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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Majid Abai, CEO of Pringo Majid Abai is the Chief Executive of Pringo, Inc. an enterprise social networking platform provider located in Los Angeles, CA. In 2005, Majid coauthored "Data Strategy" a book designed to help streamline information management within organizations. He has 20 years’ experience as CTO.

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Interview with Taher Scherzay, FavRav

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Taher Scherzay: FavRav is basically a platform that allows small businesses to get a footprint with customers, using the referral network of social media. One of the previous companies I worked on we sold to Microsoft in 2005, and I then spent some time at Microsoft to get that company integrated. What's the idea behind FavRav?

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

Both Sides of the Table

I first met Ethan in 2005. Ethan recruited a great team of people to help build this proposition including Lisa Robinson running marketing and Rahul Thathoo as CTO who have been working tirelessly for the past year. MyTime aims to be the first industry-wide platform to help create consistency across the SKUs in services businesses.

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Interview with Jamie Siminoff, Unsubscribe.com

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So, we put something together, and put in some money, and literally the next day I was out to breakfast with Josh Roth, the former CTO of Rent.com and NTI Group, and Josh was also looking for something to do. Not everyone had a spam filter, and lots of companies didn't have a spam filter in place until 2003, 2004, or 2005.

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Flipagram: Using Photos And Music To Create A Viral Machine, with Farhad Mohit

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Farhad Mohit: As you know, Bizrate spawned Shopzilla, which took us from 2000 to 2005. Fortunately, Bryan, our CTO at the time, said his wife worked with two guys who had started this thing called Flipagram in 2012. Farhad, tell us a bit about the story behind Flipagram -- how did you get from Bizrate to Flipagram?

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Flipagram: Using Photos And Music's To Create A Viral Machine, with Farhad Mohit

socalTECH

Farhad Mohit: As you know, Bizrate spawned Shopzilla, which took us from 2000 to 2005. Fortunately, Bryan, our CTO at the time, said his wife worked with two guys who had started this thing called Flipagram in 2012. Farhad, tell us a bit about the story behind Flipagram -- how did you get from Bizrate to Flipagram?

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

SoCal Delicious

Joey Flores is co-founder and CEO of Earbits , an online radio platform that enables bands, labels and concert promoters to acquire fans, market new releases and promote live events. He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005. Joey Flores – Co-Founder and CEO of Earbits.