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Viola Private Equity Pumps $7 Million into Zend

VC Cafe

Zend has raised $37 million to date, most recently adding $9 million to its coffers in a round led by previous investors including: Greylock Partners, Index Ventures, Azure Capital Partners, Intel Capital,SAP Ventures. Zend was started in 1999 and is currently headquartered in Cupertino, CA with an R&D office in Israel.

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From RSS to Glassboard

Venture Chronicles

It is built with Microsoft Azure as its back-end and will integrate with Microsoft’s forthcoming Office 365. Consumer RSS: 1999-2010. NewsGator is right to spin this off and Walker, Nick, and Brent are the right core team to lead it, and NewsGator CEO J.B. Additional posts I have written on this: Is Twitter Killing RSS?

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

Grade A Entrepreneurs , September 5, 2010 Why Krispy Kreme failed in Australia - Start Up Blog , November 3, 2010 Mellow Johnny’s: Retail Stores as Community Hubs - IDDICTIVE.COM , July 14, 2010 Is crowdfunding an option for my business?