$41 million. From Sequoia Capital, Bain Capital, and Silicon Valley Bank. Pre-launch. That’s how much a brand new startup called Color has to work with. Your eyebrows should already be raised, and here’s something to keep them fixed there: this is the most money Sequoia has ever invested in a pre-launch startup. Or, as the […]
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Color Looks To Reinvent Social Interaction With Its Mobile Photo App (And $41 Million In Funding)
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Microsoft’s Vietnam Partner FPT Aims to Combine Units, Focus on Software
More...FPT Corp. (FPT), Vietnam’s biggest publicly traded telecommunications and software company, said it plans to combine its technology units and focus on restoring the annual earnings growth rate to more than 30 percent. FPT will consolidate five subsidiaries — FPT Information System, FPT Telecom Corp., FPT Software, FPT Online and FPT Trading Group — with […]
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The Top 50 Venture-Backed Companies
More...Venture capitalists are betting that the next Google Inc. or Facebook Inc. will have a name like Xactly, Chegg or Zoosk. In what may be a sign of a re-inflating Web bubble, The Wall Street Journal’s second annual ranking of 50 venture-capital-backed companies shows investors are chasing after Internet firms, many with a consumer focus. […]
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Quỹ đầu tư trong nước: Bài toán huy động chưa có lời giải
More...Thời kỳ sôi động của hoạt động huy động quỹ đầu tư thành lập theo Luật Chứng khoán Việt Nam (gọi là “Quỹ đầu tư trong nước” để phân biệt với các quỹ đầu tư thành lập theo luật pháp khác) là từ tháng 7/2006 tới tháng 3/2008, khi có tới 20 quỹ đầu tư […]
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Why Engineers Are Better Off Joining Startups
More...Editor’s note: Guest author Bindu Reddyis the CEO of MyLikes, a word-of-mouth ad network funded by former Googlers. Previously at Google she managed a team of product managers in charge of various Google apps including Google Docs, Google Sites, and Blogger. Her last guest post was on Facebook overtaking Google. It is truly a great time to be an […]