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Startup Business Investments Around The World

YoungUpstarts

Angel Networks. Angel investors provide everything that startups need — from funding, mentorship, professional advice, and access to investors in their network. You can search for angel networks by area and platform type. Professional Social Networking Sites. Crowdfunding Sites.

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This Week in VC with @VCMike Hirshland of Polaris Ventures

Both Sides of the Table

This includes seed funding Automattic (who produce WordPress, the blog I use for this website) and investing in formspring.me, stickybits, Thing Labs (producer of Brizzly), KissMetrics and many others including Quantcast. So how is Mike able to do this at a time where others have warned against taking seed money from VC funds?

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Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret

cdixon.org

I would think you would want to at least be cautious in discussing your virtualization idea with someone at VMware, your search idea with Google, etc. But it’s ultimately users who will determine if the market is ready for social media driven two way search and advertising. link] Marco.

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

pandodaily.com

If you are raising a seed round now, there are a few things you can do to protect yourself. There are still the same debates on whether or not you should take seed money from VCs. HealthTab acquires Avvo Health to double its doctor network. Google+ Chief touts the only thing Google+ is beating Facebook on — Search.