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After listening to the new Eels album repeatedly and really loud, Red Dog proclaims himself "El Lobo Rojo" and fulfills his canine fantasy.After listening to the new Eels album repeatedly and really loud, Red Dog proclaims... more
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Google has launched "Google Ventures", a venture capital fund that looks at a "broad range of industries, including consumer Internet, software, hardware, clean-tech, bio-tech and health care"
They are looking to invest "anywhere from seed to mezzanine stage" and are now accepting applications.
What do you think is behind Google's thinking to go into venture capital in the current economic climate?Google has launched "Google Ventures", a venture capital fund that looks at... more
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TOM PERKINS IS A VERY SUCCESSFUL VENTURE CAPITALIST WHO MADE MILLIONS BACKING SILICON VALLEY BASED COMPANIES SUCH AS GENETIC, GOOGLE, AND NETSCAPETOM PERKINS IS A VERY SUCCESSFUL VENTURE CAPITALIST WHO MADE MILLIONS BACKING SILICON... more
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this week's pop culture news done entirely in crayon!
by erika broooks adickman
music: Du Og Meg by Of Montreal this week's pop culture news done entirely in crayon!
by erika broooks... more
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The recovering politician is teaming with a legendary venture capitalist and bigtime moneyman to make over the $6 trillion global energy business. A Fortune exclusive
(Fortune Magazine) -- It's lunchtime on Sand Hill Road, and Al Gore wants answers. "How does the efficiency decline with latitude?" he asks. "What size community could be served by one plant? If a manufacturer like GE wanted to make smaller turbines, would the technology support a smaller scale?"
We're sitting in the giant conference room at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, where the partners hold their weekly meetings. After loading his plate with Chinese food from a buffet, Gore is firing detailed questions at the management team of Ausra, a Kleiner-backed company in Palo Alto whose technology uses mirrors the width of a flatbed truck that focus the sun's energy to generate electricity. The recovering politician is teaming with a legendary venture capitalist and bigtime... more
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Kontera, an Israel startup (although their official headquarters is in San Francisco), is cashing in on the full-on bonanza around anything that calls itself an advertising network right now.
A year ago they raised $7 million from Sequoia Capital and Lehman Brothers. Tomorrow theyll announce a second round of financing - $10.3 million more from Carmel Ventures, an Israeli venture firm. Sequoia and Lehman are also participating.
Konteras main product is in-text advertising. Theyll take popular keywords within the text of an article and put double lines below them to signify its an advertisement. Clicking on it generates cash for the publisher. A demo of the product is here. In the press release a customer claims to be seeing 10% click through rates from the ads.
Kontera, an Israel startup (although their official headquarters is in San Francisco),... more
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