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Geni Connects With Facebook

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Hollywood-based Geni , the venture-backed firm which has developed an online, Web 2.0-style style genealogy and social networking web sites for families, has connected the company's service with the popular Facebook social networking web site. READ MORE>>.

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Aaron Fyke, Thin Line Capital: The Second Wave Of Cleantech Investing

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There's a new opportunity in clean technology investments, according to venture capitalist Aaron Fyke , the head of a new, Pasadena-based venture capital investment fund, Thin Line Capital (www.thinlinecapital.com). Talk about the new firm and the new fund? In 2007, the cleantech excitement was in full swing.

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Why The Growth Of The Internet Is Driving EdgeCast's Revenues

socalTECH

We started the company in the fall of 2006, launched in 2007, and have been offering our services to all kinds of mission critical websites since then. I think that's what is the main foundational element of a Web 2.0 We're privately funded today, with some equity from Menlo Ventures and Steamboat Ventures.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

Mostly you read about fundings, product releases, big valuations, and M&A. It was 2007. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0, Let’s say you became a partner in a VC fund in 1995 and started investing heavily in 1997-99. So readers of tech journals gain a bias of the chances of success.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

Mostly you read about fundings, product releases, big valuations, and M&A. It was 2007. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0, Let’s say you became a partner in a VC fund in 1995 and started investing heavily in 1997-99. So readers of tech journals gain a bias of the chances of success.

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INNOVATION - A Scientist's Perspective

AeA Los Angeles Council

The National Science Foundation mainly funds professors to do research. Government-owned venture capital funds, like the intelligence community's In-Q-Tel ( [link] ) or the USDA's former AARC may be a great hybrid strategy (government-owned, private appearance). Sylvester Reyes (D-TX), which is the STEM Promotion Act of 2007.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Stay Positive

Frank Addante

. ► March (1) Office 2.0: Our competition was well funded with many millions of dollars, well armed with hundreds of employees and far down the path. We had a few wooden desks and a desktop computer that served as my personal workstation, our web server and our ad server. Where's Jack Bauer? But, do it.

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