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TeleSign Gets Patent

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Los Angeles-based TeleSign , the provider of phone-based authentication and verification services which is headed by former FrontBridge and Vantage Media CEO Steve Jillings, said today that it has scored a U.S. Patent 7,945,034 for the technology behind its PhoneID verification technology. According to the firm, it was awarded U.S.

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6 Sweet Spots That Have Sustained Many Great Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Steve Jobs summarized his intrinsic motivation way back in 2005 at Stanford in a talk titled “ How to Live Before You Die.” Having media corporations owned by conglomerates is just not an attractive idea to me." Do it for meaning. Satisfaction of doing something great. Helping others achieve their goals.

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Interview with Kanaan Jemili, uCast Global

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Kanaan Jemili: uCast Global is a digital media company that is looking at creating a scalable global solution for online video. The second ones are media brand and companies and we have several of those brands on our platform. In 2004 and 2005, I was at DivX in San Diego, and I was head of product there. What is uCast?

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6 Powerful Drivers Shared By Successful Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Steve Jobs summarized his intrinsic motivation in 2005 at Stanford in a talk titled “ How to Live Before You Die.” Having media corporations owned by conglomerates is just not an attractive idea to me." Do it for meaning. Satisfaction of doing something great. " Helping others achieve their goals.

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Intrinsic Motivation Models Lead To Business Success

Startup Professionals Musings

Steve Jobs summarized his intrinsic motivation in 2005 at Stanford in a talk titled “ How to Live Before You Die.” Having media corporations owned by conglomerates is just not an attractive idea to me." Do it for meaning. Satisfaction of doing something great. " Helping others achieve their goals.

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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. In 2011, we had two of our patents approved.

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6 Top Motivations That Drive The Best Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Steve Jobs summarized his intrinsic motivation in 2005 at Stanford in a talk titled “ How to Live Before You Die.” Having media corporations owned by conglomerates is just not an attractive idea to me." Do it for meaning. Satisfaction of doing something great. " Helping others achieve their goals.