Xconomy:
Synthetic Biology, Industrial Chemicals, Biofuels Bruce V. Bigelow wrote: After Carlsbad, CA-based Verdezyne disclosed last month that it plans to raise more than $15 million in venture funding, I arranged to sit down with Damien Perriman, the company’s vice president of business development.As it turns out, the startu (Read More)
Submitted by Mogston
from blog:
This is our third guest post written by a London-based VC. To allow them to speak plainly without jeopardising their fund or their career in the small village that is the London VC scene, I'm allowing them to post anonymously. FYI, LondonVC is a genuine VC and TechCrunch Europe has met them face to face.One of the biggest c (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
The hot story in tech right now is "real-time," thanks to Twitter and Facebook, so you're going to hear a lot of noise over the next few years about "real-time" tech startups. Most of them will be useless and will flame out.Read the rest of this story »See Also:Salesforce Shows Off Chatter: Twitter For Corporations (CRM)Her (Read More)
Xconomy:
deals, startups, Investments Gregory T. Huang wrote: We hope to make this a regular feature in our Xconomy cities. It’s a look at small financings of private companies in tech, life sciences, and cleantech. These are deals in the roughly $100,000 to $1 million range, and they’re increasingly where the action is for loc (Read More)
PE Hub News: All News:
Ligon Discovery Inc., a Cambridge, Mass.-based drug developer that uses small molecule microarray technology, has raised $1 million in seed funding led by incTank Ventures. www.ligondiscovery.com
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OnStartups:
By now you've probably heard of Answers OnStartups, the new Q&A community for any topic about startups and entrepreneurship. If not, here's Dharmesh's announcement. I have the good fortune of being asked to co-moderate the site with Dharmesh, probably as a result of the popularity of a few provocative but useful guest-pos (Read More)
Venture Capital and Angel Investor Profiles:
Scott Nissenbaum, Managing Director, Novitas Capital Mr. Nissenbaum joined Novitas Capital in 1998, and is focused on investments in Technology. Mr. Nissenbaum has served on the Boards of Directors of Traffic.com (NASDAQ:TRFC), USA Technologies (OTC.BB:USTT), EZ Prints, Commerce360, ImageTree, Haley Systems, and Fortera, an (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Behind every tech problem is a human problem – and if you don’t dig into it and figure out how solve it, your company will never progress. Serial entrepreneur Eric Ries, in this entrepreneurial though leader lecture given at Stanford University, notes that a layered analysis of decisions and procedures can help you narrow t (Read More)
PE Hub News: All News:
Michael Avon has joined Millennial Media as executive vice president and chief financial officer. He previously was a principal with Columbia Capital. Millennial is a Baltimore-based provider of mobile advertising solutions, which recently raised $16 million in Series C funding from firms like Columbia, New Enterprise Assoc (Read More)
New York Times:
CF Industries announced Friday that all three of its nominees were elected to the board of rival fertilizer maker Terra Industries, potentially ending an 11-month takeover battle. (Read More)
Submitted by Motown Terri
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Author : Connor SullivanIt can be quite challenging to start a new business Numerous small businesses fail within their first year of establishment and the rest of the time the entrepreneurs are either trying to get hold of a Milwaukee bankruptcy attorney or a Milwaukee bankruptcy lawyer When people set up a new business, (Read More)
TechCrunch UK:
This is our third guest post written by a London-based VC. To allow them to speak plainly without jeopardising their fund or their career in the small village that is the London VC scene, I’m allowing them to post anonymously. FYI, LondonVC is a genuine VC and TechCrunch Europe has met them face to face.One of the biggest c (Read More)
observer.guardian.co.uk:
Chief executive of country's biggest building society warns rising unemployment will hit house prices and attacks regulatory changesNationwide Building Society today attacked regulatory changes which it warned could impede the mutual sector as it admitted profits in the first half had fallen more than 60%.Underlying pre-tax (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Technique developed by the Chinese centuries ago has potential to give up to 3 million people access to clean water in the drylands of Africa, winner saysA 400-year-old water-saving technique that could save millions of people from drought last night won the ringing endorsement of an audience at the Geographical Society in (Read More)
The Guardian:
John Kennedy's retirement was another blow for a Scotland team short on talent and coherencePerhaps it was inevitable, but the confirmation a week ago that Celtic's John Kennedy had been forced to retire from professional football still struck an emotional chord with even the most hardened Scottish football fan.Kennedy's kn (Read More)