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RingRevenue Ropes In Rex Direct

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Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue , the pay-per-call services firm headed by Jason Spievak, has signed on a new customer today, Rex Direct Net. According to Rex Direct Net, it will offer pay-per-call services powered by RingRevenue's products. Financial details of the win were not nanounced.

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Sony Online Entertainment Launches User-Generated Content Program

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The user-generated game objects will be offered up to other players, and 40 percent of the net amount received from sale of those items will go back to the player. Sony said it will provide sample geometry to players who can then create items using third party art tools.

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Why Your Startup is More Likely to Succeed if You’re Authentic and Passionate

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We’ve gotten to the point where after the film The Social Network and now with our own ironic HBO drama “Silicon Valley,” (makes it sound like writing a algorithm can easily net you $10 million without trying) one might think starting a company is a bit like the gold rush where riches flow to you with ease.

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How Do YOU Think the Internet Will Evolve? A Sampling of Your Tweets

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Join Xconomy and World Frontiers Forum on July 16 for Net@50 , an event exploring the internet’s past and future. ] Join Xconomy and World Frontiers Forum on July 16 for Net@50 , an event exploring the internet’s past and future. ] 1969), I’m working on a piece looking to the Net’s.

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7 New Venture Strategies Improve The Odds Of Survival

Startup Professionals Musings

Every investor has his own list, usually based on his own very small sample, or simply his gut feeling. Here is my own net of those seven habits: Founder is ready, willing, and able to learn. I’m always looking for evidence of early startup characteristics that might be predictors of long-term success.

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5 “What-Ifs” To Include In A Startup Financial Model

Startup Professionals Musings

The way to start is with a sample financial model, available from many sources on the Internet, such as over 200 downloadable free from the Corporate Finance Institute website. The manual calculations to translate market assumptions into costs, volumes, expenses and net return are massive.

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Factual Data On Popular New Venture Success Timelines

Startup Professionals Musings

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 I was reading an old article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”.

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