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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. We're not yet talking about pricing and packages, but the idea is we'll have cheaper rates on prepaid and pay-as-you-go.

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TechZulu Presents: Biggest Legal Mistakes Startups Make II

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protecting your IP. When: Thursday, May 12th, 2011 – 7:00 p.m. Price: Early Bird $10 General Admission $15. TechZulu and Walker Corporate Law Group have come together to bring you the must know legal mistakes you could be making when building your startup. Topics of Discussion: 83(b) elections. employment issues. to 9:00 p.m.

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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

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A great recent example of this was a successful group of entrepreneurs who had created a company that will do $10-12 million in revenue at their system integration business (read: services business) in 2011 after having done $5 million or so in 2010 and $2-3 million in 2009. You own the IP you create.

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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. When they look at buying your company they often think in terms of “how long will it take until I earn back the profits to pay for my acquisition price?”

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How Many Angels is the Right Amount for a Startup to Have?

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I myself coined the term ENIFA (everyone now is a f **g angel) in 2011 but it didn’t stick as well as the term Unicorn did. Founder fighting, IP lawsuits, high-profile resignations, trouble fund raising, bad product release, 409a complications, community is rebelling against the CEO: You. That’s a huge problem.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

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Will Price , October 11, 2010 Georgians Should Vote No - Force of Good: a blog by Lance Weatherby , October 28, 2010 Free Software for Managing a Lean Startup - Platforms and Networks , January 17, 2010 Purpose Driven Life - Journey of a Serial Entrepreneur , July 26, 2010 Two Decade-Defining Acquisitions?

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