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Rdio Rounds Up More Cash for Online Music

No one has figured out how to make online music subscriptions really work, but people are still trying: Rdio has raised a new $17.5 million round led by Mangrove Capital. The company had previously raised at least $6 million from Skype and its founders; the new dollars are supposed to help it compete with Apple’s iTunes and a host of other subscription services, including Spotify, Rhapsody and MOG.


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I break down a product the same way I break down a character I’m going to play. I try to get inside the mind of that person — the user, the consumer — and figure out why they’re doing something and what they want from it.

— Ashton Kutcher’s investing philosophy