Steve Brill's leaky airport-security startup raises $44 million [Venture Capital] (1)
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Verified Identity Pass, the company behind the Clear fast-pass program for security check lines at airports, has raised a $44.4 million round of investment lead by Spark Capital. More good news for founder Stephen Brill? VIP has been allowed to resume signing up new customers by the Transportation Security Administration after briefly losing a laptop with substantial amounts customer information. (Photo by AP/Richard Drew)
Hulu Getting Ready To Go International! (6)
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Ever since Hulu, the online-video joint venture backed by NBC, News Corp. and $100 million in private equity launched in March 2008, the service has been slowly winning over critics, including yours truly. And if that isn’t enough -– the company is rising to the top in the web video rankings. According to Nielsen data, Hulu is now the No. 8 most popular video web site, it’s and rising fast. It was ranked No. 10 ...
TravelMob is Evite for Group Travel (2)
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TravelMob is a new startup doing for group travel what Evite does for group events. TravelMob CEO Adam Smith notes that the service includes customized trip homepage, the ability to invite people and manage RSVPs, upload important trip-related files, create a photo gallery, see top tours for your destination, and plan via message board. Going with the 2008 flow, TravelMob has a Facebook-style newsfeed so that trip attendees can be updated as others add information ...
Startup Hacks: 5 Tips for Offshore Outsourcing (1)
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This is a guest post written by Michael Cerda. He blogs about startups, people and the variety hour at Cerdafied. Outsourcing product development (or parts of development) offshore sounds like a good idea at the time. After all, you can augment your dev group quickly and on the cheap. But it only seems to work under certain conditions; mileage does vary depending on the company. Longer-term enterprise development projects tend to be better suited for ...
My Real World Experience Using ZocDoc (5)
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Last week I booked my first doctor appointment using the ZocDoc service. Yesterday the company announced their first round of funding. And today I actually went to the doctor so I thought it was a perfect time to share my ZocDoc experience. The service is only available in NYC so move here if you want to use it. When you load the ZocDoc page, you can select which type of doctor you want to see, ...
Under the Radar (1)
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by Michelle Lentz It’s conference season and you, the savvy & intelligent readers of bub.blicio.us, are quite sought after. Under the Radar, brought to you by Dealmaker Media, is offering readers of bub.blicio.us a $100 discount on admission to their Under the Radar event on June 3. This particular event focuses on upcoming players in Social Media and Entertainment. Under the Radar showcases 32 different up-and-coming startups who will each give a short presentation about ...
Splotche shared as favorite Missing Muxtape? Try 8Tracks. It’s Better (11)
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Muxtape, a startup that quickly became a favorite of the Tumblr-set, has taken a nose dive, thanks to the machinations at RIAA. There are lot of folks bemoaning the loss of the service. To them, I have one word: 8Tracks. I talked to the New York-based startup’s founder, David Porter, formerly of Live365, a few weeks ago and he walked me through the service. I have been using it sporadically and, well, it works better ...
How Lijit Plans to Make Money (12)
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Lijit, a two-year-old startup based in Boulder, Colo., recently raised $7.1 million, bringing the total venture capital it has raised so far to a shade above $10 million. Whatever way you look at it, that is a lot of money for a company that, on face value, is nothing but a widget that allows bloggers to offer search on their blogs and their profiles on other social media sites such as Flickr. Curious as to ...
Elgg 1.0: Roll Your Own Social Network Releases (1)
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UK-based Curverider has released version 1.0 of their flagship open source social networking engine, Elgg. There are two versions to the release - a full version that includes a number of pre-installed socnet features (bookmarks, blogs, messageboard, status etc) and a core version that allows anyone to build their own social network on top of it (think ‘layers in an onion’). Version 1.0 comes after three years evolution of the codebase since Elgg was initially ...
10 Tips On Negotiating With VCs (1)
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So you have just finished months of grueling investor presentations and due diligence and finally one (or hopefully more) VCs have signaled their interest in negotiating the terms of an investment in your startup. This interest may be in the form of an actual term sheet that they've sent to you or a call/meeting/email indicating they would like to make an offer but want to talk about terms before shooting something over the transom. First, ...
Startup Fundraising According to Paul Graham (3)
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Paul Graham is well-known in the startup world for his past successes and most recently, the launch of Y Combinator. Y Combinator continues to garner a ton of attention, from a combination of the sheer volume in startups being launched through the program, the successful exits, and the way in which they’re shaking up the venture capital industry. I’m a big fan of Y Combinator. I wish I could have gone through the experience. From ...
Vuclip, the Secret Mobile Video Phenom (3)
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What if I were to tell you there was a mobile video startup you’d never heard of that sees 100 million page views per month from users in 130 countries using 2000 different devices? Don’t worry, pigs still can’t fly. But Vuclip, which is officially launching Tuesday after spending a year under the name Blueapple.mobi, has a mobile video search interface accessible through the web and WAP. The Milpitas, Calif.-based company transcodes videos on the ...
Coming Off Growth, Kiptronic Gets Compatible (1)
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We hadn’t checked in with Kiptronic in a while, but it sounds like the San Francisco-based startup is doing quite well. CEO Bill Loewenthal, who joined about a year ago, tells us the ad insertion provider now has more than 40 publishers as customers, including Fox, Time Warner, CBS, Viacom, The Economist, Sony BMG, National Public Media, and Conde Nast. Kiptronic delivers and tracks ads in any kind of media experienced outside the browser — ...
Imperium Renewables ‘Royally’ Screwed? (1)
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One year after the vaunted opening of its 100-million-gallon-a-year, $78 million biodiesel plant at the Port of Grays Harbor, Imperium Renewables has lost its contract to supply Royal Caribbean with 18 million gallons of biodiesel annually, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported. The news –which also revealed that the cruise ship company sold off its $10 million stake in the plant — broke just days after the Seattle-based biodiesel firm said it had closed its two-person Hawaii ...
Kevin Rose’s Next Startup to be Cleantech? (2)
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Could Kevin Rose be latest convert from info tech to cleantech? In a recent video blog post, the Digg founder fleshed out an idea for making managing the power consumption of your home’s many gadgets a little more eco-friendly and way more gizmo-geeky. The idea combines ideas that startups like Tendril and Green Plug are already working on but adds a location-based twist. Not only will your devices be remotely controllable, Rose proposes, but the ...
Startup Dilemma: To Pitch or Not To Pitch (Yourself) (3)
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Last weekend I published a post about the mistakes that startups make when pitching bloggers. That post attracted quite a number of comments from startups and PR professionals and one topic some of them seemed to be very interested in was the difference between pitching by startups in a do-it-yourself manner as opposed to pitching by PR firms. Even though this issue has already been discussed a lot, it still seems to be quite an ...
F|R: How to Avoid Feature Creep with Your Software Apps (20)
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In my favorite movie, Wonder Boys, Prof. Grady Tripp is a writer who hasn’t had a best seller in years. His work in progress is a 1,500 page behemoth. Upon sneaking a peek at the magnum opus, one of Tripp’s most devoted students takes it upon himself to point out to the professor that some of his scenes suffer from overkill — being brought to life in such excruciating detail that they actually diminish the ...
Ras2Ras, Arabic Online Comparison Research Tool (2)
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Ras2Ras, which means “Head to head” in Arabic, is a new Arabic service from Yemen, which is built around a very simple yet really interesting idea: putting any two comparable things against each other, and letting people vote on which they like best. These comparisons are called ‘battles’, and competing against each other we can find products, services, websites, people or anything really; and then through user voting we can find out which one the ...
