Lijit raises an additional $7.1M

Lijit continues to rock as it is now reporting that is has raised an additional $7.1M in venture funding from The Foundry Group, Boulder Ventures, and High Country Venture. This brings Lijit’s total funding to around $11M (it raised angel money and 3.3M previously) . Lijit will use the money to to launch their search …

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Never enough office tours

If you just couldn’t get enough of Gwen’s office tour of Lijit last month, now you can also watch the Somewhat Frank TV version. It’s really fascinating. You get to learn about “half-paralyzed” legs, fake bands, green balls, tattoos, highly branded foosball tables, turning people into search engines and of course… pie charts. Oh, and …

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Lijit Office Tour & Million Page View Party!

Yesterday was a very special day at the Lijit offices. Whenever the team doubles the number of page views in a day, they take a shot (out of customized Lijit shot glasses). Lijit’s CEO Todd Vernon was kind enough to show us around.

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Micah Baldwin on SXSW

I didn’t get the chance to head down to SXSW this year, but from the sound of it Colorado was well represented. Gwen wrote a bit about her experience down there, and what follows below is a guest post by Micah Baldwin on the same subject. Micah asked if he could chime in with a …

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Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado rocks on

When I first heard about this idea, I was psyched. I have blogged about the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado extensively before. Suffice it to say that it’s an easy way to get your company involved in philanthropy from day one. I was glad to see that while I was sitting on a beach in Mexico, …

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Overheard

LgDB (covered previously) has recently completed their Series A funding round led by eonBusiness. I see that the mysterious 5280 angel has participated as well. Congrats to Scott Yates and the LgDB team. I love Lijit. Every month or so they rip out some ridiculously cool new feature, like this. Stan – you’re a madman. …

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