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[Posted on June 16, 2008 - 9:00 AM]
 TheFunded.com founder Adeo Ressi has always said his mission was to bring balance to the skewed power relationship between venture capitalists and entrepreneurs. Best known for shrouding his rate-the-VC site...  Continue Reading.
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[Posted on May 30, 2008 - 3:38 PM]
 The Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs has announced the 30 companies (selected from 266 applicants) to demonstrate new products at Launch: Silicon Valley 2008. The event, which is sponsored...  Continue Reading.
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[Posted on May 1, 2008 - 11:02 AM]
  While some of the biggest technology companies today were famously founded by youngsters messing around in their dorm rooms or garages, that image of Silicon Valley is more legend...  Continue Reading.
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[Posted on April 29, 2008 - 4:03 PM]
 The operator of hip-hop social network Urbmob.com confirms that it has raised $1.5 million in funding from venture investors including Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Grosvenor Funds and New Atlantic Ventures (formerly...  Continue Reading.
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[Posted on April 22, 2008 - 11:17 AM]
 Angel-backed music widget provider Sonific LLC will shutter its service on May 1 after it failed to reach workable licensing agreements with major industry labels. Founding CEO Gerd Leonhard posted a...  Continue Reading.
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[Posted on April 17, 2008 - 5:00 PM]
   Stable Media LLC of Los Angeles today became the latest company to launch a virtual world: Riplounge.com. The music-focused site offers a virtual clubgoing experience featuring various genres of...  Continue Reading.

[Posted on April 16, 2008 - 2:48 PM]
 Will Smith's production company has invested in PluggedIn Media Corp., a new streaming video site for music clips that launched late Tuesday. PluggedIn, which might be described as the Hulu...  Continue Reading.
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[Posted on April 8, 2008 - 10:40 PM]
 It seems Obvious that microblogging service Twitter Inc. is planning to sell targeted advertising eventually, but an unannounced rollout of new features tonight gives a hint to its future plans....  Continue Reading.
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[Posted on April 8, 2008 - 12:49 PM]
 Unnamed angels have injected $550,000 in fresh capital in one-year-old startup mTraks Inc. of San Diego, a seller of downloadable music from independent artists. The indie-focused mTraks is pursuing a...  Continue Reading.
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[Posted on April 4, 2008 - 2:33 PM]
 Commenting on Seesmic's acquisition of Twhirl, Om Malik says he doesn't quite "get" Seesmic and poses two quite reasonable questions about the video blogging service: What is its utility, and...  Continue Reading.
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[Posted on April 2, 2008 - 7:12 PM]
 TechCrunch reports that the vice president of Yahoo! Inc.'s [YHOO] music division, Ian Rogers, has left the company to become CEO of venture-backed startup Topspin Media, which remains in stealth...  Continue Reading.
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[Posted on April 1, 2008 - 4:51 PM]
 "If you look at the music business, the real hit rate is even worse than it is for VCs--it's one in 20, one in 30," says OurStage Inc. founder and...  Continue Reading.
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