Archive for August, 2008

RedMol – real estate investments made easy

Friday 22 August 2008 @ 8:35 am

Redmol.com is a real estate investments website solely delicated to the investors and the individuals. Anybody can list a property for sale on the site and it is open to all types of investors. The analytical tools is a great way for individual to value their investments based on measureable criteria such as cap rate and income.

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Startup Hyperic Keeps an Eye on The Clouds

Thursday 21 August 2008 @ 9:58 am

San Francisco based startup Hyperic is announcing the launch of its new service called CloudStatus - a hosted real-time cloud monitoring service to keep an eye on cloud–based services. This is another boost towards the era of Cloud Computing.

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$40 Million funding for Cleantech startup Trilliant

Wednesday 20 August 2008 @ 3:03 pm

Smart grid and advanced metering Cleantech startup Trilliant has pulled in $40 Million in funding, making it one of the largest investments in recent times. It is competing the likes of Ambient, Silver Spring Networks, SmartSynch in that competitive space.

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If Your Startup Looks Like This, Chances Are: You’re Doing It Wrong.

Wednesday 20 August 2008 @ 2:56 pm

Dave Mclure, the Program Chair at Startonomics says that "Startonomics is about making the world of startups less random, less complicated, more measurable & more repeatable. Startonomics is about creating simple, actionable metrics for startup success.".

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YouTube co-founder searching for his next success

Tuesday 19 August 2008 @ 7:09 am

Jawed Karim, the co-founder of YouTube is spending his time in a more focused way than going on a vacation or sharpening up those gaming skills. He is scouring the twin cities in the Mid-West for the next smell of success: his next entrepreneurial venture that could becomes something big.

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Is the Startup WorkDay, The Next Software Power?

Tuesday 19 August 2008 @ 7:09 am

After landing three large companies as customers in barely eighteen months, Dave Duffield has a lot of attention with his new startup called the WorkDay, which could become the next SalesForce.com and follow the foot-steps of Marc Benioff.

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Spudu

Tuesday 19 August 2008 @ 4:23 am

Spudu, a start page originating from Dutch soil just launched today. Spudu differentiates itself from other multi-search engines by its simplicity, usability and speed. Edo van Royen: ‘Spudu is a "multi-search engine". This means that you can easily access several search-engines on one start page. ‘ Spudu is available in the United States, the Netherlands and Great Britain

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Popular Images – Picture For Me

Friday 15 August 2008 @ 11:53 pm

Bookmark and share the images you like on blogs and websites around with one button, and put everything you saw and liked on the same page to look again whenever you want. Enjoy people's favorite images.

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Amyris Funding: Another $21M For Synthetic Bio

Friday 15 August 2008 @ 1:19 pm

Adding another $21 Million to its Series B funding, taking the total to $91.35 Million (yes, you read that correct), Emeryville, Calif.-based startup has some of the most prominent cleantech VCs backing it, including DAG Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins and TPG Ventures.

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Examining new startups: Trendessence, LiveRail, imcandy, Animasher, Heekya

Friday 15 August 2008 @ 12:49 pm

Liz Gannes of Gigaom, puts five new startups through the NewTeeVee lens, trying to provide a quick short summary of each one and the lowdown on how each one fares. These include the Israel based video startup imcandy, which includes an amateur porn section.

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