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05/31/2009
Image via Wikipedia “I am home.” Ramesh was one happy guy. He had a nice job with one of the leading textile manufacturers and he had a nice “room”. A “room” was how a one room apartment was described in Mumbai, the one place in the world which never seemed to have enough space for its people
05/31/2009
Mokhtar Lamani From the moment of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March 2003 the United Nations was deliberately bypassed by the Americans, dealing a fatal blow to one of the foundations of the international order: multilateralism. Until then, this principle had been considered the only guarantee of the emergence of a collective responsibility to
05/31/2009
Intel Pentium D 965 Extreme Edition Processor HH80553PH1094M Intel’s most technologically advanced Pentium® processor, … total). This innovation changes the landscape of processor design by going beyond frequency
05/31/2009
Social television is an active area of research and development. Most existing social television systems are on a conceptual stage, or exist as lab prototypes, beta or pilot versions. MIT CFP—VCDWG Working Papers: Innovation at the Edge: Social TV and Beyond
05/31/2009
by Tonya Lee Kindle is the name of an e-book reader produced by famous online retailer Amazon. The product’s first version was released in 2007, and since then Kindle’s popularity has only grown. What are the reasons behind this? The primary origin of Kindle’s popularity can be easily traced back to Amazon’s own success
05/31/2009
Cost of Content Management Software (CMS) More often than not, Adobe Photoshop CS comes in one’s mind when photo-editing software is mentioned … . Adobe Photoshop CS is used to create a high impact design that depicts creativity and innovation
05/31/2009
The Top 3 Photo Editing Software More often than not, Adobe Photoshop CS comes in one’s mind when photo-editing software is mentioned … . Adobe Photoshop CS is used to create a high impact design that depicts creativity and innovation
05/31/2009
If you are looking for good colleges, Chandigarh has a few surprises up its sleeve. Chandigarh is interesting in more ways than one — the capital of two states, it is a model of urban design and architecture, with an administration that works with clockwork precision
05/31/2009
The Ten Ways Twitter Will Permanently Change American Business (tags: twitter business marketing socialmedia socialnetworking social trends web2.0 ) 5 Reasons Why Browser Sniffing Stinks (tags: browser webdesign ) The enterprise implications of Google Wave (tags: google enterprise2.0 web2
05/31/2009
Filed under: Canada and the World , Emerging Science and Technology , Entrepreneurship and Business , Social Innovation , … and Innovation. Biotechnology “Trends from BIO 2009? Biopharmaceuticals “GSK and Pfizer’s HIV … Business and Entrepreneurship “Top 5 Takeaways on Innovation and Entrepreneurship from Tim Draper of DFJ”
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Posts about venture capital as of May 31, 2009
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05/31/2009
(Note: reposted from Planning Startups Stories ) Every startup has its own natural level of startup costs … startup level; or maybe the sweet spot. 1. The Plan For example, Mabel’s Thai restaurant in San … , and so forth. Let’s call it its natural level. That natural startup level is built into the nature
05/31/2009
CALGARY, May 28 (Reuters) – OMERS Administration Corp, one of Canada’s biggest pension funds, aims to boost its participation in the nation’s flagging venture capital industry, hoping to find opportunities in helping startup companies grow. OMERS Source: www.reuters.com
05/30/2009
Due to editorial limitations, we’re running our Friday Q&A a day late. Our sincerest apologies. Three years ago, Midtown Village-based design firm Omeda Design + Technology , led by CEO and Founder Andre Golsorkhi sat down to a brainstorming session that led to an interesting new online shopping tool
05/30/2009
Cheap Nokia n96 O2 contract deals Attractive phone with help-cut – Best Syndication (Www.OSIR.org.in) – osir.org … venture capital industry, hoping to find opportunities in helping startup companies grow … ) – techcrunch … startup companies no longer need venture capital … its participation
05/30/2009
Gigpark partners with Metro, Canada’s # 1 free national daily newspaper, powering local service recommendations – http://bit … – http://bit.ly/w3EWl # RT @markrmcqueen: Israel’s Vertex Venture Capital has 3 current Canadian startup investments. #
05/29/2009
Nokia is very intelligent player in mobile industry. Buy best product is a main objective of this brand … pension funds, aims to boost its participation in the nation’s flagging venture capital industry, hoping to find opportunities in helping startup companies grow. OMERS Source
05/29/2009
Mochi Media , a well-financed San Francisco startup that operates a decentralized network of Flash-based online games and gaming websites and offers developers a way to distribute, monetize
05/29/2009
A few quick links today that you may find interesting: MediaPost’s take on some recent news in the search engine space … quite yet. A former colleague of mine from Atlas Venture has joined a new venture capital fund … partner I worked with at Atlas Venture, has just put up a great post on his blog on the subject of “
05/29/2009
Mochi Media Network Attracts Nearly 100 Million Online Gamers A Month (comScore) – techcrunch … startup companies no longer need venture capital … its participation in the nation’s flagging venture capital industry, hoping to find opportunities in helping
05/29/2009
Robert Rapier recently drew attention to the demise of GreenFuel Technologies , the company founded on ideas from MIT and Harvard and supported by millions of dollars in venture capital funding. One of the creative ideas that the company has was to located their plant
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05/30/2009
Painted Hands In Advertisements. There are only a few advertisement campaigns that get your attention, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the brand too. Most of the advertisement campaigns get ignored over some time. Its only a few that are remembered because of the creativity and innovation
05/30/2009
ARhrrrr is an augmented reality shooter for mobile ( camera) phones … : There’s a lot of talk right now about AR and it’s misappropriation by ‘innovation crazed advertisers’
05/30/2009
Julie of IliumSoft sent me (and lots of other bloggers) … will eat very much into Google’s search dominance, but it is good to see alternatives. Innovation
05/30/2009
Extending a 140-character conversation with David Sanger and Sam Bloomberg-Rissman about editing, … : filters need data: but that’s an opp for innovation. google & alamy’s current data shapes
05/30/2009
Wireless broadband internet created a wave of success stories for online business owners … that this was an innovation perfect for small businesses around the world. Broadband Makes a Name
05/30/2009
Fortune’s impression about China: the massive, massive infrastructure build-out, the biggest in the history of humanity … . For this matter, I always think China will become the leader in innovation in energy efficiency . Why? China … . What will push such innovation to happen faster is crisis. Yes, I think China needs multiple mini
05/30/2009
Other stuff BOOK: Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art , Tim Stall MGDisplay: Visualize Parsed “Oslo” Grammars , Chris Sells Types of Collections , Nicholas Allen Velocity Preview – The Greatest Good for the Greatest Number at Microsoft , James Turner Installing VisualSVN in a Virtual PC ,
05/30/2009
Smooth Fitness Coupons, Promo Codes & Free Shipping Smooth Fitness treadmills are built on quality, reliability, … ; Save $800 in the tradition of quality, innovation, fitness, and great savings at ProForm Sears
05/30/2009
With Pixar’s Up out this weekend we all got a well deserved gift – the teaser trailer for next summer’s Toy Story 3 . Like most Pixar teasers it didn’t show us much in the way of actual plot, but it showed us all the characters we’re familiar with back on screen together
05/30/2009
I am pretty excited on what the Google developers unveiled recently which they tagged as the Google Wave . The idea of coming up with such innovation on how we communicate and share ideas/thoughts, objects and assets online has taken a giant leap so far. I personally do feel that companies
May
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Posts about venture capital as of May 30, 2009
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05/29/2009
Nokia is very intelligent player in mobile industry. Buy best product is a main objective of this brand … pension funds, aims to boost its participation in the nation’s flagging venture capital industry, hoping to find opportunities in helping startup companies grow. OMERS Source
05/29/2009
A few quick links today that you may find interesting: MediaPost’s take on some recent news in the search engine space … quite yet. A former colleague of mine from Atlas Venture has joined a new venture capital fund … partner I worked with at Atlas Venture, has just put up a great post on his blog on the subject of “
05/29/2009
Mochi Media Network Attracts Nearly 100 Million Online Gamers A Month (comScore) – techcrunch … startup companies no longer need venture capital … its participation in the nation’s flagging venture capital industry, hoping to find opportunities in helping
05/29/2009
Robert Rapier recently drew attention to the demise of GreenFuel Technologies , the company founded on ideas from MIT and Harvard and supported by millions of dollars in venture capital funding. One of the creative ideas that the company has was to located their plant
05/29/2009
Mochi Media , a well-financed San Francisco startup that operates a decentralized network of Flash-based online games and gaming websites and offers developers a way to distribute, monetize
05/29/2009
Mochi Media , a well-financed San Francisco startup that operates a decentralized network of Flash-based online games and gaming websites and offers developers a way to distribute, monetize
05/29/2009
Mochi Media , a well-financed San Francisco startup that operates a decentralized network of Flash-based online games and gaming websites and offers developers a way to distribute, monetize
05/29/2009
Mochi Media , a well-financed San Francisco startup that operates a decentralized network of Flash-based online games and gaming websites and offers developers a way to distribute, monetize
05/29/2009
CALGARY, May 28 (Reuters) – OMERS Administration Corp, one of Canada’s biggest pension funds, aims to boost its participation in the nation’s flagging venture capital industry, hoping to find opportunities in helping startup companies grow. OMERS Source: www.reuters.comFlipping through
05/29/2009
This is our periodic thank you note to our blog sponsors to describe what they have to offer. Invest Tech Finland 2009, 9.-10.6 … 2009 is a venture capital event that brings together in Helsinki the very best young Finnish technology companies from pre-seed to growth stages, leading technology-focused venture capital and angel
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05/29/2009
“Uncertainty is a feature, not a bug.” – Betaworks’ Andrew Weissman to me via GTalk in response to the backlash to Google Wave because they haven’t even suggested a monetization path for the product. If you embrace innovation, foster utility and value, and allow externalized innovation through open APIs and transparency, the uncertain
05/29/2009
I’m a big fan of netbooks, but they are not the magic device for all one’s needs, and they should not be … such innovation because people will be able to buy devices with more functions for about the same price
05/29/2009
INSPIRATIONpro Recognized for Outstanding Innovation Hoesbach/Germany, May 29, 2009 — ASC (www.asctelecom.com), a leading global provider of innovative solutions to record, analyze and evaluate
05/29/2009
The Zune HD is amazing and it’s real. Microsoft officially announced the next iteration in their Zune line some days ago, making it less of a tripped out pipe dream, and more of a totally tubular reality. The specs something like this: 3.3-inch, 480 x 272 OLED capacitive touchscreen display, built-in HD Radio receiver, HD output (
05/29/2009
The winners of the 21st DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation for consumer goods include some of the biggest brands in the industry such as Estee Lauder, Whole Foods, ConAgra, Procter & Gamble
05/29/2009
…Who could object to their marriage? …except those insufferable theocrats…Mr. and Mrs. and Mrs…or Whatever, by Chuck Colson:.. … ,” can we?Of course we won’t get an honest debate about whatever the next innovation might be. Leftists
05/29/2009
Innovation Productions have embraced line array technology for the first time, … and a pair of DX2 processors, based on recommendation. Innovation has also configured the drive racks … for extremely compact racks; as a result, Innovation will only need one per side rather than
05/29/2009
26 May 2009: In a press conference while on an official visit in Helsinki, Finland, … a brighter future,” but also “unleash investment and innovation that can underpin a new green economy.”
05/29/2009
Two-thirds of marketers have shifted their emphasis to more short-term strategies – such as pricing deals – in the last six months in response to … %), public relations (42%), innovation/test/learn budgets (33%) and promotion activities (33 … for innovation and testing/learning (40%). Nearly three-fourths (73%) of respondents say they will ideally
05/29/2009
We’re excited to announce the first annual European Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Award, for which nominations will be accepted beginning today … web event• Best Streaming Innovation of 2009—The “catch-all” category, for simply the coolest, most
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Posts about venture capital as of May 29, 2009
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05/29/2009
Mochi Media , a well-financed San Francisco startup that operates a decentralized network of Flash-based online games and gaming websites and offers developers a way to distribute, monetize
05/29/2009
Mochi Media , a well-financed San Francisco startup that operates a decentralized network of Flash-based online games and gaming websites and offers developers a way to distribute, monetize
05/29/2009
Mochi Media , a well-financed San Francisco startup that operates a decentralized network of Flash-based online games and gaming websites and offers developers a way to distribute, monetize
05/29/2009
CALGARY, May 28 (Reuters) – OMERS Administration Corp, one of Canada’s biggest pension funds, aims to boost its participation in the nation’s flagging venture capital industry, hoping to find opportunities in helping startup companies grow. OMERS Source: www.reuters.comFlipping through
05/29/2009
This is our periodic thank you note to our blog sponsors to describe what they have to offer. Invest Tech Finland 2009, 9.-10.6 … 2009 is a venture capital event that brings together in Helsinki the very best young Finnish technology companies from pre-seed to growth stages, leading technology-focused venture capital and angel
05/29/2009
Economies are in serious trouble. Many of us fear for our jobs. Others are already unemployed with grim prospects … side cloud computing has so lowered the hardware cost side of web computing that most web startup companies no longer need venture capital. Enthusiasm…
05/28/2009
CALGARY, May 28 (Reuters) – OMERS Administration Corp, one of Canada’s biggest pension funds, aims to boost its participation in the nation’s flagging venture capital industry, hoping to find opportunities in helping startup companies grow. OMERS Source: www.reuters.comFlipping through
05/28/2009
Other funding sources might be individual investors, loans that are guaranteed by the government, or venture capital firms.
05/28/2009
Or Where Do You Rate on the Entrepreneurial Scale?Are you looking for lists or directories of investors who will give you money? Are you considering paying for such a list?One word: Don’t!Raising capital for your new business … the Internet. My startup needs $X to launch and it would just be totally awesome if you could invest
05/28/2009
A lot of you have probably visited Kiva.org . It’s a great site that helps 1st world donors move money into the hands of 3rd world entrepreneurs … with just $10,000 in seed capital. That won’t really even get a startup to first base in a first-world country … and capital parity. On the shoulder’s of Kiva’s success, we can reach some profound new
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05/28/2009
Writing for the BBC’s Tech Lab, Paul Twomey, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers’ (ICANN) CEO and President, writes about the internet’s potential for change as part of their Tech Lab series. Previous contributors have included Vint Cerf, who at the time was Chair of ICANN
05/28/2009
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT ON ALTERNATIVE ENERGY Thunderbird Hangar Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada 11:23 A.M. PDT THE PRESIDENT: Thank you so much. Everybody please have a seat. Thank you so much. I’ve got some special acknowledgments that I have to make
05/28/2009
not much new to report on the garden front- things are growing and it has been chilly and rainy here so they are growing slowly … for innovation and change’- well, it’s a paraphrase. he can be longwinded at times. what you don’t hear
05/28/2009
O’Malley Release Governor Martin O’Malley Outlines Strategic Vision for the Space Industry in Maryland GREENBELT, MD (May 26, 2009) … the innovation and uniqueness of Maryland’s nearly 50 federal installations. The plan includes: 1. Creation
05/28/2009
A maior rede de lojas de brinquedos do planeta Toysrus comprou essa semana a Tradicionalíssima Faoschwarz. Radiodelicatessen adora as duas lojas … and innovation. We have enormous respect for the FAO Schwarz brand and for the special place
05/28/2009
by Scott Rodgers If you talk in todays context, undoubtedly, sky is the pinnacle when you talk about parameters like quality, innovation and customer satisfaction. If you decide to discuss about a remotely feasible and popular profession like Roofing, it really wont be a bad enough deal considering the mileage
05/28/2009
by Scott Rodgers Really these days sky is the limit when you talk of quality, innovation and customer dealing. If even you pick out a seemingly bizarre profession like roofing that doesnt really
05/28/2009
by Scott Rodgers Really these days sky is the limit when you talk of quality, innovation and customer dealing. If even you pick out a seemingly bizarre profession like roofing that doesnt really
05/28/2009
Dean Bubley submits: One of the things that struck me from the LTE summit last week was that the way that some standards bodies operate (notably 3GPP) risks, entrenching legacy business models for operators and others. This is ironic, as many standards groups, staffed by engineering-type people,
05/28/2009
INFOMATIONThe dedication of 2K Games for making a game is pretty big, a quest for innovation and perfection to represent faithfully the sport before them, this new version of NBA 2K have achieved a level of realism in Similar to level of play that will leave
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Posts about venture capital as of May 28, 2009
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05/28/2009
Estonian Development Fund has launched new seed business incubator, SeedBooster … for venture capital financing. However, the leader of the SeedBooster project, Andrus Oks … incubation program as well: the Ministry of Employment and Economy is ramping up a new startup accelerator
05/27/2009
I’m writing this on a ferry over from Tallinn to Helsinki coming back from a pitching event we organized in collaboration with Enterprise Estonia as … the conference as it mixed nicely technology law and venture capital finance. There was some interesting … of them. Fits.me , an Estonian startup, won the competition. Fits.me is currently in
05/26/2009
Being able to secure venture capital financing in the recession is something of an achievement … have outweighed up rounds. That’s bad news for existing venture investors in a startup, whose piece … firm Fenwick & West, the terms of venture financing in the first quarter of 2009 were heavily
05/26/2009
According to Pricewaterhouse Coopers, investment by institutional venture capitalists in startups grew from less than $3.0 billion at the beginning of the 1990’s to over $106 billion in 2000. Although venture capital … 1990’s? Why has venture leasing become so attractive to venture capital-backed startups? To find
05/26/2009
The offices of Transonic Combustion are not going to win any design prizes … of innovation in an industry largely dismissed by venture capital: automobiles. The company makes a special … , like any other high tech startup trying to make its mark in software, electronics, biotech, or energy
05/26/2009
Startup cost projections for first-time entrepreneurs – thedeal … dismissed by venture capital : automobiles. The company makes a special … other high tech startup … in startup companies … a new approach to venture capital . When the SproutBox founders established
05/26/2009
Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson of Foundry Group answer questions related to venture capital investment and startups.
05/26/2009
May 26th, 2009 | Tags: Business, Health, openx We’ve talked about online ad server OpenX quite a bit in the past, and for good reason … that it has raised a Series C venture capital round to the tune of $10 million, which brings the total … the round, with existing investors Accel Partners, Index Ventures, Mangrove Capital and First Round
05/26/2009
Mike Butcher of TechCrunch: For Feedback+PRIf media coverage is what you need then Mike Butcher is the man to know … to know in London’s creative scene by The Independent in 2008.Before he considers your startup worth writing
05/26/2009
…albeit I haven’t said it nearly as well as well as Georges van Hoegaerden over at Venture Company . I’ve been saying, by the time many venture funded startups have gone through their rounds … , the first thing they do is go and find a new boss at a venture fund. What’s so funny
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05/27/2009
By Ken TanakaFew cameras have faced the great expectations that Sigma’s DP1, and now the DP2, compact cameras have faced. Sigma’s own marketing tag line certainly fuels these expectations: “A Full-Spec Compact Digital Camera With All The Power of DSLR.” I never touched a DP1, turned away by widespread stories of poor usability
05/27/2009
Anyone watching the Turkish internet market would not be surprised by this press release from comScore today … with the medium.” Turkey’s sheer size is a factor here but old media’s lack of innovation will continue
05/27/2009
By Tom Kirkham Today I received an email from my 87 year-old grandma in which she penned several eloquent paragraphs lamenting the death of the written letter. Ironic stuff indeed! Since my grandma attended a free computer course three years back, the regularity of her emails has increased significantly,
05/27/2009
A quick guide to the British voting system for the EU elections | Nosemonkeyâ™s EUtopia There are elections next week across the UK. In Britain, the votes are counted using the D’Hondt closed list PR system. This is one of the few electoral systems I’ve encountered I consider to be worse than the one we use for Westminster,
05/27/2009
Why should one person’s complaint withdraw a line of clothing, just because he is offended by an image that could look like the Nazi dictator … . This rewards activism and fails the consumer; instead of variety and innovation, such a rule rewards
05/27/2009
Jim Beam(TM) Partners With Kid Rock and His 2009 Rock N’ Rebels Tour to Launch Red Stag by Jim Beam ‘A Different Breed of Bourbon’ Joins Forces With … the country.Red Stag by Jim Beam is scheduled to launch in June and is the latest innovation from Beam
05/27/2009
Before I talk about the webinar, perhaps I should explain contextual interviewing : … competencies to do this. They’ll show where Contextual Interviewing fits in the Value Innovation
05/27/2009
Interesting and thought provoking words on innovation from Sir Martin Sorrell “You can have innovation without branding, but you can’t have branding without innovation. So the real winning companies are those … as possible about innovation and I would argue branding.”
05/27/2009
International Management Essay Executive Summary Canon commenced out as a company with a handful of employees and a burning passion … success proofed through its technological advancements and innovation, profit margins
05/27/2009
[From Michael Silva ] Microsoft Corp. today announced the evolution of Zune, the company’s end-to-end music and entertainment service, to a new platform and new markets. Zune will extend its video service to Xbox LIVE internationally this fall. This marks an important development in the Zune strategy and brings the Zune brand to more than 17
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Posts about venture capital as of May 27, 2009
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05/26/2009
Being able to secure venture capital financing in the recession is something of an achievement … have outweighed up rounds. That’s bad news for existing venture investors in a startup, whose piece … firm Fenwick & West, the terms of venture financing in the first quarter of 2009 were heavily
05/26/2009
According to Pricewaterhouse Coopers, investment by institutional venture capitalists in startups grew from less than $3.0 billion at the beginning of the 1990’s to over $106 billion in 2000. Although venture capital … 1990’s? Why has venture leasing become so attractive to venture capital-backed startups? To find
05/26/2009
The offices of Transonic Combustion are not going to win any design prizes … of innovation in an industry largely dismissed by venture capital: automobiles. The company makes a special … , like any other high tech startup trying to make its mark in software, electronics, biotech, or energy
05/26/2009
Startup cost projections for first-time entrepreneurs – thedeal … dismissed by venture capital : automobiles. The company makes a special … other high tech startup … in startup companies … a new approach to venture capital . When the SproutBox founders established
05/26/2009
Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson of Foundry Group answer questions related to venture capital investment and startups.
05/26/2009
May 26th, 2009 | Tags: Business, Health, openx We’ve talked about online ad server OpenX quite a bit in the past, and for good reason … that it has raised a Series C venture capital round to the tune of $10 million, which brings the total … the round, with existing investors Accel Partners, Index Ventures, Mangrove Capital and First Round
05/26/2009
Mike Butcher of TechCrunch: For Feedback+PRIf media coverage is what you need then Mike Butcher is the man to know … to know in London’s creative scene by The Independent in 2008.Before he considers your startup worth writing
05/26/2009
…albeit I haven’t said it nearly as well as well as Georges van Hoegaerden over at Venture Company . I’ve been saying, by the time many venture funded startups have gone through their rounds … , the first thing they do is go and find a new boss at a venture fund. What’s so funny
05/26/2009
The offices of Transonic Combustion are not going to win any design prizes … of innovation in an industry largely dismissed by venture capital: automobiles. The company makes a special … other high tech startup trying to make its mark in software, electronics, biotech, or energy
05/25/2009
VentureLoop has partnered with Widgetbox to advertise the jobs available at startups that have been funded by VentureLoop’s venture capital clients. VentureLoop hosts career sites for venture capital firms. It will use Widgetbox (a widget maker that reaches 90 million people) to post job openings on Facebook, blogs and other social networks
