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The Alchemist Accelerator program will focus on providing enterprise startups strong mentorship.
Amid all the entrepreneurs striving to make the next Facebook, a new accelerator program is launching to help startups become the next Box or Yammer. Starting in July, the venture capital-backed Alchemist Accelerator program will help 12 teams whose mission...
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Mark Zuckerberg is known for having arrived late for a meeting with prospective investor Sequoia Capital and giving a less-than-serious pitch while wearing pajamas. Now, as Facebook preps its initial public offering, Zuckerberg’s wardrobe has not received much of an...
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At the Sheraton New York Hotel on 7th Avenue in Manhattan, investors killed time on their BlackBerrys and iPads while in line for a presentation by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other executives (first photo). They waited to hear a...
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Bill Nguyen, the founder of the photo- and video-sharing application Color, acknowledges his company has so far been better at grabbing the attention of venture capitalists than actual users. After accepting $41 million from investors for an application that failed...
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A mail clerk at the Patent Office processes applications.
Add one more thing to the tech entrepreneur’s to-do list: file patents. Startups on small budgets have often viewed patents as an unnecessary expense because each one can cost around $15,000. But as Apple, Facebook, Google and other tech companies...
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Check out Facebook’s video presentation, showing what it will present to investors when executives go on the road ahead of an initial public offering. This is a pitch — the company shows plenty of smiling users — but it gives...
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Bill Clerico, seen here in July 2011, is CEO of WePay, which just raised $10 million.
Back in his days at Boston College, Bill Clerico knew how to stand out in a crowd. He did it by donning a costume of the school’s mascot, an eagle. Now as co-founder and CEO of WePay, one of many...
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Twitter executives talked with Tap Tap Tap, maker of the mobile photo app Camera+, about a possible acquisition.
Soon after Facebook agreed to pay $1 billion for Instagram, social networking rival Twitter considered acquiring a mobile photo-sharing application called Camera+, two people with knowledge of the negotiations said. Twitter executives held several meetings with Camera+ developer Tap Tap...
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Amazon's outside investments contributed more to the bottom line than its e-commerce operations.
Amazon.com is the world’s largest online retailer, but its outside investments contributed more money to the company’s bottom line in the first quarter than its e-commerce operations. In the three months ended March 31, Amazon made more than half...
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Benchmark Capital scored again after Intuit agreed to buy e-mail marketer Demandforce.
The hits keep coming for Benchmark Capital. Following Facebook’s $1 billion acquisition of Instagram earlier this month, the venture firm scored again today after Intuit agreed to buy e-mail marketer Demandforce for $423.5 million. Benchmark, the Silicon Valley firm that...
Read more »For all the hype over the upcoming Facebook initial public offering, companies that serve consumers don’t give investors as good a return as companies that focus on corporate users, according to data compiled by Tableau Software Inc. Companies focused on...
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