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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:01:50 CST</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Y Combinator: Summer 2012 Funding]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-news-and-stories/y-combinator-summer-2012-funding/</link>
	<source url="http://ycombinator.com/apply.html?s2012"><![CDATA[Y Combinator: Summer 2012 Funding]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[Y Combinator is now accepting applications for the summer 2012 funding cycle. It will take place in Mountain View, CA from June through August 2012.  ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:01:50 CST</pubDate>
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	<votes>1</votes>
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	<title><![CDATA[Research Reveals Engineers More Likely than MBAs to Build Companies]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-news-and-stories/research-reveals-engineers-more-likely-than-mbas-to-build-companies/</link>
	<source url="http://blog.identified.com/2012/01/new-identified-research-reveals-engineers-far-more-likely-than-mbas-to-build-and-run-companies.html"><![CDATA[Research Reveals Engineers More Likely than MBAs to Build Companies]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[In our latest edition of the “Revenge of the Nerds” white paper research series, Identified has discovered that a growing number of company founders and CEOs today are far more likely to hold advanced engineering degrees than MBAs and that the overall age of business leaders is steadily trending downward. We see this shift as a significant impact on corporate culture with younger, more technically inclined entrepreneurs at the helm. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:48:46 CST</pubDate>
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	<votes>1</votes>
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	<title><![CDATA[FounderSoup: Stanford and Andreessen’s New Startup Generator]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-news-and-stories/foundersoup-stanford-and-andreessen%E2%80%99s-new-startup-generator/</link>
	<source url="http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/28/founder-soup/"><![CDATA[FounderSoup: Stanford and Andreessen’s New Startup Generator]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[A single entrepreneur alone is vulnerable to shortsightedness, to fatigue. But with a team comes diverse perspective, encouragement, and the wherewithal to push through problems. That’s why a group of Stanford computer science and business students started the Andreessen Horowitz-backed FounderSoup program. It’s designed to give entrepreneurs with an idea or a fledgling company a chance to pitch — not to raise funding, but to recruit co-founders. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:24:55 CST</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>news</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-news-and-stories/foundersoup-stanford-and-andreessen%E2%80%99s-new-startup-generator/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[Venture-Backed Exit Activity Drops in 2011]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-news-and-stories/venture-backed-exit-activity-drops-in-2011/</link>
	<source url="http://www.dowjones.com/pressroom/releases/2011/01032012-VCExits-0172.asp"><![CDATA[Venture-Backed Exit Activity Drops in 2011]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[Dow Jones VentureSource: Fewer Deals Net More Capital as Median Price of M&A Spikes; Companies Take Less Time, More Capital to Reach IPO ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:41:44 CST</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>news</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-news-and-stories/venture-backed-exit-activity-drops-in-2011/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[How Northern Irish Startups were fooled by a convicted thief]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-news-and-stories/how-northern-irish-startups-were-fooled-by-a-convicted-thief/</link>
	<source url="http://muckraker.me/2012/01/03/the-masked-vc-how-ni-startups-and-a-government-agency-were-fooled-by-a-conman/"><![CDATA[How Northern Irish Startups were fooled by a convicted thief]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[Bogus accountant David Walsh, 38, fleeced business partners Dominic Booth and Darren Griffin out of nearly £700,000 to fund a lavish existence, which saw him driving Porsches and Ferraris, wearing flash jewellery and holidaying in Dubai. As Mr Booth and Mr Griffin’s firm – Clitheroe-based Concept Building Solutions – faced investigation by the taxman for unpaid bills, finance director Walsh still tried to bluff his way out of trouble. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:39:54 CST</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>news</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
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	<title><![CDATA[Obama Announces $2 Billion in Resources for Job-Creating Startups]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-news-and-stories/obama-announces-2-billion-in-resources-for-job-creating-startups/</link>
	<source url="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/12/08/we-can-t-wait-obama-administration-announces-2-billion-resources-support"><![CDATA[Obama Announces $2 Billion in Resources for Job-Creating Startups]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[“Today, we’re announcing $2 billion in public and private resources to help entrepreneurs start and grow their businesses. Now it’s time for Congress to do its part. It was encouraging to see members of both parties in the House come together to pass legislation that will help small businesses get ahead, and I’m calling on the Senate to do the same. But America’s small businesses can’t wait for these important tools to grow and hire faster,” said President Obama. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 07:53:00 CST</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>news</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-news-and-stories/obama-announces-2-billion-in-resources-for-job-creating-startups/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[By royal appointment: Why startups shouldn’t suck up]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-news-and-stories/by-royal-appointment-why-startups-shouldn%E2%80%99t-suck-up/</link>
	<source url="http://gigaom.com/2011/10/21/by-royal-appointment-why-startups-shouldnt-suck-up/"><![CDATA[By royal appointment: Why startups shouldn’t suck up]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[The cream of London's startup community turned out at Buckingham Palace for a special princely audience. But the best entrepreneurs won't let a brush with royalty get in the way of their ambition to overturn the establishment. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:46:48 CDT</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>news</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-news-and-stories/by-royal-appointment-why-startups-shouldn%E2%80%99t-suck-up/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[YC NYC: Paul Graham Shares The Antidote To Startup Poison]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-news-and-stories/yc-nyc-paul-graham-shares-the-antidote-to-startup-poison/</link>
	<source url="http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/26/yc-nyc-paul-graham-shares-the-antidote-to-startup-poison/"><![CDATA[YC NYC: Paul Graham Shares The Antidote To Startup Poison]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[No, despite some of the rumors that had circulated around tonight’s YC NYC event, Y Combinator is not opening a branch in NYC. But the YC crew in attendance, which included nearly all of the firm’s partners and a dozen YC alumni, did share plenty of anecdotes and advice with a massive crowd of 800+ New York-based entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs-to-be, and an array of other people interested in the world of startups. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 21:37:37 CDT</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>news</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-news-and-stories/yc-nyc-paul-graham-shares-the-antidote-to-startup-poison/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[For better or worse? The UK plans big changes for startup investment]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-news-and-stories/for-better-or-worse-the-uk-plans-big-changes-for-startup-investment/</link>
	<source url="http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/09/25/for-better-or-worse-the-uk-plans-big-changes-for-startup-investment/"><![CDATA[For better or worse? The UK plans big changes for startup investment]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[The UK government has spent most of 2011 whacking the same pro-enterprise rhetorical stake into the ground. It wants to turn the UK into ‘Venture Central’, “the best place in Europe to start, finance and grow a business”; and it claims that it will do pretty much whatever it takes to achieve this. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 23:09:28 CDT</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>news</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-news-and-stories/for-better-or-worse-the-uk-plans-big-changes-for-startup-investment/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[154 Startups Selected in Start-Up Chile’s 2nd Round of 2011!]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-news-and-stories/154-startups-selected-in-start-up-chile%E2%80%99s-2nd-round-of-2011-1/</link>
	<source url="http://www.startupchile.org/154-startups-selected-in-start-up-chiles-2nd-round-of-2011/"><![CDATA[154 Startups Selected in Start-Up Chile’s 2nd Round of 2011!]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[JONATHAN ABRAMS was in a spot. He could take the safe bet and accept the $30 million that Google was offering him for Friendster, the social networking Web start-up he began only a year earlier, in 2002. Saying yes to Google would provide a quick and stunning payout for relatively little work and instantly place the Friendster Web site in front of hundreds of millions of users across the globe. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 22:49:56 CDT</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>news</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-news-and-stories/154-startups-selected-in-start-up-chile%E2%80%99s-2nd-round-of-2011-1/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[New Patent Law Only Makes Life Harder for Startups]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-news-and-stories/new-patent-law-only-makes-life-harder-for-startups/</link>
	<source url="http://www.betabeat.com/2011/09/19/new-patent-law-first-to-file-startups/"><![CDATA[New Patent Law Only Makes Life Harder for Startups]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[The bill does try to cut back on bad patents by creating a post grant review, a nine month window in which a weak or repetitive patent can be challenged. But again, this favors larger, more established firms, who have the resources to scan through hundreds of new filings and keep tabs on all their competitors. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 23:11:20 CDT</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>news</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-news-and-stories/new-patent-law-only-makes-life-harder-for-startups/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[Summary of new patent bill (America Invents Act)]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-news-and-stories/summary-of-new-patent-bill-america-invents-act-1/</link>
	<source url="http://cdixon.org/2011/09/16/summary-of-new-patent-bill-america-invests-act/"><![CDATA[Summary of new patent bill (America Invents Act)]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[As you may be aware, the Senate passed the America Invents Act (AIA) on September 8, 2011. This act will create sweeping changes in US patent law once signed by President Obama, who has stated his intention to sign this bill. The AIA will create significant changes to the law, and we wanted to take a moment to inform you of some of its most important provisions. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:12:42 CDT</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>news</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-news-and-stories/summary-of-new-patent-bill-america-invents-act-1/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[African Entrepreneurs Are Making Ghana Into a Tech Startup Hub]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-news-and-stories/african-entrepreneurs-are-making-ghana-into-a-tech-startup-hub/</link>
	<source url="http://www.good.is/post/african-entrepreneurs-are-making-ghana-into-a-tech-startup-hub"><![CDATA[African Entrepreneurs Are Making Ghana Into a Tech Startup Hub]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[African web entrepreneurs rarely receive the support they need, but a foundation training program is helping Ghanaians put their mark on the web. Step aside, Silicon Valley and Bangalore. A group of aspiring web entrepreneurs in Ghana are looking to turn Accra into the newest startup hub. The nonprofit World Wide Web Foundation is working with local developers through a training program called Mobile Web Ghana to give participants the business and technology skills they need to leverage ideas into successful mobile web companies. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 07:31:00 CDT</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>news</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-news-and-stories/african-entrepreneurs-are-making-ghana-into-a-tech-startup-hub/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[Aid for startups, way down south]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-news-and-stories/aid-for-startups-way-down-south/</link>
	<source url="http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20110831/SMALLBIZ/110839984"><![CDATA[Aid for startups, way down south]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[Chile offers entrepreneurs a program that includes $40,000 of free equity. As of now, they're only two months into their six-month stay and said it's too soon to make a decision about when or whether they might come back to the States. They might stay in Chile if they are able to get funding. Still, said Mr. Boland, “New York is where the opportunity is. We need fuel to keep a startup running. Chances are Startup Chile is a one-time thing.” ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 08:39:23 CDT</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>news</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-news-and-stories/aid-for-startups-way-down-south/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[Taiwan’s Startups Come Out to Play, IDEAS Show 2011 Recap]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-news-and-stories/taiwan%E2%80%99s-startups-come-out-to-play-ideas-show-2011-recap/</link>
	<source url="http://en.techorange.com/ideas-show-2011-recap/"><![CDATA[Taiwan’s Startups Come Out to Play, IDEAS Show 2011 Recap]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[Taiwan's startups, investors, and users alike were present for IDEAS Show 2011. In case you missed it, fear not, TO Global has a recap of the show. Yesterday’s IDEAS Show was a great opportunity to see the state of the Taiwanese start up industry. Founders, investors, and users alike were present for the all-day event. In case you missed it, fear not, TO Global has a recap of everything that went down. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 11:21:04 CDT</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>news</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-news-and-stories/taiwan%E2%80%99s-startups-come-out-to-play-ideas-show-2011-recap/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[European Venture Capital: A Rembrandt in the attic?]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-news-and-stories/european-venture-capital-a-rembrandt-in-the-attic/</link>
	<source url="http://venturebeat.com/2011/07/27/european-venture-capital-performance/"><![CDATA[European Venture Capital: A Rembrandt in the attic?]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[Do European venture capital funds perform better than their U.S. rivals? German VC fund, Earlybird Venture Capital, just published an analysis that claims European venture capital has been producing higher exit multiples than U.S. venture capital in the last two years.The exit multiple measures how much a fund earns when it sells its equity in a company in comparison to its original investment, e.g. 10 times as much. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 22:39:59 CDT</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>news</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-news-and-stories/european-venture-capital-a-rembrandt-in-the-attic/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[Ex-Googlers Get More Funding For Their Startups]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-news-and-stories/ex-googlers-get-more-funding-for-their-startups/</link>
	<source url="http://www.businessinsider.com/the-best-way-to-get-funding-for-your-startup-be-a-former-google-employee-2011-7"><![CDATA[Ex-Googlers Get More Funding For Their Startups]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[The venture world loves ex-Googlers. Googlers who quit to form their own companies do get more venture funding than founders from other big tech companies. That's according to research from online recruiting startup TopProspect, which has job data about more than three million tech workers (mostly in Silicon Valley) drawn from sources like LinkedIn and Facebook ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 08:14:27 CDT</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>news</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-news-and-stories/ex-googlers-get-more-funding-for-their-startups/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[Service for startups busts boardrooms, embraces blogs]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-news-and-stories/service-for-startups-busts-boardrooms-embraces-blogs-1/</link>
	<source url="http://gigaom.com/2011/06/30/leanlaunchpa/"><![CDATA[Service for startups busts boardrooms, embraces blogs]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[Entrepreneurs like Steve Blank have spent a lot of time thinking (and writing) about how ineffective old-fashioned board meetings are for startups. LeanLaunchLab is a startup building software that could finally do away with the boardroom, or at least bring it into the 21st century. Entrepreneur Steve Blank has spent a lot of time thinking (and writing) about how ineffective old-fashioned board meetings are when it comes to building and scaling startups. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 04:08:44 CDT</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>news</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-news-and-stories/service-for-startups-busts-boardrooms-embraces-blogs-1/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[Study: VCs Still Addicted To IPOs]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-news-and-stories/study-vcs-still-addicted-to-ipos/</link>
	<source url="http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/23/study-vcs-still-addicted-to-ipos/"><![CDATA[Study: VCs Still Addicted To IPOs]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[It seems that Venture investors are none-too-happy with current IPO activity. According to a study sponsored by Deloitte and the National Venture Capital Association released yesterday, over 80 percent of venture capitalists from around the globe believe "that current IPO activity levels in their home countries are too low". Low enough, in fact, that it has investors worrying over whether or not it can sustain the venture capital industry. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:58:31 CDT</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>news</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-news-and-stories/study-vcs-still-addicted-to-ipos/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[Discover The Patterns Of Successful Internet Startups]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-news-and-stories/discover-the-patterns-of-successful-internet-startups/</link>
	<source url="http://startupgenome.cc/"><![CDATA[Discover The Patterns Of Successful Internet Startups]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[Today we are releasing the first Startup Genome Report with in-depth analysis on what makes internet startups successful based on data from over 650 startups. Here is a small window into the report with 14 indicators of success. Our mission is to amplify the power of entrepreneurs. With the Startup Genome Project we want to do for startups what Pandora did for Music in order to understand how innovation happens at a fundamental level and the spread the knowledge of these principles worldwide. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 00:26:08 CDT</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>news</category>
	<votes>2</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-news-and-stories/discover-the-patterns-of-successful-internet-startups/</guid>
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