Month: November 2012
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Who is Carl Icahn? Apple drama. Suddenly, Comcast is cool.
Yesterday, this billionaire dude Carl Icahn bumped up Netflix shares 14% by announcing that his fund now has 10% stake in the company. Sounds like he’s trying to get the company sold to one of the larger companies providing video streaming, like Microsoft, Amazon, Verizon or Comcast. (link) Also yesterday, Dave McClure’s 500 Startups announced […]
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Amplify’s Invested.in raises $830k, Science’s Dollar Shave Club raises $9.8m
Amplify is an awesome accelerator in Venice by the beach on Windward circle (I just had lunch with their investment director today). One of their portfolio companies, Invested.in just announced that they raised a round of $830k from a large number of angel investors (a fit strategy for a crowdfunding platform). Rather than creating their […]