These two industry veterans, with 36 years of experience combined, have co-founded a new independent startup company called Indy Audio Labs, LLC and plan on developing and marketing new products under the Aragon and Acurus names.

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Very much echoing Pam Pecs Cytron, the CEO of PendoSystems, who I wrote about earlier, the key challenge the INTIX team encountered was that larger banks would say they were interested in the solution, but were reluctant to do business with a relatively new, unknown startup company.

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Any startup company is always presented with new challenges that we had to overcome.

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Jason Bateman, Will Arnett and Ben Silverman will receive the Startup of the Year award for their new company, Dumbdumb.

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Consider, for example, an American startup-up company that has developed sophisticated new data-mining technologies for social networking applications.

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Earlier this week, news broke that Seattle-based QuestionPro, a leading web-survey and market research company, has acquired Pollbob, a New Orleans-based startup at the forefront of the mobile social polling space.

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The company set out to raise enough money to meet the startup costs of manufacturing this new project.

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Anything labeled a " must-have" from a security company that we've never heard of is flips on our huckster radars, and a new startup called Atomynet purports to sell its new "Mighty Key" portable security solution.

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Or when The New York Times published a lengthy business feature on another Andreessen Horowitz-funded startup Factual, an admittedly ambitious company with a purpose and a neat back story.

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