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Eight Repeat Entrepreneurs To Watch In SoCal

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Getting lots of notice--and controversy--at Demand Media for its use of writers to create content specifically to attract web traffic. com, and was CEO of Vivendi Universal Net USA. His new site, Mahalo, is focused on people-based, online search, with backing from Seuqoia Capital and Elon Musk, among others.

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Entrepreneurs Should Go For The Quick Buck – Then Stop - Initial Business Models Can Be Enticing But Limiting In The Long Run

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They often identify expeditious ways to make money in the early days of their adVentures, which allow them to reduce the amount of capital they must raise from outside investors. They knew that price restructuring would significantly impair their gross revenues as well as their net income, which would dramatically impact their stock price.

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Interview with Jed Simon, FastPay

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On one hand, you've got publishers, on the other, advertisers. Even with quality publishers and advertisers, there's still a lag in payment timing between the advertisers and publishers of anywhere from 90 to 120 days. Jed Simon: The idea came from recognizing a pain point in the ad tech ecosystem.

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Interview with Al Eisaian, IconApps

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We've had close to 2 million tasks people have put into there in the last four months, and all this without any PR or advertising, completely organic. The net-net, is they want to simplify their lives, and we've given them an application that allows them to simplify their life, save money, and share. READ MORE>>.

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REACH | Disruptive Technologies Impacting the Future of Gaming [Live]

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AGN was sold to Net-TV pioneer Pseudo Programs and Rubin served as VP of Games and Sports programming. Wilson is the President/COO of Paltalk, a profitable leading live social interest/topic & content based video and chat community, with millions of active users a month, cross platforms.

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Interview with Kelly Tompkins, AdventureLink

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Kelly Tompkins: Yes, in 1998, there was Away.com, iExplore, and there was significant venture capital thrown at that segment. Their idea was to catch enough consumers to scale, but they didn't understand the cost of acquisition, of finding customers, marketing, and advertising. We learned a lot for each of those projects.

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Interview with Mark Suster, GRP Partners

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We're also looking at technology in the retail sector, or which touch the retail supply chain--things like out of home advertising, software to optimize the retail supply chain, and other related areas because we know the retail sector so well. Obviously, this being LA, we're also very interested in digital content and distribution.