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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

Both Sides of the Table

There’s a line of thinking in Silicon Valley that you should build product businesses rather than services businesses. They have created two internal technology “products&# and wanted to figure out how they could turn their services business into a product business that could be financed. This team is talented.

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4G Coming to LA and 6 New WiMAX Markets in 2010

Tech Zulu Event

Newly announced markets that will see 4G in 2010 are Cincinnati, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Miami, Pittsburgh, Salt Lake City and St. With Sprint 4G, the mobile Internet potential is virtually limitless, especially for those using a Sprint 4G-powered product, such as Overdrive(TM) 3G/4G Mobile Hotspot and Sprint 3G/4G USB Modem U301 by Franklin.

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AT&T’s 1.9 Billion Investment In Greater L.A. Area Expanding 4G LTE

Tech Zulu Event

The telecommunications firm says people in Los Angeles increasingly depend on mobile Internet connections for communication, entertainment and productivity at work, at home and everywhere. Project Velocity IP. billion Investment.

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TechZulu Presents: The Annual Startup Forecast

Tech Zulu Event

He began his career as a media, entertainment and IP attorney. Successfully negotiated ground breaking deals with several of the major media companies whose content became the basis for many of these products. Richard Wolpert - Managing Director of Amplify.LA & Venture Advisor at Accel Partners.

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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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In a Strong Wind Even Turkeys Can Fly

Both Sides of the Table

And coming to the end of 2010 I feel a sense of reminiscence of some of the trends from a decade ago. It’s why as an investor I look for talented teams with long-term vision, a unique point-of-view, differentiated IP and a desire to build something enduring. Double-down on great people, process & IP.

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8 Intellectual Property Items Every Startup Needs

Startup Professionals Musings

When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents. In reality, patents are only one of at least eight items that should be in your IP portfolio. Select it well – marketers will tell you that you will be selling your name, more than your products. Trade secrets with employment agreement.

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