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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. - . - 500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? First Principles.

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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. By the time these apps figured out that discovery, sharing, and organization (now popularly called curation) were really important to users the market had passed them by. There is No RSS Market.

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