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Interview with Scott Lahman, GOGII

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Around 2005, those of us at JAMDAT thought Apple would disrupt the application space, so we approached Apple. By 2007, when we started GOGII, we really wanted to break out of the mobile ecosystem, and we were one of the first five companies funded by the Kleiner Perkins iFund. Back to textPlus, tell us where you are now with the app?

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Did Twitter Kill the Blogger Star?

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When Twitter first became popular with niche crowds in 2007 it seemed to take hold initially with bloggers. I have started blogging again having taken a hiatus since 2007 (actually, I was initially embargoed by Salesforce.com who didn’t want me blogging after they acquired my company). So what gives? Thank you, Twitter.

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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

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We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies. Read more: TechCrunch.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

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There are hundreds of entrepreneurs here in Los Angeles who are building awesome companies, writing awesome books, making awesome movies and are trying to solve important problems to help make this world a better place. He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005.

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

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When I started my second company in 2005 we decided to do everything differently. Factual was created in 2007 by Gil Elbaz, the founder of Applied Semantics. They have built tools to store the data but also to allow 3rd-party developers to rapidly consume or even write data to their tables. Other Layers.

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