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Interview with Scott Saunders, Payoff.com

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Scott Saunders: I spent nearly my entire career on the investment side, and in 2005 switched over to the entrepreneurial side of the world. When I shoed up with a few pages of conceptual, early stage ideas around consumer finance, it was immediately captivating, and it really lined up with what he wanted to do.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

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In terms of topics we spoke about: - Do VC’s send your presentations around to other people if they don’t fund you? Nevertheless, if you share too much in your funding process or meet too many VCs expect a certain amount of your ideas to spread around the startup community. short answer: very, very rarely. But it does happen.

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

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https://medium.com/media/cc969482e7abf6b75d3c0958c8ee409d/href I moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and as a VC who had built his career as a programmer, database designer, program manager, CEO then VP Products at Salesforce, I wanted to build a portfolio of software investments. Back then there were “email forwards.”

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Interview with Adam Lieber, Webtide

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One of the big, open source successes in both Southern California and the software world was Gluecode Software , which was based in Los Angeles and acquired by IBM in 2005. Where's the open source market nowadays--a few years ago, people were playing around with business models, how is yours working? We're also growing and hiring.

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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map

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If that’s not enough, ShoeDazzle runs charity shoe programs, making the company good for your closet and the country. Coffin sold LowerMyBills.com in 2005 for 300 million and took that money into the Los Angeles startup sector. Elbaz’ AdSense accounted for 28 percent of Google’s total revenue, or more than $2 billion.