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H2O Audio is Learning to Swim

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Providing a patented way to successfully waterproof music for divers, it then moved into action water sports. By 2006, when it first presented at the MIT Enterprise Forum, it was heading into another phase of funding and growth with new products and marketing. By 2008, H2O Audio had hit the wall.

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Interview with Jose daVeiga, KlickSports

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We started in 2006, with an in-venue trial at the Alamo Bowl, where we gave out prizes and coupons. Jose daVeiga: In 2006, we started developing the concept, consisting of a PA announcement and a Jumbotrom image. We filed for a patent in 2000, but in 2001, when we filed for the final patent, the market tanked.

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ArmorWay: Applying Computer Game Theory To Real Life Problems

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Zare'' Baghdasarian: This technology was funded by the Department of Homeland Security, the Army Research Lab, and the Department of Defense. It was started at the University of Southern California in 2006-2007. We''re now scaling it up, and we''ve also filed seven patents in that process. Where did the technology come from?

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Gene Dolgoff's 3D Vision: Using Crowdfunding To Turn the World 3D

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It was a series of different technologies we had ot develop and apply for patents on, and now that we have it, we're working on a prototype. We have a business plan and private placement on that site, and recently started searching for investors to raise the funds we needed to go into production, and start marketing and sales.

Startup 252
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How Nils Forsblom Is Reinventing Himself In Mobile With TenFarms

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Nils Forsblom is not new to the startup world -- in fact, his last startup, Fruugo, raised an astounding $48M in funding, and became one of the most heralded-- and controversial --startups in Finland. I then went back to Europe to create a company called Fruugo, which was a big startup back in the day, in 2006 in Europe.

Mobile 233
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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. I had intended to talk about how bad the process could become, not to name-and-shame anybody (and The Funded was not yet around). My blog was wiped out. Tempus Fugit. Tempus Fugit.

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Interview with Curtis Staker and William Goldbach, Confident Technologies

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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. We also assumed over 50 pending patents, from ten different patent families. C can you talk about how you ended up at Confident Technologies?