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Twitter COO Dick Costolo: Revenue is on and advertising is coming soon
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VentureBeat: Twitter COO Dick Costolo is on-stage at TechCrunch’s Real-Time CrunchUp. I’m taking some notes as we go.[Costolo talks about why they changed the question from "What are you doing?" to "What's happening?"]Costolo: In user research, people would sign up for Twitter and they’d see this big white box that said “What are you do (Read More)
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Quick Followup: VCTips at Web 2.0 Expo
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Christine.net: Just a quick post to take care of two VCTips housekeeping items: 1. A big thank-you to Amish Jani from FIRSTMARK Capital, Oren Netzer from DoubleVerify, and Avner Ronen from Boxee for joining me and Bryce Roberts at this week's VCTips workshop at Web 2.0 Expo New York.2. If you'd like to get a copy of the workshop slides, y (Read More)
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Facilitating Women Entrepreneurs
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Submitted by Motown Terri from blog: Author : Vicki IrvinMany scientific studies conducted over many years comparing men and women, have found out that women make better business people This they say can be attributed to their ability to multi task And their multi taking ability is a notch higher than that of men They are also able negotiators and more like (Read More)
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Chegg, chegg, chegg raises $57m + $25m credit for text book rental... (alarmClock via TechNews AM)
16 hours ago

Submitted by Mogston from blog: Online textbook rental company Chegg.com it raised $57M in a fourth round of funding. Santa Clara-based Chegg.com said the round was led by Insight Venture Partners. In addition, Chegg got a $25M credit facility, adding to the $30M in debt facility recently secured from Pinnacle Ventures and TriplePoint Capital. Including t (Read More)
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Lead gens quinstreet files $250m ipo... (alarmClock via TechNews AM)
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Submitted by Mogston from blog: Foster City-based lead generation giant QuinStreet has filed for a $250M IPO. The company saw $260M in revenue for the fiscal year ending June 30 (an uptick of 35% over the prior year), with net income of around $17.2M. QuinStreet has raised nearly $60M in funding, from VC firms led by Split Rock Partners, Sutter Hill Ventu (Read More)
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Shareholders Quiz Ballmer About Macs Windows Mobile Phones
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Submitted by Stewbagz from blog: News Profiles And Commentary On Seattle Technology Startups Microsoft Amazon.Com Gadgets Pcs Software Venture Capital And Internet Services. . (Read More)
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News Roundup: Bhushan Steel Looks To Offload 5% Stake
15 hours ago

VC Circle: Zee Seeks More Time For Ten Sports Buyout - Zee Entertainment has asked Dubai-based Taj TV for a one-month extension of a deadline to acquire a higher stake in Ten Sports till November end. Zee had the option of increasing its stake by October 31, at the 2006 valuation. Zee, which holds half the company's shareholding, migh (Read More)
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Uks picochip hitches $20m from cautious vcs... (alarmClock via TechNews AM)
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Submitted by Mogston from blog: At a time when venture investors are cautious, picoChip today announced that it has completed a $20M (€13M) round of funding. The round points not only to the confidence of investors but also to the leadership, strength and game-changing technology of picoChip, which has been a first mover in femtocell technology since 2005 (Read More)
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Chegg, Chegg, Chegg Raises $57M + $25M Credit For Text Book Rental
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alarm:clock: Online textbook rental company Chegg.com it raised $57M in a fourth round of funding. Santa Clara-based Chegg.com said the round was led by Insight Venture Partners. In addition, Chegg got a $25M credit facility, adding to the $30M in debt facility recently secured from Pinnacle Ventures and TriplePoint Capital. Including t (Read More)
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Playhaven creates lots of fan communities for iPhone game developers
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VentureBeat: Playhaven is making it easy for gamers to create fan communities around iPhone games. It does so by creating online forums for fans on its web site, with a new fan section for every iPhone game. Developers can then claim those game communities as official fan sites.To date, 40 developers have launched official communities a (Read More)
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Online MarketingMedia Firm Quinstreet Files for $250 Million IPO
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paidContent.org: Quinstreet, the Foster City, CA-based vertical media and marketing firm that recently bought Insure.com and Internet.com, has filed for an IPO to raise as much as $250 million, according to its S1. Last month Quin paid $16 million for Insure.com, and its related media assets, (Read More)
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Lead Gen's QuinStreet Files $250M IPO
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alarm:clock: Foster City-based lead generation giant QuinStreet has filed for a $250M IPO. The company saw $260M in revenue for the fiscal year ending June 30 (an uptick of 35% over the prior year), with net income of around $17.2M. QuinStreet has raised nearly $60M in funding, from VC firms led by Split Rock Partners, Sutter Hill Ventu (Read More)
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Edelweiss Capital To Foray Into Life Insurance
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VC Circle: Edelweiss Capital is forming a life insurance joint venture with Tokio Marine Holdings (Japan) to tap the domestic insurance business. The JV firm Edelweiss Tokio Life Insurance will soon approach the sector regulator Insurance Regulatory & Development Authority (IRDA) to obtain a life insurance licence.Edelweiss and Tokio (Read More)
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UK's picoChip Hitches $20M from Cautious VCs
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alarm:clock: At a time when venture investors are cautious, picoChip today announced that it has completed a $20M (€13M) round of funding. The round points not only to the confidence of investors but also to the leadership, strength and game-changing technology of picoChip, which has been a first mover in femtocell technology since 200 (Read More)
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College admissions site myfit raises $1 million... (PaidContent via TechNews AM)
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Submitted by Mogston from blog: MyFit has raised $1 million in a round led by VC firm New Enterprise Associates. The site takes the information a student enters (like GPA or SAT scores) and returns a student’s chances of getting in—and fitting in—at various colleges (It cross references the data with information gathered from graduates at more than 3,500 (Read More)
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