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The World's 50 Most Innovative Companies (Top 10 Web/Internet) [Zaarly]
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DailyWorth Teams Up With Mint.com To Help Women Turn Financial Advice Into Action
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Tout App Adds Analytics To Your Email Management
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Tout Wants to Tame Your Inbox
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Trigger Gets $1M From SV Angel, Paul Graham And Others To Make Cross-Platform Mobile Development Effortless
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InboundScore ranks incoming website sales leads intelligently (exclusive) [InboxQ]
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DailyWorth Grabs $2 Million To Bring Quality Financial Advice To Women — Via The Inbox
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New Year's Resolution: Get Better At Email [Toutapp]
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See How Many People Replied to Your Emails This Year [Toutapp]
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Mobile Game Rewards Go Mass With Kiip's Launch Of 'Swarm' Flash Tournaments
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Startup Aims to Help Brazilians Improve English Skills [Colingo]
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Building A Company In Brazil; An American Entrepreneur’s Perspective [Colingo]
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30 Under 30: Tracks.by's Founders On How To Get 30 Million Facebook Fans
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Tiny Review iPhone app makes everyday photos into special moments (exclusive)
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Life360′s Family Safety App Grabs $3.5 Million Series A
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Getaround Brings Car-Sharing To Oregon With Federal Grant
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Health Conscious Mom Commerce Site Ecomom Raises A Healthy $4 Million
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ToutApp Brings Sanity To Repetitive Outgoing Emails
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Seven Essential Apps for Your Sales Team [Toutapp]
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Happiness Pays Off With Kiip
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Kiip and GameSalad integrate ad-based rewards directly into game development platform
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Enterprise SEO Platform Ginzametrics Raises US$1.3 Million From 500 Startups, Venture51, And A Group Of Star Investors
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It's 10 a.m. Here's How to Find Your Workers. [doubledutch]
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LawPivot Expands Q&A Site For Startup Legal Advice Nationwide
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LaunchRock Gets $800K In Funding, Launches
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ToutApp Launches iOS App To Let You Track Email Views And Clicks (And More) On The Go
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Repetitive email solution ToutApp adds Gmail integration and offers more for free
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3 New Time-Saving Technologies [Manpacks]
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Agents of Corporate Change [Zaarly]
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Location safety app Life360 surges past 5M families
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Humanoid puts human brainpower to work in the cloud
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With Backing From Google Ventures, Humanoid Brings Robot Supervision To Crowdsourced Tasks
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Graphic.ly Founder on Startup Life, Internet Fame & Getting Sober
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Zaarly goes big: $14.1M funding, Meg Whitman joins board
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Local Marketplace And Minion-Finder Zaarly Raises $14.1 Million, Meg Whitman Joins Board
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10 Apps That Show Off the iPhone 4S's New Features
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How Two Teenagers Broke In To Silicon Valley - And The Music Industry [Tracks.by]
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Q&A Firm Maps Twitter Experts [InboxQ]
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Would you tell Mom about your debt? [DailyWorth]
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Parentology: Halloween costumes swapped or sold used [EcoMom]
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LaunchRock: A Startup That Helps Other Startups Hype Themselves
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Tapping into Chicago Ideas Week on your Smartphone: [DoubleDutch]
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Life360 is the app that Apple’s Find my Friends should have been
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Kiip Fast-Tracks High Scores to Guinness Book Fame
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Play a Mobile Game, Set a Guinness World Record [kiip]
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INFOGRAPHIC: Which Twitter Users Get Asked The Most Questions? [InboxQ]
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Kiip Gives Users Real-World Prizes For Mobile Game Achievements [VIDEO]
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Shervin Pishevar Announces $20 Million Menlo Ventures “Talent Fund” [Tracksby]
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HYVE check-ins encourage accountability, reduce email [doubledutch]
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What's Next For The Check-In? [Life360]
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Meet 5 stand out startups from this year’s Pitch ’11 event [WebMynd]
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The Talk Market CEO on Fox Business [Videolicious]
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Car Rental Marketplace Getaround Gets Around $3.4 Million
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Demo Day's Coolest Ideas [launchrock / Tout]
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3 Mobile Apps Poised to Change the Consumer/Brand Relationship [kiip]
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Car-sharing services changing how people get around [Getaround]
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Google Ventures-Backed LawPivot Opens Legal Q&A Platform To The Public
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Technology offers 50 ways to leave your lawyer [LawPivot]
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Mobile Has The Opportunity To Re-Think The Ad [kiip]
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eToro chosen as Best Social Trading Network, Best Mobile Trading Platform, and Best Trading Software Provider
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The 20 Hot Silicon Valley Startups You Need To Watch [Getaround, Dekko & Speakergram]
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Room to Rent, via the Web [Getaround]
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Airbnb valued at $1.3bn after new funding [Getaround]
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White House Welcomes Top Young Entrepreneurs to Discuss Job Creation [Getaround]
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Hamilton: Boat sharing site rides peer-to-peer wave [Getaround]
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Dekko In A Box: Justin Timberlake Follows MySpace Investment With AR Tech Play
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Comic Con 2011: Digital Comics Celebrity Panel Tips and Batman Breakfast Secret Continue reading on Examiner.com Comic Con 2011: Digital Comics Celebrity Panel Tips and Batman Breakfast Secret - National Digital Entertainment
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13 Gmail Plugins You Should Try Right Now [Toutapp]
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TekTrak Unveils Mobile Tracking App for Samsung Android Devices Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/07/11/prweb8632944.DTL#ixzz1TFwMkInp
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Car-sharing idea gets around [Getaround]
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InboxQ And New “Campaign Configurator” Move To The Web
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New Approach to Ads in Games [kiip]
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Mainstream Location App Life360 Hits 3 Million Users: Here's Its Disruptive Plan
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Zaarly Crosses $1M In Jobs Posted, In Just Under A Month
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Tout takes $350k in its seed round
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ToutApp Adds An Intelligent Content Manager To Your Email Client
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Like+1 Turns Facebook Likes Into Google +1s [Webmynd]
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LawPivot's Jay Mandal, Startup Counsel
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How To Embed Practically Anything On Your Blog or Website [Embedly]
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Embedly Raises Another $450K, Launches One API To Rule All Embeds
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LawPivot Expands Reach to Spread Knowledge as a Service
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Users Say They’re More Likely To Buy If A Business Answers Their Question On Twitter [inboxQ]
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tektrak named victor of Vator Splash LA (May)
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And The Winner Of TechCrunch Disrupt NYC Is…Getaround
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Zaarly Launches Realtime, Local Marketplace To The Public
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Introducing Your TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield Finalists [Getaround]
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Introducing Your TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield Finalists [BillGuard]
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Getaround, The AirBnb For Cars, Finally Launches
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BillGuard Will Track Hidden Fees And Billing Errors On Credit Card Bill
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LawPivot Takes Its Q&A Legal Advice Site Nationwide
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Seesmic Adds InboxQ's Twitter Question Finder
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Videolicious For The iPhone Helps You Edit Quality Videos, Fast
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Lightbank Leads $1.2 Million Round In Enterprise Mobile Startup DoubleDutch
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4 Hot Online Ad Companies to Put on Your Watch List
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The Unlit Social Graph - DoubleDutch
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In-Game Ad Startup Kiip Raises $4 Million From Hummer Winblad, Others
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The Seven Most Interesting Startups At 500 Startups Demo Day (TCTV)
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Life360 Wins as Smartphones Become Family Utilities
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GetAround Is The AirBnB For Car Rentals
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Kiip Gives Users Real-World Prizes For Mobile Game Achievements [VIDEO]
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TekTrak: Mobile Location App Helps Reunite A Family After The Japanese Earthquake
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Former Flickr Product Chief Lands At Bitly
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5 great gadgets for small business - InboxQ
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LaunchRock And Vencorps Want To Give $30K To The “Best” Startups #SXSW
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Hungover At SXSW? Use Zaarly To Get Your Gatorade And Advil
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LawPivot lawyers up from Apple
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LawPivot Seeks To Kill (Well, Slash) Startup Lawyer Fees
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Mitch Kapor Leads $600,000 Angel Round In Video Transcription Startup SpeakerText
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Social Media Flips the Lawyer System? [LawPivot]
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DailyWorth Raises $850K To Become The Daily Candy For Personal Finance
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WeGame Hopes To Take On Steam With Online Game Store
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ADstruc, A Marketplace For Outdoor Advertising, Closes $1.1 Million Series A Round
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GiveForward Raises $500K To Be The Kickstarter For Medical Expenses
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eToro Adds $2.4 Million To The Coffers: “Zynga For Real Men”
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Assistly raises $3M to manage customer complaints on Twitter and such
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Crowdsourcing and Atomized Employment [Foodzie]
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Stipple Secures $2 Million to Build Photo Tagging Tools for Publishers
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Life360′s Family Safety App Embraces The Check-In, Then Surges
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Assistly Extends Customer Service to Facebook Walls
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Digital Comic Startup Graphic.ly Draws Up $3 Million To Take 2011 “Beyond The Page”
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Look Out Quora, InboxQ Takes Q&A Off-Site And On To Twitter
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E-Receipts Startup Seamless Receipts Raises $1.5 Million
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Shopping Startup EcoMom raises $2M from Facebook Exec and Others
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BillGuard Raises $3M To Track Hidden Fees, Billing Errors On Credit Card Bills
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eToro: Who Doesn’t Want A little Social Mixed With Commodities Trading?
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TweetDeck Acquired by Ubermedia: What Are the Implications for the Twitter Ecosystem?
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Succeeding at Bringing Big Business to Big Brands via World's Biggest Social Network, CEO Mike Lazerow Knows It's Good to Be Facebook's Buddy
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TechStars Launches Ten New Startups In Seattle
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Yahoo Finance Adds Curated Stock Conversations From StockTwits
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Buddy Media Poaches A Googler
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The Odds of Picking the Next Apple
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LaunchRock, The Most Meta Startup Ever, Builds Viral Launch Pages
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Facebook Marketing Platform Buddy Media Raises $23 Million
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BlogTalkRadio seizes on an overlooked market niche--and a new round of funding.
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Ticketmaster Rival Ticketfly Acquires Music Event Listing And Promotion Service Gigbot
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Ticketfly raises $3M to challenge Ticketmaster
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SpeakerText Automates And Crowdsources Video Transcripts (100 Beta Invites)
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10 Hot Startups to Watch [Ginzametrics]
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Lucky Magazine Creates Web Videos for Its Birthday [Videolicious]
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19 Year Old Kiip Founder Closes 300K Angel Round For Mobile In-Game Ad Startup
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GinzaMetrics Aims To Bring Simplicity To SEO Software
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True Ventures Invests In 19 Year Old Entrepreneur Brian Wong
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How LawPivot Could Disrupt the Legal Field
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Amazon Takes Equity Stake In DIY Shopping Site The Talk Market
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TekTrak Offers A Cheap Way To Make Sure You Never Lose Your iPhone
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Whoa, LAUNCH Prize Money Hits $169k!
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What you need to know about tech venture investing
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Life360′s Family Safety App Grabs $3.5 Million Series A
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Enterprise SEO Platform Ginzametrics Raises US$1.3 Million From 500 Startups, Venture51, And A Group Of Star Investors
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LaunchRock Gets $800K In Funding, Launches
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Local Marketplace Zaarly Raises $14 Million; Adds Meg Whitman as Director
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Design is becoming a competitive advantage for startups
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The 20 Hot Silicon Valley Startups You Need To Watch [Getaround, Dekko & Speakergram]
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Dekko In A Box: Justin Timberlake Follows MySpace Investment With AR Tech Play
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Smaller early-stage bets are better for founders & investors
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Brandon Zeuner and Ryan Swagar – Co-Founders of Venture51 Interview on IdeaMensch
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Tout takes $350k in its seed round
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Embedly Raises Another $450K, Launches One API To Rule All Embeds
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Angel investing changing overall, becoming faster-paced
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Appbackr Joins the Crowd
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Could Silicon Valley be the Next Playground for Investment Bankers with Imagination
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Kiip Keeps $4M
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Lightbank Leads $1.2 Million Round In Enterprise Mobile Startup DoubleDutch
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Investment Banks Could Be Silicon Valley’s New Best Friend, Says VC
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venture51 to Invest in Seed & Early Stage Companies, Other Funds
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Venture51 To Invest $20M Seed Fund In Start-Ups, Other VC Funds
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