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

VC Cafe

A bout 50,000 visitors from 200 countries are expected to attend the 2010 GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, starting tomorrow February 15th. Green: low-energy consuming phones and products for using the mobile as an energy monitoring device in the house. Cost control & mobile least cost routing implementation.

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2011 Consumer Internet Predictions

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Real time web usage outpaces business models. Similarly, the check-in services are attracting experimental budgets from national retailers as well as forward thinking small businesses who are eager to attract new customers into their stores, and reward regular customers. Smartphones transformed the mobile internet.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 36: Jim Semick and Peter Arvai

Steve Blank

a company that aggregates data on treatment outcomes for hospital patients. Soon after, he developed the world’s first mobile newsreader so people could follow TED Talks from their mobile devices. . Jim lectures at University of California Santa Barbara and elsewhere on the process of discovering successful business models.

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

VC Cafe

The Mobile World Congress , possibly the largest International technology conference and definitely the most important mobile conference of the year is taking place in Barcelona this February 14-17. Mobile Apps and App stores – a new ecosystem was created and it’s here to stay (Check out LogiaGroup, Waze and Cellint).

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New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’ | Xconomy

www.xconomy.com

View More in Mobile ›. Here’s some big news for San Diego’s innovation economy: There’s a new venture capital firm in town—and its investment methodology represents a fundamentally different approach to the conventional business model for venture investing. View More in Health IT ›. Life Sciences ›. View More in Life Sciences ›.

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ProfessorVC: Are DEMO's days numbered?

Professor VC

To be fair, the Day 1 categories were primarily infrastructure companies (Enterprise, Cloud and Mobile). A check-in aggregation platform. ► 2008. (14). I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases.

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ProfessorVC: Crowdfunding - Good Idea or Really, Really Stupid.

Professor VC

My skeptical side assumes that the intermediaries are the only ones that will make money in aggregate on these deals. ► 2008. (14). I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. Steve Bennet. 7.5 - 10.5% 3 days ago.

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