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

Both Sides of the Table

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. Will become foundation for EMC’s Information Infrastructure business.

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Interview with Steve Jillings, TeleSign

socalTECH

Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). What we do, is we help companies identify who is accessing their sites, and registering for their services.

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Interview with George Ruan and Donald Patterson, Quub

socalTECH

I'd really include things like the telephone busy signal, voicemail, or a lot of other different communications tools, all of which give the ability to provide information on what's going on at the other end of the channel. Our goal was to take those observations, and subsequent research, and turn that into commercial products.

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

SoCal Delicious

Initally, the product development process should likely be focused on big-picture qualitative information, like whether or not your business is addressing the right audience as well as the preferences for that audience. Block IP address. Block IP address. Block IP address. Block IP address. Block IP address.

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How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener

SoCal Delicious

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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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

SoCal Delicious

ThingFetcher sometimes requests a (shortened) URI 30 times per second, from different IPs. ThingFetcher update: The owners of ThingFetcher are now aware of the problem, and will try to fix it asap ( more information ). A method to verify the bot All IP addresses used by a bot should resolve to server names having a unique pattern.

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Roping in the Legal Eagles

InfoChachkie

Most corporate attorneys can give you general guidance with respect to securing your Intellectual Property (IP) rights, especially with respect to trademarks, copyrights and other non-patent-related items. You do not want your IP lawyer to learn the prior art associated with your technology on your dime. Copyright © 2007-9 by J.