There's no shortage of bookkeeping software applications for self-employed people and small businesses on the market today, but that's not stopping startups and venture capitalists from trying to get a piece of that action with fresh products. GoBootstrap was one of the startups taking a swing at catering to small-business owners with a dead simple, web-based tool that allowed them to manage their income and expenses while forecasting their federal and state taxes based on input data. One look at the embedded logo will teach you that GoBootstrap is now relaunching under a different name, Outright, along with a vote of confidence and $2 million in venture capital funding from First Round Capital and Shasta Ventures, with additional investments from Jeff Clavier’s SoftTech VC and a number of (undisclosed) angel investors. Full story...
New York-based hedge fund Elliott Associates L.P. in a letter to Novell's board of directors dated March 2 offered to purchase the infrastructure software company for a cash price of $5.
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Editor's note: This post was written by Joe Stump, the co-founder of SimpleGeo, a geolocation infrastructure company.