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BASE!!! Turf.net Raises $250K for Online Capture the Flag

October 13, 2008

Turf.net has raised $225K from Harrison Metal Capital, following a $225K seed round from Y-combinator in January ‘08.
Created by 4 co-founders (recent grads from Harvard and Yale, one of whom works for Google), Turf.net is an online capture the flag game super-imposed over Google Maps.

With all this talk of VCs only funding companies that increase [...]

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MVP; The Indian YCombinator

September 10, 2008

Morpheus Venure Partners, or MVP, is attempting to do to Indian startups what YCombinator has done to US startups.
MVP, located in Bangalore, was founded by Nandini Hirianniah.
Offers potential companies in between $15,000 and $25,000 of investment to get off the ground, almost exactly like YCombinator.
Of the four companies who’ve received early stage assistance from MVP, [...]

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ContestMachine Makes Having A Contest Easy

September 7, 2008

YCombinator baby, ContestMachine, has just launched their easily manageable, embeddable contest widget
Input the specifics of your contest including prize, deadline and rules, and you are ready to host and manage a contest.
Members can hold two contests a month for free or unlimited @ $9 a month or $90 a year.

Made tiny from: TechCrunch.com original post

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