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- Turning Out The Lights: ConSentry Networks - Touted as the next big thing in IT network security burned through $81 million in venture capital and recently closed its door.
- The Daily Start-Up: Merging The Gaming Worlds - an ambitious start-up is looking to integrate multi-player PC gaming with offline, handheld play on a proprietary device. Also, how a juiced-up Wall Street created this economic mess, the definitive explanation about the future of venture capital, and what happens when two entrepreneurs get married.
- Guggenheim Looks To Capitalize On Distressed VC Deals - Guggenheim looks to take over a company or its assets after other investors have spent millions developing a technology and then run out of gas. The idea is to acquire the technology cheaply, get a product to market within a year and exit the company in about two-and-a-half years, a much faster timeline than that followed by a typical venture firm.
- One Start-Up’s Quest To Prevent Oil Thefts - U.S. government cracks down on refineries here that knowingly purchased stolen petroleum products from Mexico, one start-up, Hi-G-Tek Ltd., stands to benefit by helping oil and gas concerns protect their assets.
- The Daily Start-Up: Will VCs Actually Use This Term Sheet? - The Funded founder Adeo Ressi is at it again, dreaming up a simplified term sheet inspired by an entrepreneur and a venture capitalist. (COMMENT: Good luck with that one.)
- Turning Out The Lights: Tipjoy - The Cambridge, Mass.-based company, which launched early last year to become the Internet’s tip jar for digital content, has announced it is shutting down its operation.
- A Drugmaker’s Fast Lane To Venture Capital Liquidity - MediQuest Therapeutics Inc. is taking what it hopes will be a streamlined approach to providing liquidity for its venture backers: licensing out its portfolio of drug candidates and distributing the proceeds. (COMMENT: Nothing revolutionary about that)
- The Daily Start-Up: A Case For More VC Regulation - One of the few detailed arguments in favor of regulating the venture capital industry.
- More Turmoil For Online Music Start-Ups: Slacker CEO Steps Down - Dennis Mudd, chief executive of music service Slacker Inc., has left his position with the company, an investor in the company has told VentureWire
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- Courtesy of VentureWire's Venture Capital Dispatch
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