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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

Both Sides of the Table

He said that there remains a very healthy market for “data oriented&# software companies because the world is moving more toward measurability and software companies with differentiated IP often get a premium in the market. Founded in 2002 and expanded after founders graduated from CMU in 2006. ITA Software. TechCrunch.

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Interview with Kelly Tompkins, AdventureLink

socalTECH

I backburnered the concept until 2006, and in May of 2006 put the business together. We've developed a very advanced, voice-over-IP telephony network, which allows outside travel agents to do all of our customer service on commissions, which keeps our fixed costs down, and allows us to scale to thousands of inquiries a day.

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Interview with Curtis Staker and William Goldbach, Confident Technologies

socalTECH

When you're sitting at a computer with a known, registered IP, we know it is you and your particular category of images, and you can log in. It was funded in 2006 with about $8M in investments, and we were fortunate to have the benefit of that investment in the development of the intellectual property.

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The first 6 steps to homegrowing basic startup analytics | Futuristic Play by @Andrew_Chen

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Initally, the product development process should likely be focused on big-picture qualitative information, like whether or not your business is addressing the right audience as well as the preferences for that audience. Block IP address. Block IP address. Block IP address. Block IP address. Block IP address.

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Interview: Venture Capitalists On Pitching

socalTECH

Defensibility is also big--we're not interested in the me-too's without some unique IP. At GRP, we don't care about patents--they're nice to have, but not required--but we're looking for defensible IP in an area with an interesting, and big, idea. We saw a continuation of 2006 and 2007, where there were too many "me-too" players.

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How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener

SoCal Delicious

While handling bots, you should detect search engine crawlers, too: /* lookup your crawler IP database to populate $isCrawler; then, if the IP wasnt identified as search engine crawler: */ if ($isCrawler !== from the IP address range 65.52.0.0 Other rogue bots identify themselves by IP addy, user agent, and/or referrer.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

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ThingFetcher sometimes requests a (shortened) URI 30 times per second, from different IPs. ThingFetcher update: The owners of ThingFetcher are now aware of the problem, and will try to fix it asap ( more information ). A method to verify the bot All IP addresses used by a bot should resolve to server names having a unique pattern.