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Putting Twitter’s IPO in Perspective

Agile VC

Again there’s three fundamental ways to make money in consumer-facing internet businesses: you can sell people stuff in a physical realm (e-commerce), you can indirectly monetize consumer attention (media or ad-based), or you can provide online software & services that consumers pay for (premium services).

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Both Sides of the Table

He then worked in consulting which gave him a broad base of business experience working with the newspaper, cable, and advertising industries. Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories.

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Evolution of a Founder: Lessons I have learned

om.co

I had been writing GigaOM (the blog) since December 2001, but in 2003, I started working on a piece for Business 2.0 The more I wrote about the oncoming mobile and broadband revolution, the more obvious it became that the print media was going to fight for attention with cheaper, faster publications. STARTING IT UP. I wanted to write.

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BizMe2 is Looking to Disrupt Conferences with Turnkey Solution (Interview)

VC Cafe

It is the B2B advertiser’s Mecca, but it is an undeserved market when it comes to user experience and consolidation of services. Yair Margolin: I was a member of the core team at Peerapp in 2003, a supplier of caching solutions for ISPs. Media centers were a hot topic, and I used the XBOX media center to develop the product.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Update: Part 2: Finding Your Co-Founders CrunchBase Information Seth Sternberg meebo Information provided by CrunchBase Tweet Next Post Previous Post Advertisement Now Commented Facebook Goodbye, MacBook Pro. also, just to clarify, the first idea we worked on that we called “meebo&# back in 2003 was my idea.

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Special: 72 Israeli Companies Exhibit at the 2010 Mobile World Congress

VC Cafe

Asocs – Founded in 2003, ASOCS develops and markets MultiComms™. Datanetis – People are ten times more likely to react to offers from a friend than to advertising. The service is a proven revenue generator for Media Companies (TV, newspapers, Radio stations), VAS providers and carriers. into an integral video clip.

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Special: The 56 Israeli Companies Exhibiting in Mobile World Congress 2011

VC Cafe

i-nigma was successfully deployed by hundreds of enterprises, among them operators, advertisers, integrators and solution providers. Founded in 2003, ASOCS develops and markets MultiComms.processors that provide seamless connectivity over diverse wireless networks. Established back in 2003, Comarcom Ltd. Aerotel Medical Systems.

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