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Interview with Jimmy Hendricks, Deal Current

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We actually built that about a year and a half ago, and are bringing that back due to overwhelming demand. We were crowd sourcing artists and design. In the meantime, Groupon came along, and our media customers started to lose advertising. We learned that Groupon was taking their advertisers.

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An Evening with ImTech: The Era of Experience

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But not just novel anymore, when the film Minority Report came out in 2002, these concepts were admittedly a bit scary, eye scanning spider robots, humans being plugged into computer systems, advertisements bombarding you simply by walking into a mall. That’s sci-fi stuff, impossible in our lifetimes. Just kidding.

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Interview With CEO Jason Njoku iRoko Partners | Africa’s Netflix Set To Disrupt US TV & Cable Market

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iROKO Partners was launched in December 2010. However, I can tell you that until recently, our business model was based purely on advertising and yes, it was profitable. The team in London is around 15 people – mostly tech, design, business development and marketing people there. How does it work? We found that in Lagos.

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CallFire Bootstraps 50,000 Signups and Hires Former NetZero CEO

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In particular, CallFire has answered unusually strong demand coming from political campaigns, the insurance sector and emergency notification. He joined WebVisible, a leading provider of local online marketing software and services, as chief operating officer in 2009 and was elevated to CEO in 2010.

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Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles

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Los Angeles By: Laura Rich February 26, 2010 It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. 1 2 3 next › last » February 2010 login or register to post comments Print Email Newsletters Browse current issue › Subscribe to Fast Company › Digg StumbleUpon Facebook Buzz Up!

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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map

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Even though their business model was tweaked a little while ago to give customers additional leniency, the business is still expecting to break $100 million in revenue this year, up from $25 million in 2010. Richard Rosenblatt – Demand Media. You might know Demand Media better as the people behind Cracked, DailyPuppy, and GolfLink.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: The Kool-Aid Test: “Why do I need anything? Why do I need yours? Why do I need it now?"

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About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. ► October (1) New Video!

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