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Siemer Ventures Backs Ribbon

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Ribbon, the developer of a social commerce platform which lets users list items for sale, distribute that through their social networks like Facebook , and accept credit card payments--said today that it has raised $1.6M in a seed funding round.

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StackSocial Gets Seed Round

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The firm, headed by Josh Payne, develops a way for web publishers to integrate e-commerce into their websites. Hints of the funding came out earlier this month when the firm showed up on Siemer Ventures' list of portfolio companies. READ MORE>>.

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500 Startups Presents Bitcoinference

Tech Zulu Event

In light of a less than savory PR landscape, I saw this event to be an important call to attention to the developements towards the Bitcoin industry for 2014, as well as geographically important gathering of minds and enthusiasts in the space. He then dove into a keynote Q&A with Dan Held , developer of recently acquired Zeroblock LLC.

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Interview With Brian McCarthy, Dentistry.com

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To their credit, they were able to carve out an investment so we could develop this. They have a day job, running the existing business, and they then have to commit more time and effort into building Dentistry.com, to develop the technology, processes, and all we have to do. We are working with a team in Montevideo, Uruguay.

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Interview with Clark Benson, Ranker

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We also make some e-commerce revenue, because some people are ranking products, so we can make affiliate revenue or lead revenue on clicks on things like cars. Clark Benson: We raised money from Draper Fisher Jurvetson in Palo Alto, Rincon Ventures, and a number of angels. Most of that funding is going towards staffing up.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 3

Both Sides of the Table

Especially for their stage of development. Investors: Helion Venture Partners (Ashish Gupta), Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Nexus Venture Partners. They have done 3 startups in the customer support space and one that wasn’t. So these guys have both deep domain experience as well as tons of startup chops. 7.5mm in Series C.