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Kevin Rose wants to launch another startup, wishes he had stayed CEO of Digg

The Next Web

Google Ventures partner, Digg, Milk, and Revision3 co-founder, and raccoon enthusiast, Kevin Rose sat down with The Next Web co-founder Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten at The Next Web Conference Europe today. This story continues at The Next Web. Entrepreneur Events Google Insider Next Conference tnw-europe'

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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

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Pamela Poole is a blogger, translator and tech writer, and founder of Francophilia.com , a social startup for Francophiles. LeWeb , Europe's largest (and the world's second largest) Internet conference is held in Paris every December. All those struggling, bootstrapping, Ramen-eating founders? Web and mobile. E and more).

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Introducing our latest investment: Shippo, simplified shipping for small e-commerce sites

Version One Ventures

The opportunity is huge as the shipping industry related to e-commerce is $360B in the US and Western Europe alone. Other mashup APIs already exist that aggregate data from different carriers, but there’s yet to be any clear winner in the space. The annual rate at which e-commerce is growing is 20%.

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Innovate Israel Conference Brings 28 Israeli startups to London

VC Cafe

There hasn’t been such a full list of Israeli startups coming to Europe since Barcelona’s World Mobile Congress. Innovate Israel 2012 aims to connect Israeli web, mobile & digital entrepreneurs & businesses with their UK & European counterparts. Gigya’s mission is to socialize the rest of the web.

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Qunb wins the LeWeb 12 startup competition, helps users find and visualize numerical data

The Next Web

Le Web Paris 2012 has come to an end. So has the startup competition, an important part of the annual conference for Europe’s finest in tech. Hopefully this was just a fluke and the next Le Web events will deliver demonstrations from stronger candidates as they have managed to do in the past.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter October 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

owing to projected weakness in the economies of Israel’s main trading partners, the United States and Europe. Wintegra founders Kobi Ben-Zvi and Robert O’Dell will join PMC-Sierra. Shamir Optical reported revenues of $142 million in 2009, generated mainly in Europe and the United States, and has about 1,400 employees.

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

Founders don’t think their problems are due to trends. And in fact, overall trends are a second-order effect for founders.” “The real winners here are going to be the seed funds and early stage VCs that can write a $1 million to $2 million check,” says AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant.