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Ghost appears with new funding, marketplace to match buyers with unsold products

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million in new funding for its predictive inventory recommendation platform, joining other similar companies, including Zippedi and Inventa. The company raised $5 million in equity last November from Equal Ventures and Eniac to give it $28 million in total equity and debt funding. Last week, Syrup Tech raised $6.3

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Luna DNA, Led By Illumina Vets, Raises $2M For Blockchain Startup

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San Diego-based Luna DNA , a new genomic information startup based on the Blockchain protocol, and led by veterans of Illumina, sas it has raised $2M in a seed funding round. According to Luna DNA, the funding came from individual investors and former executives from DNA sequencing equipment developer Illumina.

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8 Types of Aspiring Entrepreneurs Who Will Not Start

Startup Professionals Musings

With the cost of entry to be an entrepreneur so low today, the common excuse of “lack of funding” doesn’t get much sympathy from me. People can build great ecommerce sites with free tools, smartphone apps in their spare time and use crowdfunding to bypass the dreaded angel funding and venture capital penalties.

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7 Ways Every Entrepreneur Should Evaluate A New Idea

Startup Professionals Musings

The reality is that I can’t judge any idea in your context, because I don’t know your passions, knowledge base, and experiences. Take a realistic view of your ability to assemble the necessary funding, and attract the right people. The right person can make any idea a business success, and the wrong one will always struggle.

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8 Friends Who Mean Well But Never Start New Ventures

Startup Professionals Musings

With the cost of entry to be an entrepreneur so low today, the common excuse of “lack of funding” doesn’t get much sympathy from me. People can build great ecommerce sites with free tools, smartphone apps in their spare time and use crowdfunding to bypass the dreaded angel funding and venture capital penalties.

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Bestofmedia Buys Computing.net

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Computing.NET offers online tutorials, knowledge bases and other information for both computer users and It professionals. Bestofmedia Group is backed by Index Ventures with $35M in funding; the firm's other publications also include Tom's Hardware and Tom's Games. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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These 8 Groups of People Will Never Start a Business

Startup Professionals Musings

With the cost of entry to be an entrepreneur so low today, the common excuse of “lack of funding” doesn’t get much sympathy from me. People can build great ecommerce sites with free tools, smartphone apps in their spare time and use crowdfunding to bypass the dreaded angel funding and venture capital penalties.

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