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Face.com Gets $4.3 Million from Russian Yandex and Rhodium

VC Cafe

Face.com was founded in 2007 by Gil Hirsch (CEO), Yaniv Taigman (CTO), Moti Sneiberg and Eden Shochat (Eden is also one of Face.com’s investors and today serves as a partner in Gensis). The tagging widget uses faces.detect to automatically place tags on people's faces, and allows users to add names.

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Why Search Is Hard

Diego Basch

Back in 2007 Google called this Universal Search , but the concept had been around for years. Today they will do math for you, find real-time flight information, tell you about the local weather, show you when the next bus will come by your stop. If you type an artist or a song title, you’ll probably see a video or two.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

I started building an invoicing application in 2007 to help startups and freelancers to organize their billing, clients and most important automate reminders and recurring invoices. in the domain finder. #17- After having a massive poll and domain check. Photo Credit: Sagar Kogekar. I still don’t believe it was available back then.

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How to Select a Company or Product Name

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The Rapist Finder. Therapist Finder. Copyright 2007-2009 Digital River All Rights Reserved. The.anything domains can cause confusion, stick. with the standard domains for your primary website. Be Careful. Be careful how the word is read! Multi word domains. can be interpreted a number of different ways. molestationnursery.com.

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A Guide to Funding a Business in the U.K.

Up and Running

It’s no secret that access to mainstream credit and lending facilities has dried up significantly since the onset of the financial crisis in 2007. One other website that can help business bosses find answers to their financing queries is the government’s business finance support finder. The funding landscape. Economic advantage.

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Why Co-Founders Are a Startup's Biggest Liability | The Startup Lawyer

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View Comments lk says: October 23, 2007 at 9:56 pm the co-founders of textworks just experienced getting shafted by a co-founder! Ryan says: October 24, 2007 at 7:00 am I’m sorry to hear about that. He obviously never launched a startup and got shafted by a co-founder. would you like to link to one another?

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Transcript of Using Technology to Build Connections in the Real World

Duct Tape Marketing

I mean, it’s got to be 2006, 2007 when there was the Ad Age 150. I saw what Sally Hogshead did with Fascinate and what Gallup did, and Tom Rath with Strength Finder. Dan Schawbel: So happy to be here. I was thinking this morning. I’m like, “I’m going to talk to John.” Remember that? Tell us about that.