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j2 Global Buys Two Australian Companies

socalTECH

Financial terms of the two acquisition were not announced. j2 Global owns a vast number of Internet fax, voice-over-IP, hosted email, online backup, and many other Internet services businesses globally, along with also owning technology publisher Ziff Davis. j2 said the buy is not expected to be material on its finances.

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8 Fundraising Deal Breakers Inexperienced Entrepreneurs Routinely Create

InfoChachkie

IP Confusion – Questionable ownership of key intellectual property, including non-exclusive licenses, potential infringement of a third party’s technology and/or inappropriate use of open-source tools. As such, make it easy for investors to unequivocally evaluate the veracity of your venture's IP. Share and Enjoy.

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How FreedomPop's Free Wireless Internet is Disrupting Telecom

socalTECH

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've got less infrastructure, and we're not having to pay hundreds of dollars for consumer acquisition.

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How To Make Freemium Customers Generate Revenue For Your Startup

InfoChachkie

As we did not require users to sign in, we were forced to correlate IP addresses with company names, which, in 1999, was an inexact and very manual science. After more cajoling, those of us interested in generating revenue convinced the “BuddyHelp Should (Still) Be Free” contingent to place an email address field in the page flow.

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The first 6 steps to homegrowing basic startup analytics | Futuristic Play by @Andrew_Chen

SoCal Delicious

Heres 5 steps to start exploring: View the "Best Of" list with 50+ essays on viral marketing, gaming, and ads » Get introduced: About this blog, why entrepreneurs and marketers recommend it » Receive updates by email or RSS feed or Twitter. User acquisition via each method you use. Block email. Block IP address.

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The Four Main Things that Investors Look for in a Startup

Both Sides of the Table

This post was prompted by an email exchange I had with a young entrepreneur. So NEVER talk about early exits, quick flips, tuck-in acquisitions, previous interest shown by acquirers, etc., What about Product / IP? It’s a conversation that creeps up from time-to-time. during your meeting. That’s not an M?

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

Vivek Wadwha - Campus Entrepreneurship , November 19, 2010 Best Practices for Introduction Emails - Israel Venture Capital 2.0 , March 25, 2010 Weekend Reading - The Mogul Mom , October 1, 2010 Make informal advisors part of the team. Berkonomics , November 29, 2010 Rice Alliance IT/Web 2.0

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