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How Catalog Is Helping SMBs Compete Against Big Brands

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Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based Catalog (www.catalog.cc), a startup developing artificial intelligence software to help independent visual artists scale their content production efforts, announced it raised $1.5M Patrick Ip: I was in San Francisco for the last five years at Google. Where's the service now? from Moonshots.

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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

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There’s a line of thinking in Silicon Valley that you should build product businesses rather than services businesses. It’s nearly impossible to get a services company financed by VCs. Why Shouldn’t Most Services Businesses Raise VC? Why Build a Services Business in the First Place?

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How to Make Sure Professional Services Don’t Take Over Your Software Company

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I recently wrote a blog post in which I pointed out that many investors & advisors discourage enterprise startups from having a professional services (PS) business and I think this is a big mistake. I think it’s important for enterprise startups to layer in professional services into your revenue stream. rollout support.

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

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Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. Who’s helping you with fundraising? Do you have legal (Founder Agreement, IP, etc.) For customer service? Fulfillment?

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TeleSign Enhances Fraud Risk Scoring Tools

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According to TeleSign, it added the integration of the BICS' Telecom Fraud Data Consortium platform into its data, which will help it better predict, detect, and block fraud. TeleSign's product provides a "fraud reputation score" based on any phone number, email, or IP address. READ MORE>>.

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Voxox Drops Calling Rates To The Phillippines In Wake of Disaster

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San Diego-based IP communications application provider VoxOx VoxOx is dropping the rates on its phone calls to the Phillippines, the company said, to help people look to keep in touch with families and friends in the country. READ MORE>>. voxox communications phone calling application phillippines yolanda haiyan'

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What Did I Learn From the First VC Check I Ever Wrote?

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At Upfront when we know we have a winning hand we prefer to put more capital to work, which both helps the entrepreneurs succeed and drives more aggregate financial returns for our LPs. Defensible IP becomes insanely valuable?—?particularly VCs have different views and strategies on this. Over the past 2.5