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Venture Capitalists Not So Convinced $100 Million Mobile App Companies Exist
Venture Capitalists Not So Convinced $100 Million Mobile App Companies Exist
moconews.net — We've all read the stories : a small developer hits it big with an iPhone app, raking in as much as $800,000 in five months as iShoot's creator Ethan Nicholas did. These anecdotes don't seem to be going away, the latest to crop up is the news that ... (more) Venture Capitalists Not So Convinced $100 Million Mobile ...
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Twitter Aggregator Sawhorse Media Raises Seed Round, Launches Pets, Celeb Sites
paidContent — Sawhorse Media, the company behind the Shorty Awards, has raised an undisclosed seed round to support its growing list of Twitter aggregation sites, paidContent has learned. Backers include Fred Seibert and Marta Wohrle. Sawhorse exacs claim the company is "90 percent bootstrapped." The brevity-centric content company already has Musebin, a one-line music reviews site; VentureMaven, a site that collects tweets from VCs; and MuckRack, which follows reporters on Twitter (including a number of ContentNext staffers). ...

Twitter Aggregator SawHorse Gets Funded, Adds Two Sites
ReadWriteWeb — Streaming themed tweets in such fascinating verticals as journalism, venture capital, and music, Twitter aggregator SawHorse has raised an undisclosed seed round to support its growing network of sites. Its two newest sites are focused on pets and celebrities. Sponsor As we resign ourselves to the fact that the post-Oprah Twitter is undeniably mainstream, the SawHorse sites become an interesting way to parse through the different microcosms and communities that exist in the wider web of sites and ...

Twittorati Will Show You How Awesomely Fascinating Bloggers’ Lives Are (Or Not)
TechCrunch — ... and VentureMaven. Luxury car manufacturer Infinity is sponsoring Twittorati. Technorati Media has been through a roller coaster of highs and lows over the past year. Last June, the company ...

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