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Funding and numbers – young entrepreneur’s best advice

Video interview: Erica Douglass sold her million dollar web hosting company at the age of 26. She speaks about finding funding, knowing your limitations, and how to get started in technology and also describes how important it is to keep in control of the numbers in the company even if you are neither interested or skilled in economics.

This is the first interview on Entrepreneur Corner from Women 2.0. More interviews from Women 2.0 are available at http://www.women2.org/in-conversation-women-20-podcast-series/ Women 2.0… Continue Reading

5 best tutorials in product development

Stanford’s Entrepreneurship Corner is every week publishing a new video or podcast on entrepreurship with great entrepreneurs like Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder, Larry Page, Google Founder or Steve Blank, serial entrepreneur.
Here is VentureBeat’s choice of the best tutorials in product development.

5 best Stanford tutorials in management

Stanford’s Entrepreneurship Corner is every week publishing a new video or podcast on entrepreurship with great entrepreneurs like Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder, Larry Page Google Founder or Steve Blank, serial entrepreneur.
Here is VentureBeat’s choice of the best tutorials in management.

Q1 venture investing numbers not as dire as they look

[Editor's Note: Adeo Ressi published a version of this story earlier on TheFunded.com.]

The National Venture Capital Association released abysmal venture investing numbers for Q1 2009 on Friday and Saturday evening, after most media outlets had closed. The rushed articles that appeared over the weekend were either data driven, sensational, or wrong, and the story may not gather any more news cycles, which is a shame. As Founding Member of TheFunded.com, I avoid writing editorial on… Continue Reading

5 best Stanford tutorials in financing

Stanford’s Entrepreneurship Corner is every week publishing a new video or podcast on entrepreurship with great entrepreneurs like Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder, Larry Page Google Founder or Steve Blank, serial entrepreneur.
Here is VentureBeat’s choice of the best tutorials in financing.

Want to search for your look-alike?

GazoPa has built a search engine that finds images similar to those you upload or draw. Now the company is spinning out of Hitachi, moving its headquarters to Silicon Valley and when summer comes going into beta stage with its search engine.
The technology is based on putting different colors and shapes into groups, or clusters. Because images contain much more information than text, searching through indexed images takes more time than ordinary text search…. Continue Reading

Autonet turns cars into WiFi hot-spots. But will it survive car sales crisis?

San Francisco startup Autonet Mobile says it’s developed a technology that solves the long-standing problem of getting reliable internet connectivity in cars.

Cars and the TCP/IP protocol — the protocol that regulates transmission from sender to receiver over the internet — have been a difficult equation to solve. Downloading emails or surfing the web might work, but when it comes to, say, streaming media or using VPN (Virtual Private Network) security, cars and the Internet don’t seem… Continue Reading

No more death-by-PowerPoint?

PowerPoint dominates the market for presentation tools, but Prezi, a Hungarian startup, is hoping to change that.

I can hardly count the number of times I’ve dozed off in front of a PowerPoint presentation. It’s pretty much an audience killer. So, it’s not surprising that attempts have been made to create fresher and less predictable presentation tools. Companies like Flypaper have created tools that incorporate interactivity and different media. And players like Slideshare are helping users share presentations. Apple’s Keynote provides… Continue Reading

Study: Marketers flock to social networks, but payoff still unclear

According to a new study by WhitePaperSource , social networks are becoming a high-priority tool for marketers. The study, which questioned some 900 marketers, reports that 88 percent are using social media, such as Facebook and Twitter , to market their businesses. The study also indicates that this is a new trend, given that almost two thirds of respondents said they’d only been using social network channels for a couple of months.

Michael A. Stelzner, founder of the consulting company,… Continue Reading

$9 million investment in the thriving greeting card business

Greetz, a Netherlands-based greeting-card service has attracted $9 million from ePlanet Ventures of Palo Alto, and existing shareholder Prime Technology Ventures of the Netherlands. The investment is primarily to strengthen Greetz’ position in the Dutch market and expand online worldwide. Greetz lets users personalize greeting cards at its web site, then it prints the cards and mails them to the customer. Customers can also schedule birthday cards for the entire year and link into social networks.

The greeting card market may… Continue Reading

Optical transceiver company OneChip Photonics secures $16.5M

OneChip Photonics , a company that that develops and manufactures optical transceivers for broadband applications, just raised $16.5 million in a second round of funding from DCM, BDC Venture Capital , GrowthWorks Canadian Fund and Morgenthaler Ventures. The company says that the money will enable it to expand operations globally and deliver fully integrated fiber-to-the-home transceiver technology to clients in the second half of 2009.

The product allows for small business and consumer broadband applications via direct deployment of fiber. OneChip… Continue Reading

OneSwarm delivers new way to share files anonymously

Today, virtually everyone is a content provider. But content distributed through BitTorrent trackers can be monitored by third parties, a fact some users don’t like. Third parties can, for example, monitor sharing and then use the data for marketing purposes.

Enter OneSwarm, a file sharing application made by some of the same developers who created the BitTorrent client BitTyrant. Instead of transmitting data directly from sender to receiver and identifying them both, the OneSwarm application forwards data through multiple… Continue Reading

Videoconference co. Vidyo raises $15M

High-definition videoconference company Vidyo just announced a $15 million third round of financing that it will use to further its leadership in the personal telepresence market. The funding was part of a total $38 million the New Jersey-based company has raised since its inception. Menlo Ventures led the latest round and was joined by existing investors Rho Ventures, Sevin Rosen Funds and Star Ventures.