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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

Both Sides of the Table

There’s a line of thinking in Silicon Valley that you should build product businesses rather than services businesses. This thinking is largely driven by the venture capital industry (and subsequently Wall Street) who are in search of high margin, highly scalable businesses. Why Shouldn’t Most Services Businesses Raise VC?

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Interview with Sean Broihier, Fine Art America

socalTECH

2009, at which point it was generating enough revenue for me to live on it full time. I had built the entire thing without outside capital, and with no credit. myself and two women who do customer service and tech support for me via phone and email. I grew it from 2007 through. had their first sales, which made us profitable.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: 3. Virtual Location, Location, Location

Frank Addante

2009 (3) ► May (1) A Tour of the Rubicon Project Headquarters ► April (1) "Pay it Forward" Event for Students & Aspiring Ent. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? ► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? A BIG THANK YOU. ▼ March (2) 4.

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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. He was Director of Online Marketing for Mota Motors, a BusinessWeek Top 50 Most Promising Startup of 2009 and TechCrunch50 finalist. Laura Brashier – Founder of 2date4love.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Just Say What it Is

Frank Addante

2009 (3) ► May (1) A Tour of the Rubicon Project Headquarters ► April (1) "Pay it Forward" Event for Students & Aspiring Ent. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? ► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? A BIG THANK YOU. ► March (2) 4.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Inventing Stuff, Obviously Impossible?

Frank Addante

2009 (3) ► May (1) A Tour of the Rubicon Project Headquarters ► April (1) "Pay it Forward" Event for Students & Aspiring Ent. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? ▼ August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? A BIG THANK YOU. ► March (2) 4.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 1.0: “The Bug Bite” - The Internet Needs a Card Catalogue (I guess that’s a search engine)

Frank Addante

2009 (3) ► May (1) A Tour of the Rubicon Project Headquarters ► April (1) "Pay it Forward" Event for Students & Aspiring Ent. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? ► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? A BIG THANK YOU. ► March (2) 4.

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