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Southwest Airlines Settles On WiFi Pricing

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Southwest Airlines said Thursday that it has priced out its wireless Internet services on its fleet, and will initially charge $5 per flight for any device or flight length for WiFi service. Southwest and Row 44 began testing WiFi on four of its aircraft in 2009, and has now installed the systems on 32 planes.

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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

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There’s a line of thinking in Silicon Valley that you should build product businesses rather than services businesses. It’s nearly impossible to get a services company financed by VCs. Why Shouldn’t Most Services Businesses Raise VC? Why Build a Services Business in the First Place?

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TrueCar Names CMO

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Santa Monica-based TrueCar , the publisher of real-time automotive pricing information headed by Scott Painter, said yesterday afternoon that it has appointed Todd Daum as Chief Marketing Officer. Automoti.com was sold to Hertz in 2009. Daum has also served at Overture Services/Yahoo, and also was at American Express.

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Sundae snags $36M to build out its distressed property marketplace

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Those who are looking for investment properties can use the service to widen the funnel of homes that they can discover, buy and work on. Stech said he had a brainwave about the opportunity when he finished graduate school at Stanford and moved to Las Vegas, which at the time was at the epicenter of the housing market crash of 2009.

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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

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I pointed to several Economist articles I had read that mapped historical prices of real estate for 400 years and how on average property values grow at no more 1.5% above inflation yet in many markets in the US & Europe prices were rising at 10-25% per year. And it’s driving up prices beyond their inherent value.

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

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Mobile gifting service. Founded in 2009 in Los Angeles by Michelle Crames. Provides electronic book services for content publishers; services include digital scanning and conversion, distribution to leading e-book retailers, monetization and royalty management. Total raised: $1.0mm – Read more: TechCrunch.

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Interview with Sean Broihier, Fine Art America

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2009, at which point it was generating enough revenue for me to live on it full time. Sean Broihier: When I was doing the site for my brother, every time they did an in-store promotion, or had an appearance, or they needed to change the prices on their prints, he had to call me, because I had done the website for him. the payroll.