Tech Town, NC

Nick Denton says media is doomed (in the near to mid-term). Adeo Ressi says the VC model is broken. Nouriel Roubini has been saying for a while now that the US is nearly bankrupt.

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I’d missed the last few Social entrepreneur meetups with vacation and work, but I’m glad I attended this one. We were treated to four strong presentations and lots of new faces. The crowd continues to diversify in all respects, most notably in terms of age, attracting a larger share of more mature entrepreneurs to balance [...]

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This is not breaking news, but one of the Triangle’s most successful tech startups, Motricity, is moving their headquarters at the American Tobacco Campus in Durham for the greener pastures of Bellevue, Washington. Motricity has been both a symbol of the kind of success tech companies can have in the Triangle area, and of the [...]

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Marc Andreesson has a truly sunny post today about the outlook for startups in a post YHOO world. Some people are bemoaning the potential loss of a silicon valley stalwart that helped set the playful tone for companies that came after it, especially one that did so much for the advancement of exclamation points in [...]

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Fred Wilson nailed this with “You had to see this coming.” Just after Yahoo disappointed everyone with its earnings and the stock dipped a good 8% I thought to myself, “now might be a good time to buy some YHOO.” Turns out I was right, as the stock is now worth about 50% more than [...]

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