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0 Skype founders place $6 million bet on MadBid.com

Atomico Ventures, an investment group started by Skype cofounders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, has invested £4 million, or more than $6 million,...

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0 Social auction site StuffBuff to compete with eBay

StuffBuff, a site that holds real-time auctions and provides tools to take sales viral, has launched its public beta, injecting some energy into the...

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0 TC50: RackUp sells gift cards in fast online auctions

RackUp is a startup that says it can bring the excitement of live shopping (think of the crowds outside a store before a big sale) into the online...

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0 Goodnight, Swoopo: The Pay-Per-Bid Auction Site Is Dead

When I first wrote about Swoopo back in 2008 I found it abhorrent. It was, in short, a form of gambling masquerading as an auction site. You paid for...

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0 Entertainment Auction Association Founded to Promote Integrity and Rid Industry of Deceptive Practices

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Founded by Swoopo, BigDeal.com and BidCactus, the Entertainment Auction Association was formed with the main purpose...

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0 Hotel Room Auction Startup Off & Away Raises $2 Million From Madrona

Off & Away, which applies a Swoopo-like auction model to buying hotel rooms online, has raised $2 million in funding led by Seattle-based Madrona...

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0 ToVieFor: Entertainment Shopping Meets High Fashion (With Cheap Handbags Galore!)

"Entertainment Shopping" is one of the more controversial genres of startups emerging on the web. The basic premise: you pay for a chance to get...

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0 Off & Away Expands Hotel Listings, Allows You To Apply Bid Credits Universally

Off & Away, an innovative travel startup that launched at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York, is launching a few new features today. Off & Away applies a...

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0 Penny Auction Site MadBid Secures £4m From Atomico

MadBid, a fast growing "pay-to-bid" auction site has secured £4 million in a Series A funding from Atomico Ventures. Launched in 2008, MadBid is one...

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0 Five Star Hotels At Motel Prices: Off & Away Is Swoopo For Hotel Rooms

Ever dreamt of staying in a world-class, five-star hotel at rates that would be more appropriate for your local inn? Off & Away, a new site that's...

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0 Focus on the path and experience the path

Lessons and advice for entrepreneurs from the wise venture capitalist, Howard Hartenbaum

In this segment of Lessons Learned, Howard Hartenbaum, a...

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0 StuffBuff Social Bidding System Hits Beta And You Can Try It Here

StuffBuff, a TC50 company, has officially launched bringing with it social, embeddable auctions for the masses. What is StuffBuff? It's basically an...

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0 Vator Box - Analyzing the drumbeat of the social Web

August Capital's Howard Hartenbaum is our guest host analyzing Tribevibe

In this Vator Box segment, in which we take a look at one video pitch and...

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0 Swoopo Celebrates its 200,000th Auction by Offering a Trip Around the World for Two

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today marks the 200,000th auction milestone for Swoopo, the world’s most innovative online auction site with...

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0 Howard Hartenbaum on Swoopo and Pixazza

August Capital VC shares his investment thesis on his two investments

Since Howard Hartenbaum joined August Capital in 2008, he's led two key...

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0 BigDeal.com Reinvents And Legitimizes Swoopo’s Controversial Auction Bidding Model

We recently wrote about stealth startup Project Fair Bid, which aimed to reinvent and legitimize a controversial bidding model pioneered by Swoopo....

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0 StuffBuff: Real-Time Auctions With A Viral Twist

When it comes to online auctions, most people think of the lengthy, generally unexciting (at least until the last few minutes) auctions found on eBay....

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0 Project Fair Bid Raises $4.5 Million For Stealth Auction Platform

Project Fair Bid, a stealth startup that is creating a Swoopo-like Auction platform, has raised $4.5 million in funding, according to a SEC filing....

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0 Caveat Emptor: iBidcondo Auctions Off Real Estate At Massive Discounts, But There’s A Catch

In the down economy, the housing market has taken a turn for the worst, with landlords struggling to fill apartments and developers having trouble...

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0 Unique Auction Site Swoopo Expands To Canada, Testing ‘Buy It Now’

It's been a while since we last took a look at Swoopo, the "entertainment shopping" site that's one part auction-house, one part virtual casino....

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