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- Laptops Look Like Racecars - and Not in a Good Way
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- Likewise Software says Quest patent suit is without merit
- Four Minutes In The Morning
- Blink buys Blue Flavor
- Marketfish hooks $1.5 million
- Movie and TV streaming services - Amazon and Apple gearing up to take the market
- A $250M Start-Up Plan To Expand Emerging Radiation Treatment
- Former Leapfrog exec joins DreamBox Learning as CEO
- Stocktwits Interview
- Serious Questions For Super Angels
- Inner Fence takes on Square with new mobile Credit Card Reader
- Report: Mobile content revenue to triple to $3.5 billion in 2014
- Good Things Come To Venture Firms Who Wait - Even 13 Years
- Lawyer sues Avvo for libel after receiving poor online rating
- Converts versus equity deals
- Have We Reached The Software Patent Tipping Point?
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Posted: Thursday 2 September 2010
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Search company Inflection gets $30 million first round from Matrix Partners and Sutter Hill Ventures.
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Posted: Thursday 2 September 2010
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A new Windows PC comes covered with advertising stickers even though computer companies are trying to make their laptops beautiful. They ought to stop.
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Posted: Thursday 2 September 2010
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A new Windows PC comes covered with advertising stickers even though computer companies are trying to make their laptops beautiful. They ought to stop.
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Posted: Thursday 2 September 2010
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TechStars is coming to New York City. The first program runs from 1/10/11 to 4/8/11. Applications are open now. The NY mentor list is stunning and includes the following: Phin Barnes (First Round Capital), Alex Blum (KickApps), Matt Blumberg (Return Path), Brad Burnham (USV), Jeff Clavier, Dennis Crowley (FourSquare), Chris Dixon (Founder Collective), Roger Ehrenberg, [...]
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Posted: Wednesday 1 September 2010
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Likewise, an open source software company backed by Ignition Partners, Intel Capital and Trinity Ventures, said it planned to defend itself against the suit. "After a detailed review of the information available we believe that the charges are without merit and that the company is in a strong position to defend itself," the company said in a statement. "Unfortunately we cannot comment on additional details of the case at this time. Patent disputes have become a regular course of business in the software industry, especially for successful companies."
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Posted: Wednesday 1 September 2010
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Amy and I created a tradition about a decade ago we call "four minutes in the morning." We try to - fully clothed - spend four minutes together every morning 100% focused on each other. I'm an early bird - usually getting up around 5am regardless of the time zone I'm in (except on the [...]
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Posted: Wednesday 1 September 2010
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Blink Interactive, a Seattle-based Web design and usability testing company, has acquired Blue Flavor for an undisclosed price. As a result of the deal, Blue Flavor founder Nick Finck will join Blink Interactive as User Experience Director.
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Posted: Wednesday 1 September 2010
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Marketfish just landed an additional $1.5 million in venture financing, money that that fast-growing Seattle online marketing startup will use to grow sales, build out the platform and establish a new office in New York. The round -- led by Rustic Canyon and Accelerator Ventures -- comes about 10 months after the company closed a $2 million angel round.
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Posted: Wednesday 1 September 2010
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Last week I asked whether the TV and movie industry is ahead of the music industry in the race to build profitable streaming services. Today there is more news that suggests it is: Bloomberg reports that Apple is Said to plan Netflix service on new TV product - that would be a c$10 [...]
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Posted: Wednesday 1 September 2010
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Proton therapy, an emerging form of radiation treatment for cancer, is available at only 28 centers worldwide. A new company is looking to raise $250 million to expand access to the treatment.
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Posted: Wednesday 1 September 2010
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Dreambox Learning has hired Jessie Woolley-Wilson as its new CEO, an appointment that comes four months after the Bellevue online education startup sold out to an investment syndicate that included The Charter Fund and Netflix CEO Reed Hastings. Woolley-Wilson has spent the past two decades working in the online education field. Most recently, she served as president of K-12 at Blackboard Inc. Before that, she served as executive vice president of LeapFrog Enterprises and president of LeapFrog SchoolHouse.
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Posted: Wednesday 1 September 2010
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I did a Skype interview with Howard Lindzon last week. They put it up last night on Stocktwits.tv. I was tired and it shows. The whole thing is just under 20 mins. We talked about "the web is dead" and...
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Posted: Wednesday 1 September 2010
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Following is a post on super angels I wrote yesterday for PEHub. In the beginning, there were angel investors. And it was good. As individual angel investors made more and more investments, they became super angels. One day a super angel woke up and thought to himself, "Gosh, I could do a lot more investments [...]
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Posted: Wednesday 1 September 2010
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Square -- the San Francisco mobile payments startup -- has some high-profile backers (Vinod Khosla, Ron Conway) and entrepreneurs (Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey) behind it. But the company is facing some new competition from scrappy Seattle startup Inner Fence, which today is launching a rival technology that allows merchants to quickly swipe credit cards from an iPhone.
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Posted: Tuesday 31 August 2010
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Nearly everywhere you go people are talking about mobile apps, from gaming (Bejeweled) to music (Pandora) to video (Netflix). And now a new report from the research firm eMarketer indicates that consumers will be spending more money on mobile content applications in the coming years. Mobile content revenues will grow from $1.15 billion in 2009 to more than $3.53 billion in 2014, with mobile gaming leading the way at $1.5 billion in sales.
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Posted: Tuesday 31 August 2010
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It took 13 years for the earliest venture investors to exit Arcot Systems, which is selling to CA for $200 million. The deal shows that the 10 to 12-year lifespan of most venture funds is only a guess as to how long it could take to get cash back to limited partners.
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Posted: Tuesday 31 August 2010
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A Florida lawyer has sued Avvo for libel, arguing that the Seattle online attorney rating service published inaccurate information about him and engaged in a practice of blackmail in order to get him to participate on the site. Larry Joe Davis Jr., a St. Petersburg lawyer who has a 3.7 rating on Avvo, argues in the suit that the site inaccurately listed him as having a practice in the "employment/labor" area when in fact he specializes in health law. He also alleges that Avvo engaged in unfair acts of trade or commerce.
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Posted: Tuesday 31 August 2010
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There has been a debate going on the past few days over whether seed deals should be funded using equity or convertible notes (converts). Paul Graham kicked it off by noting that all the financings in the recent YC batch were converts. Prominent investors including Mark Suster and Seth Levine weighed in (I highly recommend [...]
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Posted: Monday 30 August 2010
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We've shifted into a new zone in the world of software patent stupidity. A few weeks ago, Oracle sued Google over a series of Java-related patents they got when they acquired Sun. Last week, Paul Allen sued 11 major software companies, including Google, over four patents that were granted to his now defunct Interval Research [...]
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Posted: Monday 30 August 2010
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In a guest column, venture capitalist Mark Suster says he fears economic trouble ahead and spells out what it could mean for venture capital and start-up companies.
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