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Why The Media Has Been Wrong About YouTube Networks

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Selling at smaller retailers will net you fewer customers and higher margins. Give access to music that is legal, avoiding lawsuits and ensuring revenue isn’t captured by other IP owners. Offer tools to allow content producers to build their own websites & mobile apps.

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Interview with Cliff Rees, XCast Labs

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It seems that every week, a new, Voice-over-IP provider firm surfaces in the market, either providing PBX services, voicemail, or other similar services. What is your VoIP service all about, and how is this different from what seems to be lots of Voice over IP service providers? Cliff Rees: We're a software as a solutions company.

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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

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It would not be a big stretch to image a well run service business like this making 15-25% net profit margins. You own the IP you create. My advice wasn’t to shut down all product / IP initiatives but rather to be clear on their purpose and how to monetize them. That is $12 million in profits over 3 years.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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To interconnect these computers we needed IP-based telecommunications equipment build by the likes of Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks. The problem that I’ve seen historically in cities like Los Angeles, San Diego or Seattle is that their historic high-net-worth individuals didn’t come from the tech startup world.

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Get Inside the Mind of an Angel Investor

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some fun, big tech issues like privacy, net neutrality, location-based services and real-time data. Entrepreneurs should also use social media (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.) Net neutrality (1:09:00). What is wonderful about this interview is that I got Tom on the record on: what angels look for and how they work?

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