Venture Capital articles

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  Glass Collective VC partnership to help startups get Google Glass apps funded

  By Sam Byford on April 10, 2013 09:39 pm + 61 comments

  Three venture capital funds have joined together to create an investment partnership aimed at Continue reading…

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  Viddy CEO out as Vine steals the video sharing spotlight

  By Ben Popper on February 5, 2013 10:38 am + 9 comments

  Back in April Viddy, a social video sharing app, was the number one service in the iPhone App Store Continue reading…

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  The false promise of online education

  By Amar Toor on February 1, 2013 06:45 am + 41 comments

  Proponents of online education have long branded it as a way to bring free knowledge to the masses, Continue reading…

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  Kickstarter is on pace to collect $1 billion in pledges this year

  By Ben Popper on January 9, 2013 09:08 am + 9 comments

  Back in April I predicted that Kickstarter would raise over $300 million in pledges in 2012, triple Continue reading…

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  Why Apple acquiring Color makes sense in Silicon Valley: the strange logic of the acqui-hire

  By Ben Popper on October 18, 2012 04:45 pm + 69 comments

  Color, a photo sharing app that launched in August of 2010, has the unpleasant distinction of having Continue reading…

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  $41 million can't buy success as Color app finally gives up (update: Color denies shutdown)

  By Ellis Hamburger on October 17, 2012 11:23 am + 90 comments

  Color Labs, the Palo Alto-based company that received $41 million in venture capital last year to Continue reading…

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  What went wrong at Hipstamatic?

  By Jeff Blagdon on October 13, 2012 11:16 pm + 46 comments

  Long before Facebook’s billion-dollar acquisition of photo sharing service Instagram, Hipstamatic Continue reading…

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  New startup fundraising rules will cause fraud, abuse, 'chaos,' say critics

  By Adrianne Jeffries on October 10, 2012 05:58 pm + 45 comments

  Startups tend to be discreet when they're raising money. Often it's because entrepreneurs are Continue reading…

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  GitHub raises $100 million in funding, plans for expanded enterprise sales

  By Dieter Bohn on July 9, 2012 09:46 pm + 10 comments

  The tech start-up and go-to code repository GitHub has announced that it has secured $100 million in Continue reading…

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  Reid Hoffman: 'your car will have more lines of code in it than LinkedIn does today'

  By Ben Popper on June 20, 2012 10:30 am + 43 comments

  Reid Hoffman is a Silicon Valley power player. He emerged at PayPal, where he was the first full Continue reading…