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8 Key Rules for Starting a Business on a Shoestring

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s a new age for aspiring entrepreneurs, where anyone with a dream or a hobby should be turning it into a business. The bad news is that many are already doing it, with competition growing, so the longer you wait, the less chance you have of getting there first. Patent and Trademark Office site for a few hundred dollars.

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Tilofy: Making Sense Of The World Around You Using Location Data

socalTECH

Behind the easy to use interface is a powerful, real time search and discovery engine, which creates a news feed of all of the intersting things happening in your surroundings. Ali Khoshgozaran: Before we started the company, me and my partner had participated in the USC Viterbi startup competition. How did Tilofy come about?

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Decoding Signal From Noise For Wall Street, With Bitvore

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We''re rolling it out to finance and Wall Street, monitoring thousands of sources of continuously changing information, such as news, social media, internal email systems, and analyzing specific, material conditions that our customers are looking for. We''re looking for lighting bolts in time which are important.

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GumGum Makes Images Profitable for Publishers

Tech Zulu Event

You may remember the early version of GumGum from its innovative attempt to restructure the antiquated digital image licencing model (based on traditional print) into a new economic pay-per-use image-licensing model. The old media companies were resistant to change. News, Gannett, and Tribune. “We Much bigger.

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Meet the 25 Startups Competing at SXSW Startup Night 2018

Tech.Co

If the user shares the add on social media, they earn an extra $.25. Quirktastic Media (Durham, NC). Tapping into a niche community is part of Quirktastic Media’s competitive advantage. What if you could earn money to watch ads instead of avoiding them? That’s the concept behind AdWallet. Price: $1.99

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Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles

SoCal Delicious

Because its just not that hyper-competitive, Im-hiring-all-your-staff, because-Im-Google environment. This is a whole new "generation 2.0" Dropped Calls, Students Protest AT&T Network Coverage Facebook Patents News Feed, Social Net Confusion Ensues Trying to Work from Home More Efficiently?

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Interview: Venture Capitalists On Pitching

socalTECH

Mark Suster: First of all, the good news, is GRP has a $200 million fund, which we've only done three investments on. At GRP, we don't care about patents--they're nice to have, but not required--but we're looking for defensible IP in an area with an interesting, and big, idea. We're really excited about 2009.