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How NinjaThat Taps The Power Of Students For Business Tasks, with Atif Siddiqi

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Do you have a small task (graphic design, page layout, UI) you wish you had someone do, in an affordable way? Atif Siddiqi: We've created a student centric marketplace, that allows businesses, working professionals, and alumni to hire student workers on demand. Where'd you get the idea for the company? What is Ninjathat?

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Interview with Ilya Pozin, Cofounder of Pluto TV

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We caught up with Pluto TV's co-founder and Chief Growth Officer, Ilya Pozin , to hear about how the company started, and its path to acquisitionas well as to get some tips on startup success. I had always kind of been a computer nerd, and had been starting companies in high school. That's the idea that sparked Pluto TV.

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

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I’m super excited to announce that GRP Partners led the investment in Ethan Anderson’s new company MyTime (link has LA-based merchants but will give you a good feel for the product). I first met Ethan in 2005. BuildOnline (the company I founded) has just announcement plans to be more aggressive in growing in the US.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

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TWTFelipe and I ended up speaking for nearly 30 minutes and we talked mostly about why his company was based in Canada and not the US. In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. Felipe grew up in Brazil.

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Interview with Alex Kazerani and James Segil, OpenPath

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Alex is CEO and Segil is President of the new company, which is focused on access control and management. They sat down and told us a bit about whyafter a string of successful companieswhy they've gotten back into the startup game, and why they've decided to tackle the whole area of getting you into your office.

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Interview with Jerry Fitch, Teridian Semiconductor

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Jerry Fitch: The business management team at Golden Gate Capital bought Teridian in 2005. We've got four generation of parts in the market, with three in production, and the fourth sampling--with a fifth in design. For our readers who might not be familiar with Teridian, can you describe what your business is?

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Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles

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RSS ); Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles By: Laura Rich February 26, 2010 It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. And thats not even counting MySpace, which Rupert Murdoch famously paid $580 million for in 2005. startup scene so hot. What makes L.A.