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Here’s 20 Startup Ideas and $100 Million. What Are You Waiting For?

100m_giveaway If you are thinking about starting a new company, read this story http://money.cnn.com/2006/08/21/technology/100milliongiveaway.biz2/index.htm in our September issue. (Or, for a quick preview, watch this slick Web-only video segment http://www.cnn.com/video/player/player.html?url=/video/business/2006/08/23/100.million.dollar.giveaway.cnn&source=money that CNN produced about it). B2.0’s Michael Copeland and Susanna Hammer went out and asked investors like Howard Schultz, Vinod Khosla, Steve Case, Tim Draper, Elon Musk, and Danny Rimer what startups they would like to invest in next and how much they would pony up for the right busines splan and the right team.

Full Story: http://business2.blogs.com/business2blog/2006/08/heres_20_startu.html

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What drives Web 2.0 VC bets?

In “Memo to Web 2.0 VCs: What happened to Doriot’s rules?” I posited that Web 2.0 VC investments lack the financial and intellectual rigor demanded by the founder of modern day Venture Capital investing, Georges Doriot:

In 1946, ‘A Frenchman with a cool eye formed a publicly traded company to assess thousands of business proposals — and funded the best ones, inventing the modern practice of venture capitalism.’

Full Story: http://blogs.zdnet.com/micro-markets/?p=366

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