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Ranker Takes $2M For Expansion Efforts

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Los Angeles-based Ranker , the online site which lets users rank, view, vote, and share their opinions on a wide range of topics, announced today that it has raised $2M in a follow on investment round. media social opinion voting crowd ranking capital venture ranker' READ MORE>>.

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2011 May be the Year of the IPO for Social Media

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Draper III, in his new book titled “ The Startup Game.” According to Draper, in addition to the above Rule Number One, there are many other questions that need to be answered before a CEO should recommend to the board that it is time for an IPO: Do you really need the money? False starts in this direction can be disastrous.

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MTV Buys Social Project

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According to MTV Networks, which is a division of Viacom, the acquisition will allow the firm to accelerate its introduction of its Flux social media platform across its portfolio. Social Project is behind the development of Flux, software which allows web publishers to create their own social networking web sites.

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500 Startups Presents Bitcoinference

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Bitcoin has had a rough start to the year (to say the least) – with a never-ending news feed consisting of massive bankruptcy , scandal stories, and car chase media fiascos. Zeroblock , the highly successful mobile and web app was recently acquired by the world’s most popular Bitcoin site and online wallet, Blockchain.info.

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Off To SXSW, Our Schedule, And A Special Thanks

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A huge thanks goes out to the Social Media ClubHouse (SMCH3) for helping put this all together. Make sure to checkout the updated SMCH3 site as they have tons of great info. WillYouTrend.com is a site set out on the mission to inspire us all to be great, influential people. Media Temple hosts websites. Big and Small.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 3

Both Sides of the Table

Tynt Multimedia “Online tool that allows content sites to control copy-paste activity on their web sites.&# For starters I LOVE the idea for this product. Investors: Helion Venture Partners (Ashish Gupta), Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Nexus Venture Partners. 5.0mm in Series C. 7.5mm in Series C.

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TechZulu Partners with meebo!

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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. is funded by: Y Combinator, Alsop Louie Partners and Draper Associates.

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