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Exit watch, week of Aug. 30, 2010News briefs about the acquisitions of Stratavia, CellMania and other VC-backed companies in the past week
- Michiganders launch local VC fund
Co-founders previously served together as managing directors of the $5.5M student-led Wolverine Venture Fund
- Quora Underscores The Power of "AngelList"
For a brief period on Friday afternoon, Quora, the Benchmark-backed http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/28/quora-has-the-magic-benchmark-invests-at-86-million-valuation/ question-and-answer site, went down, and the digerati lit up with Twittersphere with questions about when the service would be reinstated. The answer, it turned out, was quickly. Still, given Silicon Valley's love of Quora, it's unsurprising that one of its most popular question-and-answer threads in recent weeks has centered on: What do people think of AngelList? http://www.quora.com/AngelList/What-do-people-think-of-AngelList Turns out the list http://angel.co/ created by the "advice site" for entrepreneurs, VentureHacks http://www.venturehacks.com is considered indispensable, according to the 55 people who'd responded to the question as of this afternoon, many of them well-known investors like Dave McClure and Jon Callaghan of True Ventures. It's not surprising, given that the directory of more than 100 angels includes many of their likes, dislikes, and how best to reach out to them -- information the investors provide in return for exclusive information about startups that have been vetted by VentureHacks itself. The feedback is worth reading all the same. Because it's so extensive, I'm publishing just the first five answers from respondents, but take a look at the original thread if you have time.
- FM Publishing Buys TextDigger
Federated Media Publishing, a Sausalito, Calif.-based operator of an advertising network for online publishers, has acquired semantic search company TextDigger. No financial terms were disclosed. Federated Media is backed by firms like Oak Investment Partners and Omidyar Network. TextDigger had raised VC funding from Intel Capital, True Ventures and CBS Interactive.
- Entrepreneurs swap tales of how to survive without funding
At FailChat mini-conference, Christine Herron and others meet with burgeoning startups
- peHUB Wire: Monday, August 23, 2010
Random Ramblings
- peHUB Wire: Monday, August 23, 2010
Random Ramblings
- Week in deals, July 26, 2010
Summary of tech companies and other startups in North America that raised venture financing in the past week