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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

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Meredith came to see me along with the CTO Marc Berte. We hired IP specialists to review prior art. We grilled their IP attorneys. The more we dug the more confident we became (and so did every advisor we used). Note: Company headquarters is in Los Angeles with major R&D also happening in Northern Virginia.

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How Jukin Media Is Turning Viral Video Into A Real Business

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Los Angeles-based Jukin Media (www.jukinmedia.com) thinks it has figured that out, and instead of trying to create viral videos, has been buying up the rights to those videos--before they really go viral--to create not just a one-hit, viral video wonder, but a sustainable business. That''s how each of those pieces evolved.

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Interview with Justin and Dawn Newton, Netki

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Los Angeles-based Netki (www.netki.com) is addressing that complexity, with a product called WalletNames, which replaces those long, complex, easy to confuse strings with easy to remember, domain-like text strings. Dawn Newton: As an example, when you go to Google.com, it is actually routing to an IP address.

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