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Interview with Michael Witz, Mob Science

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We have one, major original IP game in development, and a couple of weeks ago we announced a publishing deal with Zynga to publish our new game on Facebook and Zynga's own platform. Michael Witz: We've been building smaller, lightweight games on the Facebook platform since early 2008. How did you start company?

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TechZulu Presents: The Annual Startup Forecast

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He began his career as a media, entertainment and IP attorney. As an investor, managed personal investment fund, Chance Technologies (1995 to Present), served as an advisor to Accel Partners (2006 to Present), served as a partner at the Yucaipa Companies (1998 to 2000), and served as the Managing Director or the Mail Room Fund (2008 to 2010).

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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

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If this idea was so big then why would they risk not being first to market, not building defensible IP for the sake of a few hundred thousand dollars extra in lock-up money at a big company? About 18 months ago in early 2008 we hired an analyst (pre-MBA), but wanted to wait until after Summer to hire a post-MBA associate. It was May.

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

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He said that there remains a very healthy market for “data oriented&# software companies because the world is moving more toward measurability and software companies with differentiated IP often get a premium in the market. Founded in 2007 by Oxford Univ. Revenue of ~$160mm in 2008. TechCrunch. GroupSpaces. students. -Is

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The first 6 steps to homegrowing basic startup analytics | Futuristic Play by @Andrew_Chen

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Where it might look something like: 1000, profile.photo.update, 1, 9:30AM 3/14/2008. September 18th, 2008 at 8:00 am. Virtual Goods Summit 2008 + last week’s Twitter links » Add New Comment. Block IP address. Block IP address. Block IP address. Block IP address. Block IP address.

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Interview: Venture Capitalists On Pitching

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Between 2005 and 2008, there were lots of companies raising half a million, and selling for 15 million. Defensibility is also big--we're not interested in the me-too's without some unique IP. Mark Suster: I would say we were hesitant in 2008. We were hesitant in 2008, because we saw a lack of realism in valuations.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

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ThingFetcher sometimes requests a (shortened) URI 30 times per second, from different IPs. A method to verify the bot All IP addresses used by a bot should resolve to server names having a unique pattern. For example Googlebot comes only from servers named "crawl" + "-" + replace($IP, ".", "-") + ".googlebot.com"