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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

I started my first company in 1999 and was admittedly swept up in all of this: Magazine covers, fancy conferences, artificial valuations and easy money. I learned to avoid unnecessary conferences, avoid non-essential costs and strive for at least a neutral EBITDA if for no other reason than nobody was interested in giving us any more money.

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Reflections on 2017: Michael Terpin, Transform Group International

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I'm also looking forward to traveling the world speaking at other conferences and to the publishing of my weekly podcast, Crypto Leaders, and video series by Agora Financial, the largest financial newsletter publisher in the nation. Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that particularly caught your eye in 2017?

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How FreeConferenceCall.com Made Audio Conferencing Free

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If you are like us, a huge number of the conference calls you participate in are enabled by a company called FreeConferenceCall.com , which has enabled free conference calls for millions of startups and large businesses alike. But, how can the company offer up free conference calling services, and what''s the story behind the service?

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Why Microsoft Needed Perceptive Pixel & Vice Versa

Tech Zulu Event

” Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer said at the Mobile World Conference in Barcelona this February that the PPI screens could connect to PCs and looked similar to the Windows 8 tablet varying only in size and price. Windows 8 also works well with the PPI screens. The PPI screens too have a huge market potential.

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Channel partners can be golden for growth

Berkonomics

In 2006, I gave a keynote speech at the Newspaper Association of America’s national conference in Chicago. By Kim Shepherd. During the speech, I spoke to a group of managers who have seen their revenues shrink by over fifty percent in recent years.

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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

Both Sides of the Table

The Montgomery Conference : one of the top technology events of the annual calendar in the United States and held every March. Founded in 2002 and expanded after founders graduated from CMU in 2006. Previously raised $100m Series A from Sequioa, Battery Ventures, and General Catalyst in 2006. We discussed: 1. TechCrunch.

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Launch to the Moon 2010, MIW style!

Eric Greenspan

snack at our desks…or in the conference room! I closed my presentation with an announcement about “ Eric Greenspan’s OSN101 Conferences &# (coming soon) and our new focus to help our customers take advantage of the real-time Internet. listen to whatever music we want! dress casually and comfortably! have fun…while working!

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