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Interview with Steve Jillings, TeleSign

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Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). They started in January of 2005. We take that number, and send them a one-time PIN code.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

He started targeting the ad by location and interest, and the number of potential people he was reaching began decreasing on screen (Facebook tells you dynamically). friend of mine asked me to chat with a startup he’d invested in. Steve was was walking through (live) the process of creating a Facebook ad. Here’s why. I know I do.

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Interview with Curtis Staker and William Goldbach, Confident Technologies

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It has nine pictures or more on screen, and in each location there are pictures that contain pictures from your category or have different letters in different locations. We bought the assets from Vidoop, which was an LLC that was first established in late 2005 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. But, it was important that was in Southern California.

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Is WebEx “Dead Man Walking?”

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So Skype was ubiquitous. billion (plus an earn out that could have totalled $4 billion but didn’t in the end) in 2005 before selling 65% of the company in 2009 for $1.9 So at least they preserved some value and they didn’t “ pull an AOL “ But it wasn’t exactly the boon that they had expected.

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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy

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I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. As with any sales campaign you need to: Qualify your buyers early so you focus your scarce resources on people likely to buy your product. Partners make investment decisions. Already invested in one of my key competitors?

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Why Taking Some Risks in the Sales Process Can Improve Results

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There are probably 30 or so funds in the US that have similar backgrounds so while we feel great about our track record, our team and our performance but it’s hardly enough to say why you MUST invest in Upfront. We have a great screening process. I think that’s where many startups and even VC funds go wrong.

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