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Interview with Shaan Sethi, Jaanuu

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I moved down here to work as a large, $10 billion private equity fund with Ron Burkle, at Yucaipa Companies. The last piece, was we figured that we could disintermediate a broken, retail channel, by creating a customized, sophisticated, Web 2.0 That really makes private equity investors shake in their boots.

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Why The Growth Of The Internet Is Driving EdgeCast's Revenues

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The company--which is in the business of operating a content delivery network (CDN) to accelerate the delivery of web graphics, multimedia, applications, and more to end users-- recently disclosed it more than doubled its revenues in 2012, and has grown to over 230 employees--all due to a huge amount of demand for CDN services by its customers.

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TechZulu Live to Premiere "TZLaw" at 5:15 p.m. PT Thursday, October 7, with IP Attorney Denise Grayson of "The Social Network"

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Technology and IP law are at the forefront of the movie, and themes include common issues in startups regarding cash flow, IP rights, tech development, product design and distribution of equity. Gagnier has customized Gagnier Margossian LLP’s technology practice to broadly serve the needs of “startups.”

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

One investor played chicken with me by threatening not to approve my next-round financing unless I gave him more equity. But there are many great VCs also who see the entrepreneur as their customer as they should do and are realistic about how much of an impact we advisors and financiers really have. We enjoy our jobs. It was 2007.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

One investor played chicken with me by threatening not to approve my next-round financing unless I gave him more equity. But there are many great VCs also who see the entrepreneur as their customer as they should do and are realistic about how much of an impact we advisors and financiers really have. We enjoy our jobs. It was 2007.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register?

Frank Addante

Smart move on Googles part and congratulations to the geniuses at the private equity firms (Hellman & Friedman and JMI Equity) that identified this hole in the market and bought DoubleClick for a fraction of what they sold it for. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Be Best at Something

Frank Addante

It results in a lack of focus and diluted brand equity. As a result, we ended up doing a lot of one-off custom work for clients and never really gained traction in any particular area. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit This is dangerous behavior. The company eventually failed.

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