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Interview with Ryan Disraeli And Stacy Stubblefield, Telesign

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For this morning's interview, we thought we'd catch up with two of the co-founders of Marina Del Rey-based Telesign (www.telesign.com), Ryan Disraeli and Stacy Stubblefield. We were really focused on customer acquisition. Telesign--which now has over 300 employees-- recently was acquired by BICS in a deal worth $230M.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 3.0: Internet advertising is good. No, it’s bad. Oh wait… it IS good!

Frank Addante

Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. The acquisition went through and that was the start of a terrible chain of events. Startup 3.0: Be scrappy. ReaXions, Inc.