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Launched in the late nineties during the dotcom boom and backed by high profile investors including Guy Kawasaki's Garage.com and others, Startups.com served as a virtual incubator and was based in Redwood City, California.

The dotcom eventually closed its doors which probably is another story in itself but now the latest news is that the former CEO of Startups.com, Donna Jensen seems to have made another kill by finally selling off the startups.com domain name.

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Yet another attempt to handle the information overload. Startups in Directory is an attempt to organize the information about various startups, venture capital firms and other related entities including the amazing entrepreneurs running the show behind all those companies.

The keynote says:

"...the University of Minnesota have discovered the educational benefits of social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook. The same study found that low-income students are in many ways just as technologically proficient as their counterparts."

Access to the full article http://www1.umn.edu/umnnews/news_details.php?release=080619_3591&page=UMNN

Enjoy it!

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Need Startups.VentureCapital ? Now, you can.

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A quick look at Kwippy, a new micro, nano blogging service which is also an IM status logger plus social network.

Follow the story.

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At a macro level, ZoomIn.com is yet another site that provides storage for your photos and facilitates photo sharing and printing both online and offline. So, what is it that sets apart this start-up which made us take time off of our crazy schedules and write about them here on Startups.in/India especially after our very long hiatus?

Well to find out, let's
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The first thing that impressed us about ZoomIn.com is its attractive UI (User Interface) and the slick "About Us" page. ;) But seriously, we do think they really have a done a good job at the UI. For a fact, Internet based start-ups have a come a long way in this aspect and its quite heartening to note the positive change. We score them 100/100 on this front.

Secondly, it is the market that they are going after and their well planned execution on top of it which seemed impressive. Home delivery of photos is nearly a $7 billion industry in US alone and looking at the ever growing NRI segment, India will catch up with US in terms of the market cap in less than 10 years. While their current primary target is the NRI audience, we don't see a reason why that would stop any one in India from using their services to av

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Startups in Focus brings startups in India and around the world to the forefront and into focus.

If you are a startup and want to be in focus, just drop us a note with a link to your logo, what you do, who you are and when the startup has been founded and we'll focus on you.

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Angel Customer - An individual customer or a client of a product or a service who invests his or her own money into the startup providing those services.

Sounds crazy? It shouldn't.

Just think about it. How good would you think a product or service must be if one or more customers using it is willing to invest his/her money into the company behind it.

Darn good! I personally would atleast think so.

Such an act is definitely an excellent form of attestation to the product/service and would stand as a great testimony beyond doubt.

Still think I'm crazy? ;-) Check this out - WhyPark.com says it raised US$230K in angel funding from one of its customers - an investor and domainer named Alan Macomber.

Do we have any "Angel Readers" on Startups.in ? If yes, let's talk ;-) We'd love to have you join our bandwagon.

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Indians make the world's best power point presentations, but converting them into executable plans is always a challenge.