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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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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

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He’d been working at a well-funded startup for about a year and had come to terms with the fact that the startup was really a pretty dumb idea. Why Lawyers Don’t Run Startups - Steve Blank , May 27, 2010 Startups need to have a great lawyer, accountant, patent attorney, etc. I Be specific. It's a great talk. they released a new 2.0

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Interview: Venture Capitalists On Pitching

socalTECH

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 Eric Golden, Equipois

socalTECH

Eric Golden: Yes, we launched in March of 2008, and we had at that time just completed about 9 months of pilots. We understand the firm is venture funded? One, is it significantly reduces injuries, which is actually a $200 billion a year problem for U.S. Is the technology available today, and are people using it?

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CallFire Bootstraps 50,000 Signups and Hires Former NetZero CEO

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.” Founded in 2007 by Ravishanker and a small group of computer science graduates from the University of California, Irvine, the University of Southern California and Harvard University, CallFire has achieved just under $10 million in sales, is profitable and has built that substantial user base–all without venture funding.

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Interview with Dave Waldman, Bccthis

socalTECH

Dave Waldman: We started quite a while ago, back in almost September of 2008. We raised funding in September of 2009, about six months ago, raising $500,000 from private angel investors. How long has Bccthis been around? My co-founder, Michael Steuer and myself both came from Twistbox, which was later acquired by Mandalay Media.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

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