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AirPush's Asher Delug: Bootstrapping Your Way To $100M

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Los Angeles-based mobile advertising company Airpush has quietly grown to around $100M in annual revenues, according to a recent ranking from Forbes--a big surprise, as the company was completely bootstrapped by founder Asher Delug , who eschewed the usual use of venture capital and private equity to build a company to those revenue levels.

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6 Key Rules To Stay Competitive In The Digital World

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Apple pulled ahead of other mobile phones in its early days largely because it cultivated an ecosystem of software developers who created iPhone apps to meet every consumer niche and need. Look for investors and organizations who practice 10x or 100x thinking, rather than earnings-per-share (EPS) every quarter.

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

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Our mission is to organize all of the world''s real time location information. If you''re familiar with Shszam, the mobile app which scans and tells you who an artist is, we''ve created something like Shazam for the real world. I spent five years researching interesting ways to organize data on time and location.

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Interview with Steve Jillings, TeleSign

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We can tell that they're using a voice-over-IP phone number or prepaid mobile phone, and we might not allow them to register because their experience is that a majority of their fraudulent activity comes from those type of phone numbers. In 2011, we had two of our patents approved. That ended up as a $200 million sale to Microsoft.

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CapLinked Teams with Quipa to Protect Business Transactions with Military-Grade Security

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According to Shannon Roy, VP Enterprise Services of Quipa US, it will allow them to offer a new security solution to organizations that need agility when working collaboratively with outside parties on business transactions. The partnership doesn’t just benefit CapLinked alone. More Agile & Secure Than Trad VPN technologies.

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MuckerLab Unveils Second Graduating Class to Investors

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s first YouTube employee Blayze is trusted by many of the top media companies in the world to activate, manage, and monetize their audience and data by developing organic, sustainable viewership. GetMeRated , a mobile app where teens and twentysomethings find new friends through photos and chat. Founded by L.A.’s

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CallFire Bootstraps 50,000 Signups and Hires Former NetZero CEO

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CallFire powers voice and text messaging applications that enable businesses, government agencies and grassroots organizations to instantly and affordably communicate with key audiences. CallFire serves clients in a diverse array of industries, from automotive, education and entertainment, to finance, healthcare, marketing and real estate.