the bell like Wall St. was getting back to business. Dow Jones Venture Source recently released a report that showed Q1 of 2012 as the most…

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Seed Funding Slowly Sprouting

March 26, 2012

Seed funding continues to sprout, but the growth is slow, according to a recent report from Fenwick & West, a Silicon Valley law firm. And while companies face significant hurdles in raising…

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DST Cooking Up $1 B Tech Fund from $50 M in Facebook Stock

March 26, 2012

Digital Sky Technologies, an early investor in Facebook, is currently cooking up a $1 billion tech fund, with plenty of incentives to get other investors to show up for the potluck, according…

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SkinScan’s App Uses Fractals to Identify Skin Cancer

March 22, 2012

One Click Detects Cancer Worried that glaring mole you spotted on your morning commute might be cancerous? With SkinScan’s app and an iPhone, you could have a pretty good answer in one…

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Following 2010’s Slump, Israeli VCs Raised $796M in 2011

March 22, 2012

Half of All Israeli Deals Come from Foreign Funds Following a lackluster year in which Israeli VC funds raised virtually no capital, the sector returned in 2011 to raised $796 million, according…

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14 Million New Jobs to Land from The Cloud by 2015

March 7, 2012

Cloud-based services will create 14 million new jobs by 2015, a recent study commissioned by Microsoft in collaboration with the research firm IDC predicts. Though half of those jobs will be in…

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IBM SmartCamp: Innovation Through Collaboration

March 7, 2012

This Year’s IBM’s SmartCamp Gathers the Hottest Startups Forget capture the flag. Startup campers at IBM’s SmartCamp play nab the investment dollar. Designed to encourage global innovation, SmartCamp connects the hottest startups…

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Perfecting the “Pitch”

February 17, 2012

By Igor Sill Virtually all of the start-up presentations I see given by first time entrepreneurs fall well short of their intended goal, getting funded. Essentially, these presentations are primarily nothing more…

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