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AirPush's Asher Delug: Bootstrapping Your Way To $100M

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Asher Delug: Airpush is a mobile ad network, similar to an Admob or Millenial Media. Asher Delug: We have had amazing growth coming from our smart wall product, our inter-app interstitial ad product, which patent pending. We called 2011 and 2012 the years of shotgun media buying. What has been driving that growth?

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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The patents Overture held became known in small circles as Google’s ’361 problem as outlined here. Of course that’s not disputable. He built & IPOd Demand Media. To some extent – of course they are. acquired Overture for $1.63 billion (Upfront Ventures was an early Overture backer). Structural.

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10 Top Reasons For First-time Entrepreneur Failure

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, a real entrepreneur always takes a failure as a milestone on the road to success. If you expect to seek investors, or you expect to have a sustainable competitive advantage against sleeping giants, you need to register all your patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets early. How can you improve your odds?