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D2 Technologies Promotes Execs, Creates Business Units

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Santa Barbara-based D2 Technologies , a developer of IP communications software for the embedded market, said this morning that it has promoted two of its executives and created two new business units.

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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. Because Webroot was looking to bring that technology in-house, and own their own IP, they were looking for the best-of-breed product, and BrightCloud fit that criteria on both fronts.

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TechZulu Presents: The Annual Startup Forecast

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acquired by AOL in 2006), a Senior Vice President of Business and Legal Affairs of Universal Studios, and a senior business and legal affairs executive at New Line Cinema and Savoy Pictures Entertainment. 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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I backburnered the concept until 2006, and in May of 2006 put the business together. We've developed a very advanced, voice-over-IP telephony network, which allows outside travel agents to do all of our customer service on commissions, which keeps our fixed costs down, and allows us to scale to thousands of inquiries a day.

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Interview with Youtuber Adorian Deck, On Making A Living On YouTube

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Adorian Deck: I started making Youtube videos in 2006, when I was thirteen years old. There are other things I've done, and I started a company recently and own a bunch of Twitter IP, but Youtube is a big part of it, and really lets me reach other people and affect other lives. How did you get into posting these videos?

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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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Interview: Venture Capitalists On Pitching

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Defensibility is also big--we're not interested in the me-too's without some unique IP. At GRP, we don't care about patents--they're nice to have, but not required--but we're looking for defensible IP in an area with an interesting, and big, idea. We saw a continuation of 2006 and 2007, where there were too many "me-too" players.