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The State Of Venture Capital With Farhad Mohit

February 2, 2009

A couple days ago, I wrote on the state of the venture capital ecosystem in regards to Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of Silicon Valley’s most prominent venture funds, raising annex funds for its eleventh (2004) and twelfth funds (2006). The round was in order to have cash on hand in case it needs [...]

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QA Search Takes Center Stage For 09

January 26, 2009

There’s no doubt about it, ‘Question and Answer’ based search is finally going to find a home in the US for 09′. The concept was originally made a phenomenon by South Korea’s No.1 search engine, Naver. This year, we have seen quick success with Mahalo launching their take on the service, Mahalo Answers, and now [...]

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Screenshots And Analysis Of Blackberry’s Storefront

January 19, 2009

RIM has released official images of their Blackberry application center, the Blackberry Storefront. RIM is yet another mobile manufacturer who thinks a standard platform that allows third-party developers in to sell applications is going to solve everything for the company. Palm has just released their plans of having a platform for third party developers, [...]

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Solar 2009 Met With Conflicting Expectations, Lots Of Layoffs

January 14, 2009

Since I wrapped up the Solar Sector in 2008, there’s been a a steady stream of new 2009 announcements coming out of the same companies covered before. The wires have been, for the most part, unfortunately flooded with negative expectations from research analysts pushing to sell, plants shutting down, and workers being laid off.
First Solar, [...]

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The Battle To Be The (Profitable) YouTube For Documents

December 19, 2008

Y Combinator startup Scribd has raised its 4th round of financing – $9 million from Charles River Ventures, Redpoint Ventures and Kinsey Hills Group. This puts their total funding at around $12.8 million in an attempt to become the YouTube for documents.
Launched one year after Scribd, Los Angeles based, DocStoc jumped onto the scene to capture some [...]

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