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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

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There’s a line of thinking in Silicon Valley that you should build product businesses rather than services businesses. It’s nearly impossible to get a services company financed by VCs. They feel very confident they can hit $18 – 20 million in 2012. Why Shouldn’t Most Services Businesses Raise VC?

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

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According to Ken McNeely, President – AT&T California the AT&T network kept 99 percent of all Los Angeles-area wireless calls connected in the fourth quarter of 2012. Project Velocity IP. billion Investment. McNeely said,“I’m proud of the investment AT&T continues to make in California. 950 Wireless Network Upgrades.

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Interview with Steve Jillings, TeleSign

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Steve is now in charge of Marina Del Rey-based TeleSign (www.telesign.com), which has quietly become a huge force in providing authentication services to nearly every major Internet service out there. 2011 was an incredibly huge year for us, and 2012 will be the same way. To learn more, we caught up with Steve.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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To interconnect these computers we needed IP-based telecommunications equipment build by the likes of Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks. Web Services, led by Amazon’s AWS, which reduced the costs a further 90%. In 2012 Upfront Ventures raised its 4th venture capital fund – this one was $200 million.

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TechZulu Presents: The Annual Startup Forecast

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Peter Csathy is CEO of Manatt Digital Media Ventures, a division of Manatt Digital Media, which offers innovative full-service business consulting and legal services, as well as venture capital. a highly respected global video company that services virtually all media companies and 70 of the Fortune 100. On Demand).

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

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by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. So money spent should add equity value or create IP that eventually will. (it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0

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Pausing To Reflect: Veteran’s Day | Interview with Veteran and Tech Enthusiast Dustan Batton

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Do you have any rituals you observe on a day when our country honors you and your fellow Armed Services members? DB: My service was up in August of 2008, and I moved back to the U.S. I also joined the staff of CALinnovates in 2012. MM: Thank you for your time and your service to this country. MM: What happened next?