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Interview with Quinn Curtis, BrightCloud

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Quinn Curtis: We were around since 2005, we were incorporated and funded in 2006. We're also very much marching down the path of IP reputation as well. Quinn Curtis: We were self-funded from 2006 to 2008, and in 2008 we acquired a small botnet company in San Diego, which had a venture capitalist invested in it.

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

Both Sides of the Table

The importance of the conference is that it assembles most of the top privately held early-to-mid-stage technology companies in the country (and some globally) as well as most VC’s, growth equity funds and corporate development departments from large industry players looking at technology acquisitions. total funding $1.7

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TechZulu Presents: The Annual Startup Forecast

Tech Zulu Event

He is currently a Managing Director of the Clearstone Global Gaming Fund and sits on the boards of IMI Exchange, Xfire, Playsino, ExpressCoin, GoCoin, FGL, Spicy Horse Games, KnCMiner.cn, Robocoin China and the Mastercoin Foundation. He began his career as a media, entertainment and IP attorney. MusicMatch was acquired by Yahoo!

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Interview with Kelly Tompkins, AdventureLink

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Last week, Altadena-based AdventureLink (www.adventurelink.com) announced that it raised a Series A funding round, for the firm's adventure travel reservation network. The round came from Anthem Venture Partners and the Mail Room Fund. I backburnered the concept until 2006, and in May of 2006 put the business together.

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Interview: Venture Capitalists On Pitching

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Mark Suster: First of all, the good news, is GRP has a $200 million fund, which we've only done three investments on. We are not looking to fund people in 2009, who are learning a new market, on our nickel. We often hear from entrepreneurs who say--I'll hire a great team, as soon as I get funded. We're really excited about 2009.

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Interview with Curtis Staker and William Goldbach, Confident Technologies

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When you're sitting at a computer with a known, registered IP, we know it is you and your particular category of images, and you can log in. It was funded in 2006 with about $8M in investments, and we were fortunate to have the benefit of that investment in the development of the intellectual property.

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How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener

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While handling bots, you should detect search engine crawlers, too: /* lookup your crawler IP database to populate $isCrawler; then, if the IP wasnt identified as search engine crawler: */ if ($isCrawler !== from the IP address range 65.52.0.0 Other rogue bots identify themselves by IP addy, user agent, and/or referrer.

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