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Is WebEx “Dead Man Walking?”

Both Sides of the Table

An amalgamation of other people’s services might win business with some companies (there is an age old debate between “best of breed&# versus “integrated solutions&# ) but in the end I doubt a business that goes “a mile wide and an inch deep&# can be a huge company. So Skype was ubiquitous. billion).

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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). Telesign provides authentication services for the largest web companies in the world.

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Why Taking Some Risks in the Sales Process Can Improve Results

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If you want that kind of service focus I think we’d be a better fit than your internal IT department.” We have a great screening process. There was a meme that started going around LPs around 2005 that “I’m not sure LA is really its own venture market” and some LPs actually believed that.

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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). Steve was was walking through (live) the process of creating a Facebook ad. MongoDB at Etsy - Code as Craft , May 19, 2010 Hi!

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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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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. ” These are people with whom there is a likely match for your product or service. If you’re raising money in Financial Services I’ve never met a more knowledgeable investor than my partner, Brian McLoughlin.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

SoCal Delicious

Laura Brashier is the founder of 2date4love , an online dating service for singles who are unable to have sexual intercourse but still want to find love. Twelve years ago, Laura, a hairstylist from California, was diagnosed with Stage IV cervical cancer. Laura Brashier – Founder of 2date4love. Michael Schneider – CEO of Mobile Roadie.