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Is WebEx “Dead Man Walking?”

Both Sides of the Table

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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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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Interview with Curtis Staker and William Goldbach, Confident Technologies

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Plus, there's always shoulder surfing--when people write them down, and are grabbing for your daytimer or spreadsheet for passwords--that's treating passwords like it's the 1950's, and leaving your front door key under a door mat. We bought the assets from Vidoop, which was an LLC that was first established in late 2005 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

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There are hundreds of entrepreneurs here in Los Angeles who are building awesome companies, writing awesome books, making awesome movies and are trying to solve important problems to help make this world a better place. He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005.