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There’s lots of motion in the ocean in the early-stage investing world. TechCrunch has a write-up on the companies that presented at Y Combinator’s demo day yesterday. I had several of my own thoughts as a startup founder. Read more »

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Rapportive this week announced $1 million in funding from a long list of angel and early stage investors including Dave McClure, Paul Buchheit and Jason Calacanis. The startup makes a Gmail plug-in that gives dynamic social web profile data about the people with whom you’re emailing. Read more »

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Y Combinator put on a tour de force Thursday in Mountain View, Calif. After five impressive years’ worth of molding fresh batches of startups, it packed 150-odd people with money into a room and schooled them in the art of giving its companies funding. Read more »

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Y Combinator is capitalizing on its formidable momentum to raise an $8.25 million fund for its startup program. Meanwhile, it said today that 74 percent of the 27 companies from its latest class are either profitable or have received commitments for outside funding. Read more »

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A long list of investors putting money in a jumbo-seed round earlier than ever is not uncommon these days. It’s not that there’s too few investments driving up demand; to the contrary, there are many young companies taking lots of money from lots of investors. Read more »

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Execution in the presence of too much capital, too little capital, or poorly applied capital defines, among other things, the relationship between a startup and its investors. Together, the concepts of slow capital and capital discipline provide a framework for managing this crucial relationship. Read more »

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Managing group expenses can be a messy thing. Pestering people to pay up is a chafe, and creating a joint bank account takes a lot of work. To build an alternative solution, WePay has raised a $1.65 million seed round from August Capital and angels. Read more »

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Video production company PixelFish announced today that it has acquired recently-shut down online video editing/white-label video company Eyespot. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded and angel-funded in 2006, the Torrance, Calif.-based PixelFish has 15 employees and is similar to TurnHere, offering to create […] Read more »

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Seems everyone’s talking about netbooks these days. So I will, too since I’ve seen so much punditry of late that says Apple can’t charge their usual prices anymore, the economy is in the dumps, netbooks rule, Apple can’t ignore the market, etc.  Yes, we see a […] Read more »

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This week I was in Camden, Maine, attending Pop!Tech, an annual gathering of thought leaders in technology and design launched in 1996. This year Pop!Tech inaugurated a three-day bootcamp for social entrepreneurs, called the Social Innovation Fellowship Program, the latest addition to Pop!Tech’s year-old startup incubator, […] Read more »

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Ivan and Abby Kirigin founded their startup, Tipjoy, to give consumers of free content a new way to pay for the stuff they really like: by leaving a tip. While the idea sounds simple enough, what the Kirigins want to do is actually far more ambitious […] Read more »

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Editor’s Note: This post is the second in a three-part series authored by Xobni’s VP of engineering, Gabor Cselle. Read a longer version (co-written with Marie C. Baca ) on Cselle’s blog starting Monday. I run product development at Xobni, maker of an email application that […] Read more »

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Editor’s note: For the sake of accuracy, we have replaced the edited questions and answers with their unedited version (save for some minor stylistic changes). We sincerely apologize for any confusion. This week Found|READ interviews software entrepreneur Paul Graham, co-founder of the influential startup incubator, Y […] Read more »

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I spent yesterday afternoon in an hours-long strategy session with some former Y Combinator grads. The team is in the final week of preparing their startup for its Beta launch, and they were having difficulty yesterday deciding what the ultimate hierarchy of the pre-launch tasks should […] Read more »

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This is the age of Celebrity 2.0. If you have more that 200 Twitter, FriendFeed, Facebook, Yelp friends, you’re a celeb, too! After watching too many big shots ‘step in it’ again and again this week (first at Y Combinator’s Startup School, and I’m sure Web2.0 […] Read more »

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There is a well-established rule in our business that you can’t really found a company part-time. Moonlighting sounds great, but it’s a bit like being half pregnant. At least, this is the conventional wisdom, some of it very well-informed. (Paul Graham: “The number one thing not […] Read more »

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I had breakfast last week with Doug Renert, cofounder of Tandem Entrepreneurs, which represents a great new model for a startup service-provider. When Doug pointed me to this cartoon on their site, I laughed. It illustrates a very genuine founders’ state of mind : You’re so […] Read more »

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