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Confessions Of A VC: Crap – Why I Passed On Uber’s Seed Round

InfoChachkie

Two hundred and fifty thousand would have netted my firm more than one billion dollars. The Billion Dollar Email. Our mutual friend mentioned to me over breakfast during the late summer of 2010 that Uber was raising a seed funding round. Nope, that’s not a typo. Note: I am not disclosing my friend's identity. Sounds familiar.

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5 Reasons Why Businesses Still Love Microsoft

Tech Zulu Event

Every second, a copy of MS Office 2010 is sold, and a large number of those go towards corporate use. Over 73% of large businesses in North America use Microsoft Exchange Server as their primary email system. Kinect for Xbox 360, released in November of 2010, sold 8 million units in the first 60 days of its release.

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TechZulu Partners with meebo!

Tech Zulu Event

You can post TechZulu content directly to Facebook, Twitter, email or IM. A few sponsorship spots still available for early 2010 events: TechZulu still has a few slots open for our early 2010 events for our large diverse audience — social media users, venture capitalist, PR people, developers, bloggers, Hollywood entertainment and many more.

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Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles

SoCal Delicious

Los Angeles By: Laura Rich February 26, 2010 It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. 1 2 3 next › last » February 2010 login or register to post comments Print Email Newsletters Browse current issue › Subscribe to Fast Company › Digg StumbleUpon Facebook Buzz Up!

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5 Flocks Of Investors Looking For An Enticing Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

It won’t help your case or your workload to do an email blast and follow-up with 250,000 members around the world. It was founded back in 2010 by Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi of Venture Hacks , which is also a great place to visit for startup advice. Examples of some leaders in this space include Ron Conway , Mike Maples, Jr. ,

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Samsung Galaxy S Review

Tech Zulu Event

Integrates SMS, Social Network Services, email, and calendar accounts. The on board web browser made it easy to surf the net. The word is that the Samsung I9000 Galaxy S will have the update around August 2010. WVGA(480×800) 16M SUPER AMOLED. mDNIe(Mobile Digital Natural Image engine). ECLAIR) / ANDROID MARKET. SOCIAL HUB.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Be Best at Something

Frank Addante

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! We focused on proving that StrongMail is the best way to get email reliably delivered to the Inbox.

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