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How to Fund Your Business When Venture Capital Has Said No

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Thursday, January 22, 2009 -- How to Fund Your Business When Venture Capital Has Said No. Capital - CASH -- is a key ingredient for any business. Venture funding isn't available to everyone, and-newsflash-isn't right for every company. Especially for entrepreneurial and fast-growing technology companies.

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Monetizing Innovation

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How 'IP Capitalists' are beating Venture Capitalists in Innovative Companies? See how to fund a company with IP Funding, as an alternative to VC funding. Thursday, December 1, 2011 -- Monetizing Innovation. Google bought Motorola Mobility for $12B to get access to their 17,000 patents. Nortel sold its 6000 patents for $4.5B

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Venture Conference Highlights SoCal Startups

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The conference, held at the Westin South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, featured pitches by eight different companies vying for the attention--and pocketbooks--of venture capitalists. socalTECH was a media sponsor of the conference).