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How FreedomPop's Free Wireless Internet is Disrupting Telecom

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If you're FreedomPop , the Encino-based startup, you start by offering up free 4G wireless data access, and then expand to offer free, voice-over-IP services, along with home-based wireless Internet services. How do you go about trying to completely disrupt the entire telecom industry? Freemium creates a better conversion rate.

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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

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While Google and Facebook will buy “acquihires” (at least as of Dec 2011), many acquirers hate the idea of buying companies that aren’t profitable. If you spent the 3 years perfecting some hugely differentiated technology IP that may also be different. million contract over two years. I might have sold a $1.2

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

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500 Hats , January 10, 2010 Developing new startup ideas - Chris Dixon , March 14, 2010 Batch Processing Millions and Millions of Images - Code as Craft , July 9, 2010 jQuery Plugin: Give Your Characters a NobleCount - The Product Guy , March 23, 2010 How do the sample Series Seed financing documents differ from typical Series A financing documents?

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