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How Halla Is Using AI To Personalize Food, With Spencer Price

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We spoke with CEO and co-founder Spencer Price to learn more about the company. Spencer Price: Halla is the only software company to dynamically profile human tastes so we can help people make better choices. Spencer Price: That's a fair question. Spencer Price: It's a bit of a circuitous route. What is Halla?

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

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Agree to Bundling Without a Minimum Price. 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. Forgo Change of Control or Agree to a ROFO or ROFR.

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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

Both Sides of the Table

Was there consumer demand? If electricity could be transferred like WiFi but as safe as a soundwave we use on pregnant women’s bellies and at a price-point that was attractive this is a multi-billion market. We hired IP specialists to review prior art. We grilled their IP attorneys. No brainer.

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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

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When they look at buying your company they often think in terms of “how long will it take until I earn back the profits to pay for my acquisition price?” If you spent the 3 years perfecting some hugely differentiated technology IP that may also be different. Revenue is Not Revenue is Not Revenue.

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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

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You own the IP you create. You end up needing to add staff and take on more risk without knowing what your future demand will be. My advice wasn’t to shut down all product / IP initiatives but rather to be clear on their purpose and how to monetize them. In a down market IP can become a huge differentiator.

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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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