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MP3Tunes Files For Bankruptcy

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San Diego-based MP3tunes , the online music locker service started by Michael Robertson, has filed for bankruptcy, according to documents posted to the web by an ex-employee. The bankruptcy-due-to-entertainment-studio-lawsuit is not an unfamiliar one for Robertson, whose most famous startup, MP3.com,

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DataDirect Sets Sights On Cloud Storage

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DataDirect said its new Web Object Scaler (WOS) product is specifically focused on solving performance, scalability, and management problems associated with content creation, storage, and distribution. DataDirect's storage systems have previously been focused on the high performance computing (HPC) and media and entertainment industry.

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Steve Blank Discusses The Origin And Future Of The Lean Startup Movement

InfoChachkie

No matter how much you think you know about Steve’s lean startup philosophy, Eric Ries’ contributions to the movement, or the methodologies by which companies have put lean startup tenets into practice, I am confident you will be enlightened and entertained by Steve’s frank and insightful remarks. . free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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10 Apps & Tools for Maximizing Personal Efficiency

Frank Addante

I scan/fax documents to Evernote that I want to keep. On the personal side, I take photos of wine that I like and store them in a notebook called “Favorite Wines” and keep copies of all of my critical documents (driver’s license, passport, insurance documents, etc.) I take all of my meeting notes directly in Evernote.

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Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – Steve Gilison

SoCal CTO

Steve Gilison worked as a market researcher and product manager at a startup where my company, TechEmpower , did the software / web development. I’m currently working with several startups, helping them launch new web businesses. Likely any successful web entrepreneur has more ideas than time. What are you working on now?

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LA Tech Startup Innovators and Fun Facts

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Entertainment Tech: Atom Factory. Docstoc offers a repository of templates, research materials, processes, forms, legal documents, and much more, all designed to help small businesses overcome the many logistical roadblocks along the path to success. Fun Fact: Los Angeles heavy hitters J.J.

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Interview with David Aronchick, Hark

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We thought we'd create a platform that was as powerful and rich as Youtube is for video, or Flickr is for pictures, or Docstoc is for documents. About one quarter of all of the searches on Google are for entertainment related content, and studios are not playing into that at all. We're going out there, and harnessing that.

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