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Startup Incubator TechStars Invades New York City

September 1, 2010

TechCrunch / Erick Schonfeld

When it comes to seed investing, New York City is becoming a hotbed. And now TechStars, the incubator that began in Boulder. Colorado and has spawned nearly 40 startups, is coming to New York.

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A Phonebook for the 21st Century

September 2, 2010

New York Times / By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER

Inflection, the start-up behind genealogy site Archives.com, is introducing a people search engine.

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The Best Lawsuit Ever Filed That Mentions Mark Cuban, Nolan Ryan and Robin Ventura

September 2, 2010

Unfair Park / Robert Wilonsky

Whilst looking for something entirely unrelated on PACER this morning I came across the latest handwritten court filing by none other than Jonathan Lee Riches, from whom we last heard way back in ...

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Four Minutes In The Morning

September 1, 2010

Feld Thoughts / Brad Feld

Amy and I created a tradition about a decade ago we call “four minutes in the morning.

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452 stocks closed at all-time highs

September 2, 2010

uglychart.com: a blog about stocks / Sparky

“It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems too low usually goes lower.

ArcSight Declines Comment On Report The Company Is For Sale

September 2, 2010

BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily - Barron's Online / Eric Savitz

On a conference call with the Street this afternoon following its FY Q1 earnings report, ArcSight (ARST) CEO Tom Reilly declined to talk about the recent Wall Street Journal report which asserted that ...

AgriMarine Holdings Inc. Launches New Web Site

September 2, 2010

Market Wire - Full Feed

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Sept. 2, 2010) -

Incubator BoomStartup unleashes its first class of Utah startups

September 2, 2010

VentureBeat / Anthony Ha

Startup incubators continue to spread across the country, and one of the latest is BoomStartup, a Utah-based organization that’s graduating its first class of entrepreneurs next week.

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Twitter App for iPad Puts New Focus on Design

September 2, 2010

New York Times / By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER

Twitter has a new app for the iPad -- and along with it, a new approach to design and usability.

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Spinout Doctors: How New Venture Partners Saved Freescale’s Magnetic Memory and Other Stranded Technologies

September 2, 2010

Xconomy / Wade Roush

Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory, or MRAM, promises to change everything about how our computing devices work.

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BankSimple Deposits $3.1 Million From First Round, Ron Conway, And Sean Parker

September 2, 2010

TechCrunch / Erick Schonfeld

New York City startup BankSimple today disclosed that it raised its first venture funding in a round led by First Round Capital, Roger Ehrenberg's IA Ventures, and Village Ventures, along with seed ...

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Should Skype Be Cisco’s Gateway Drug?

September 1, 2010

GigaOM : On Broadband, VoIP & The Next Generation Internet / Matt Asay

With 560 million registered users (124 million of which are active), but only 8.1 million paying customers, Skype could use some help.

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Want to try Glass? We've got Invites!

September 1, 2010

AppScout

Earlier this week we reviewed Glass, a Web service and Firefox extension that allows you to save blog posts, Web sites, articles, video, and other content on the Web and share it with others ...

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bttf 2 power laces 2.0 can be real with your help

September 1, 2010

technabob / shane m.

You might recall back in early July, I mentioned a person that had created her own pair of self-lacing Nike shoes like the ones McFly wore in Back to the Future II. Looking beyond the…

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Too Few Women In Tech? We Aren't Blaming Men.

September 1, 2010

aliza sherman rants and raves / Aliza Sherman

Dear Michael Arrington, I don't know you so I reserve judgement on your character and will not base it solely on your post about women in Silicon Valley.

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Saving Stranded Technologies: Talking with Spinout Expert David Tennenhouse at New Venture Partners

September 1, 2010

Xconomy / Wade Roush

The “two guys in a garage” story of how technology companies get started is a powerful one in Silicon Valley.

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Viral Video (and Perfect Casting): Mark Cuban on "Entourage" [BoomTown]

September 1, 2010

All Things Digital / Kara Swisher

Of course, it makes perfect sense for Mark Cuban to appear in a very long and involved cameo as himself on the HBO original comedy series "Entourage.

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Will the Stem Cell Ruling Affect Venture Capital Investing?

September 1, 2010

Xconomy / Brad Webb

Last week’s federal district court ruling ordering an immediate halt in federal funding for stem cell research has thrown academic research circles into a state of confusion.

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The ultimate guide to September's science fiction awesomeness! [Io9 Calendar]

September 1, 2010

io9: top / Charlie Jane Anders

September rocks your universe, with William Gibson's long-awaited novel Zero History, the return of your favorite TV shows including Fringe, Venture ...

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Free pitch training workshops for EU startups with a UK base

August 31, 2010

TechCrunch UK / Mike Butcher

TechCrunch Europe and UK Trade and Investment are organising a series of pitch workshops to help startups hone their pitch for events. These are free. The next on is on 7th September.

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peHUB Second Opinion 9.2

September 2, 2010

PE Hub Blog / Connie Loizos

The Sony Walkman outsells the iPod in Japan for the first time since Apple's music player hit the market nine years ago. In related news, Sony still makes the Walkman.

TSX Venture Exchange closed 13.62 points higher at 1,531.25 points Thursday

September 2, 2010

Canadian Business Online: Market News

TORONTO - The TSX Venture Exchange closed 13.62 points higher at 1,531.25 on Thursday. The volume at 4:30 p.m. was 277.25 million

Shawn Wilsher: Startup Time in the Wild Take Three

September 2, 2010

Planet Mozilla / Shawn Wilsher

Over a week ago, I collected the data I said I was going to look at last time.

September 2 Roundtable Recording

September 2, 2010

Sramana Mitra on Strategy / mkelly

In case you missed it, here is the recording:

H&R Block trims first-quarter loss, tops revenue expectations

September 2, 2010

Venture Capital News - Venture Capital News Headlines | Bizjournals.com

H&R Block Inc. reported a slightly smaller net loss in the first quarter as it beat Wall Street revenue expectations and trimmed expenses. (HRB)

Readings: Decoupling, Las Vegas, Obesity, Spare Capacity, Popcorn, etc.

September 2, 2010

Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed / pk

The odd decouple of the U.S. economy (Source) 100 years of US obesity (Source)) All signs point to continuing Las Vegas exodus (Source) U.S.

Chartbeat Raises $3 Million in First Round Financing

September 2, 2010

NYConvergence - A digest of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut media and technology news / Esther Surden

New York-based Chartbeat has raised $3 million in first round venture capital financing.

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