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Should Startups Announce Their Funding?

Both Sides of the Table

Understanding “The Funding Angle” I sit at enough board meetings to hear conflicting advice given to entrepreneurs about how to handle PR and announcements at startups. Is Funding a Worthy Announcement? There are reasons you may delay funding announcement but rarely reasons not to announce. But trust me on this.

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Kim Kardashian becomes a private equity dealmaker in collab with ex-Carlyle partner

TechCrunch LA

Kardashian is launching private equity firm SKKY Partners in conjunction with ex-Carlyle consumer head Jay Sammons to invest in business across consumer products, hospitality, luxury, digital commerce and media, the Wall Street Journal first reported. Jenner will be joining SKKY as a partner, the Journal reported.

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FaceCake Gets Funding For Virtual Dressing Rooms

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Calabasas-based FaceCake Marketing Technologies , a developer of 3-D, virtual dressing room technology, has raised a round of funding from XG Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture firm whose founders are former Google execs. Amount of the funding was not disclosed.

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How This Entrepreneur Raised $28,000 Using Airbnb to Fund Her Startup

Both Sides of the Table

Tracy is knowledgeable enough to talk tech and swap design & product stories with other founders, but she realized early that networking amongst this group and reading and writing in their journals would not bring her more customers. So Tracy began keeping a blog about … (what else?)

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Should You Bother Targeting the Tech Blogs for Your PR Campaigns?

Both Sides of the Table

The start of this series was, Should Your Startup Announce Funding ? It’s also important for recruiting, fund raising, business development and even company morale. But I also need to address the other side of my customer base – the people who fund VCs (they are called LPs). I will put the full list of posts here.

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New Game Studio Theorycraft Announces $37.5 Million In Funding

L.A. Business Journal

million to fund development of its first title. Fledgling video game studio Theorycraft Games Inc. announced March 4 that it had hauled in an impressive $37.5

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Upfront Ventures Raises $400 Million Fund

L.A. Business Journal

Santa Monica-based investment firm Upfront Ventures raised a $400 million fund, its sixth since the company's launch in 1996.