Mark Cuban

and interesting business conversations on IPOs, lock-ups etc.  My favorite: 'we priced the IPO at $19 and closed at $72 by the end of the day'

Start-Up CRIBS - LAL.com

So this a what at 24hour coding operation looks like.  The start-up is kind of a neat idea: lal.com

CrowdFlower - Crowdsourcing Tasks Receives Funding

Another interesting start-up idea:

San Francisco-based CrowdFlower, which helps big companies crowdsource tasks such as correcting business listings and categorizing e-commerce products to a globally distributed workforce, has collected $7 million in new venture financing, according to an announcement today. Harmony Partners led the Series B round, which was joined by existing investors Trinity Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners and brings the four-year-old startup’s total venture pot to $13 million.

Food Delivery Search Engine GrubHub Raises $20 Million

Also an interesting startup.  TechChrunch article here, details below:

Chicago-based startup GrubHub, a service that lets you order food for delivery or take out from local restaurants online or by mobile phone, has raised a whopping $20 million in Series D funding led by DAG Ventures with Benchmark Capital participating in the round. The startup raised $11 million in funding in November 2010, $2 million in March 2009, and has raised $34 million to date.

Top 15 Biotech Venture Capital Deals of 2010

Fierce Biotech has put together a list of top biotech investments from last year: 

Last year biotech venture capital investing began to recover from its 2009 low, growing three percent in the number of dollars raised and eight percent in the number of deals which were struck. That represents a significant bounce-back from 2009, which saw biotech investing plummet 19 percent during the worst of the economic crisis...

1. Pacific Biosciences - $109M
2. Reata Pharmaceuticals - $78M
3. Relypsa - $70M
More after the jump:

Spatial Computing

I hope to link some start ups doing interesting things.  Oblong provides spatial computing.  It looks incredibly complex, but just awesome:

g-speak overview 1828121108 from john underkoffler on Vimeo.