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We all read on TechCrunch about the huge Internet acquisitions that are seemingly made every week.  YouTube sold for over a billion dollars, Bebo sold for $850 million, etc.  While those big acquisitions get all the headlines, there’s a very active market in buying and selling smaller websites that doesn’t get nearly […]

Yesterday I wrote about the need for new forms of startup financing and what one interesting fund called Founders Co-op is doing about it. There’s a lot to like about both Founders Co-op and its much more established counterpart Y Combinator, but neither is perfect. Which got me to thinking: from an entrepreneur’s […]

Paul Graham, founder of Y Combinator, recently wrote about how the traditional venture capital model is broken, at least when it comes to Internet startups. Eight to ten years ago, it often tok millions of dollars to launch an Internet company. Now that same company can often be launched for just hundreds of […]

Yesterday TechCrunch reported that FatDoor, originally envisioned as a social network for neighbors, was abandoning its business model. FatDoor is another in an increasingly long line of well funded Internet startups focused on the local market that have gone out of business or changed their focus over the last few years. Why is […]

YourStreet, the startup I run, has been fortunate to get a good amount of press coverage since we launched last November. TechCrunch, PBS, PC World, Mashable, MIT Technology Review, Presstime magazine, the Wall Street Journal, and even the Kim Komando radio show have all written about YourStreet. I am regularly asked how other […]

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Google’s launch of its Google Apps Engine web hosting service on Monday puts it in direct competition with Amazon’s web services offerings. But Google’s step goes beyond hosting web applications for startups - the company is now directly vying with Amazon to become the foundation upon which to build new Internet companies.
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