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A Chat with Chris Tragos of Jetpack

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Chris Tragos: Jetpack is an ad platform, which I would describe as the most beautiful, best engaging, and most performant ad product for desktop, mobile, and tablet. Our business is helping those guys make more money, through our better ad product. Why don't those companies serve publishers that well?

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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

Both Sides of the Table

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. And stop effing around trying to create a product company.&#. You’re a small fish. You’re a small fish.

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Interview with Sean Broihier, Fine Art America

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more--or you can go online and use Fine Art America (www.fineartamerica.com), a Santa Monica company which is doing. Fine Art America handles all of the details of fulfilling sales for images. The company's founder and CEO is Sean Broihier , who told us all about the site--and also how. from photographers and artists.

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How A Pivot Turned Vantage Media Into A $100M Plus Business

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The company started here in 2002, and we were basically an agency. As you might or might not remember, I joined in 2010 with a vision to turn the company into a true technology company, and pivoted the company to ad technology. Who we are today, is an ad technology company.

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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

Both Sides of the Table

I say this as somebody who recruited several Harvard, Wharton and similar MBAs at my first company (the one where I acknowledge that I made every mistake in the book). And I feel that this skill is invaluable in both building a start-up company and in being a VC. I paid up for the diploma but can’t say that I saw better results.

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The Master Checklist of EVERYTHING You Need to Start a Business

Jason Nazar

Pick a company name and check any potential trademark infringements on Trademarkia or KnowEm. If you are inventing or creating a product, understand patents and register for one at the USPTO. Check Google , Yellow Pages , and local directories to ensure your business name is not taken. Open your company bank account.

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How to Save MySpace

Jason Nazar

I know many of their founders and early employees, and one of the co-founders of Intermix (the parent company of MySpace) is an investor. Management will have to be willing to forgo millions in revenue in the short term by giving up the coveted advertising on the login page, to rebuild a compelling user experience. Court Star Power.