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Author : Anson HallA lot of people will be confused when it comes to the idea of making money online It is because they do not know what kind of online business they should choose The number of options you have is huge Starting an online shop is certainly a perfect example of online money making opportunity However, it i (Read More)
TechCrunch:
I’m in India this weekend with fellow TechCrunch/BusinessWeek writer Sarah Lacy. After we’re done with the elephant rides in Jaipur, we’re going to be meeting local tech startups. Then we head back to New Delhi to meet more aspiring entrepreneurs. Sarah is writing a book on how startup culture has gone global and I’m resear (Read More)
VentureBeat:
VentureBeat is throwing a new mini-conference and networking event, DiscoveryBeat.DiscoveryBeat addresses one of the biggest conundrums for Silicon Valley’s most dynamic startups and developers: How to get your social game or mobile application noticed in an age of noise?It will be held in the afternoon of Dec. 8 at the Aut (Read More)
Skype Journal:
The deal values Skype at $2.75 billion. Index is out, freeing up 2.4% of the equity. Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis are in. They are contributing Joltid software for 10% of the company. They are paying $83 million for 4% of the company (a discount, since that would value the $2.08 billion). They a (Read More)
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Strategies for cyber jungle survival (tips for online retailers)In the organizational landscape, the novel and logical means that is perhaps the most encouraging of all drivers is E-commerce. It seems to have revolutionized the manner in which business processes and procedures are being undertaken. Some of the goals that it (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Offerpal Media founder Anu Shukla was hit with a lawsuit this summer over alleged shenanigans over the company’s founding, VentureBeat has learned.In August, Kevin Halpern filed a breach of contract lawsuit against Shukla. He alleges that he helped start the company in 2006 with Shukla but was cut out of promised stock owne (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Rumors persist that Electronic Arts plans to buy social gaming startup PlayFish to break into the fast-growing market of Facebook games.In the meantime, EA continues to expand into social games on its own. Today, it launched Spore Islands, a spin-off from the create-a-creature Spore game in launched on the PC last year. It (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Twitter chairman and cofounder Jack Dorsey has a new startup called the Square iPhone Payment System, to be located at SquareUp.com.The business will be selling consumers on an attachment for their iPhones they can use to pay for stuff instead of using their credit cards.Read the rest of this story »See Also:The Sweet Life (Read More)
VentureBeat:
(Editor’s note: Brad Feld is an early stage investor and co-founder of Foundry Group. This post originally appeared on his blog.) VCs say a lot of stupid things. I’m guilty of it plenty and whenever someone calls me on it I try to acknowledge and change. One that I try really hard not to do is say “my company” when refe (Read More)
Greentech Media | News Feed:
I had the pleasure of speaking as part of a panel this morning at the Mid-Atlantic Capital Alliance's conference in Philadelphia. Here's a taste of what I told them:1. Cleantech only happens in Silicon Valley and MIT. If you look at the dollars flowing into cleantech from venture capitalists, and read the sunday NYT, tha (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Let's all stop and take a minute to appreciate how good Twitter chairman and cofounder Jack Dorsey has it.He's the guy who came up with the idea for Twitter way back in 2000 and then dusted it off again back in 2006, when he was working for a failing startup called Odeo.Read the rest of this story »See Also:Foursquare's Ang (Read More)
VentureBeat:
I’ve started three companies, and now I’m an angel investor. So I’ve been on both sides of the table.There are lots of good articles out there about pitching, and surely everyone who pitches me has read some of them. Still though, a few problems appear over and over again. If you’ve ever had to sort through resumes and cove (Read More)
TechCrunch:
What started off life as a couple of blog posts and a few tweets and then escalated to a full 140 character-driven fund raising campaign, Outvesting.org has begun inviting applications from Irish entrepreneurs and startups who could benefit from €5,000’s worth of a gifted, no-strings-attached funding.Outvesting.org is a dir (Read More)
VentureBeat:
We interviewed Anu Shukla, chief executive of Offerpal about her views on the advertising offers that fuel the social gaming industry, which have been hit by controversy.Here’s the context: Online social games are one of the hottest areas of our economy. Millions of users are logging in to play games like Mob Wars, but whil (Read More)
TechCrunch:
[Croatia] Croatian startup Trillenium is to launched their web-based 3D shopping mall and social network with financial backing from a local angel investor and partnerships with a dozen local and international brands that will offer their products.While the hype over 3D experiences started by Second Life has passed, Trillen (Read More)