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How Jukin Media Is Turning Viral Video Into A Real Business

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When our Youtube views are driven up, that drives more licensing demand for the video, with other shows interested. Is there a lot of competition for the rights to all of that content? Lee Essner: That''s one of the competitive edges we have. All of those revolve around the central thesis that you have to own your own IP.

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New Paths Toward Convergence

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This is driving massive demand for new digital content distribution networks, in addition to an entirely new ecosystem of business and technology relationships. The competition is drawing players from diverse marketsincluding digital media, internet services, and Telecom/IP communications companies.

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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

Both Sides of the Table

Was there consumer demand? We hired IP specialists to review prior art. We grilled their IP attorneys. Meredith Perry came up with the idea for uBeam while still in college at University of Pennsylvania and like many great inventors won her school’s business plan competition. No brainer.

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ConTraps Part III – Contract Traps Entrepreneurs Should Avoid At All Costs

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Although necessary, “stepping stone” approach of initially utilizing smaller VARs to enter new geographic markets can become problematic as your business grows, because large VARs often demand uncontested, broad, multi-country coverage. This is generally a straightforward and uncontested provision.

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Interview with Cliff Rees, XCast Labs

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It seems that every week, a new, Voice-over-IP provider firm surfaces in the market, either providing PBX services, voicemail, or other similar services. What is your VoIP service all about, and how is this different from what seems to be lots of Voice over IP service providers? Cliff Rees: We're a software as a solutions company.

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Interview with Wes Nichols, MarketShare

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Its primary goal is to focus on identifying what is truly driving demand, analytically, so that our customers can optimize their activities. Our analytics team is second to none, in our ability to leverage our IP and methods to isolate the effect of those activities, and look at them to figure out how to drive outcomes.