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How NinjaThat Taps The Power Of Students For Business Tasks, with Atif Siddiqi

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Do you have a small task (graphic design, page layout, UI) you wish you had someone do, in an affordable way? Atif Siddiqi: We've created a student centric marketplace, that allows businesses, working professionals, and alumni to hire student workers on demand. Atif Siddiqi: We've been operating in the college space since 2005.

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Interview with Ilya Pozin, Cofounder of Pluto TV

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I started a web design company, and ended up going to college in Florida, but kept on running the company on the side. When I got to LA after I graduated from college in 2005, I pursued it full time, and we quickly grew that company to over $5M in revenues a year, without any kind of funding. That's the idea that sparked Pluto TV.

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

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I first met Ethan in 2005. He then pointed out that for service-based businesses every slot that went unfilled the provider had very high fixed costs and very low marginal costs and people ought to be willing to sell low-demand or last-minute expiring times at a discount while selling premium times at full price or even a surge price.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

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In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. By 2005 I had moved back to the US and we started hiring US employees (The first two employees we hired had both grown up in India! Felipe grew up in Brazil. More red tape.

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Interview with Jerry Fitch, Teridian Semiconductor

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Jerry Fitch: The business management team at Golden Gate Capital bought Teridian in 2005. We've got four generation of parts in the market, with three in production, and the fourth sampling--with a fifth in design. For our readers who might not be familiar with Teridian, can you describe what your business is?

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Interview with Alex Kazerani and James Segil, OpenPath

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We felt that pain ourselves, at our prior company, so we wanted to build great technology in a beautiful design, which was easy to use and deploy, which is how Openpath came to be. In 2000, James and I started KnowledgeBase, which we sold in 2005. We're now ramping up the team and production and capabilities along that demand curve.

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TVSync’s Open API Uses Video and Audio Recognition Across All Four Screens

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TVSync’s parent company Voible , has provided fingerprint protection technology to most major movie studios and TV networks since 2005. There was an inkling of the changes to be when interactive TV services like NetFlix, Hulu and On Demand debuted as frenemies to traditional TV viewing. TVSync is not alone in developing ACR.