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We are proud to be able to announce the new CouchTycoon.net product called 'Venture Poster'.

During the last months we have been working really hard to set up a product which we hope you will love. As you probably know the CouchTycoon.net startup started with the idea of public startup financing. And we were testing some different approaches during our private beta stage with hundreds of nice and insightfully users. Thank you so much btw!!

Finally we came to several important conclusions. One of them is, that it is almost impossible to start an innovative idea from outside Silicon Valley. And so we decided to go Silicon Valley - for now (follow the CouchTycoon Roadshow on our blog). Seriously, there were a lot more conclusions we figured out concerning the 'crowdfunding' product. Finally the result of all our conclusions is the Venture Poster. A really awesome product that reminds of vintage company stocks our grandfather owned. It is a handmade, signed and numbered silkscreen poster - designed by gig poster artists you probably know from flatstock festivals. Venture Posters will be issued by CouchTycoon.net in limited editions of 200 at regular intervals.

The apptera startup announced that they raised 10.5 million Dollars from Alloy Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Walden International. Apptera is a mobile advertising network that - Mr. Idle thinks - is a really important niche. Because mobile internet and media use increases rapidly. Mr. Idle also liked to be invested in a mobile advertising startup:)


via TechCrunch

Help the Facebook application start-ups to get funded. The best of them can raise money from fbFund. On fbFund now you can vote for one of the contest participants. But not only best five teams will be funded by fbFund. There was also a previous round where 25 participants got 25000 Dollars. Round two is open to vote from November 11. to November 30 where 225000 Dollars will be given to the best five teams. All submissions are reviewed by Facebook users, the Facebook fbFund team and an advisory committee.
Winners will be announced on December 12.
Vote now and support your favorite Facebook application!
Read more about the fbFund and how to apply and how to get funded on their Facebook developers page.

The California based automotive start-up Tesla Motors got 40 million Dollars. But not from venture capitalists this time. Tesla secured the 40 million $ in convertible debt, after their last try to raise 100 million $ last month failed.
I personally hope that this is not the beginning of the end of an inspiring start-up, because I was really impressed when I visited the company at Menlo Park this summer. And of course I also want to see the Tesla roadster on german streets too;)
Source: TechCrunch