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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map

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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map. ” Residents of Northern California (everyone north of Bakersfield) don’t understand how we do it, constantly touting Palo Alto’s tech scene. Coffin sold LowerMyBills.com in 2005 for 300 million and took that money into the Los Angeles startup sector.

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How Kixer Is Connecting Mobile Web Users To Apps

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What we saw back in 2005, was that everyone was making a ton of money on desktop ads, because that''s where the users were. However, I really like algorithmic content recommendation, using machine learning and other crazy geek tech stuff to help provide information to consumers. I love Scopely, and I''m a big fan of that business.

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Interview with Brett Crosby and Brew Johnson, PeerStreet

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The easiest way to look at it, from the tech perspective, is that we are very similar to LendingClub. Brett and I sat down, and said, how can we take a tech approach and create a positive impact on the existing real estate industry, particularly in the mortgage and real estate finance industry. So, what is PeerStreet?

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Changing The Business Of Media Through Online Video, With Cenk Uygur

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Our other shows are about sports, entertainment, movie reviews, university news--all of the things that fit under the umbrella of news. I started Young Turks back in 2002, and then, in 2006 and really towards the end of 2005, started daily web streaming for the show. We have fourteen owned and operated and twenty-two partner channels.

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How Addroid Is Hoping To Solve The Ad Industry's Flash Problem, with Matt Cooper

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There's been a huge debate over the future of Adobe's Flash raging over the last month, as both Google and Mozilla disabled Flash due to security holes and other issues. All of digital advertising today uses Flash as a foundation technology. I started a company, Neoganda, in the digital advertising area in 2005. READ MORE>>.

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StoryBots And The Future of Learning,With Gregg Spiridellis, JibJab

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It's a way for us to take advantage of technology and the Internet, not just for distributing our content to our audience, but also for workflow and production systems, to enable us to engage the best talent all over the world. Gregg Spiridellis: We were producing viral video hits in 2005.

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Interview with Peter Lee, Baroda Ventures

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He was basically active investing until 2004 and 2005, and then started getting much more involved in the non-profit space. I wouldn't say we're extremely close to anything right now, but we've seen I'd say at least three different companies were we went further than an initial meeting--not a term sheet, but deeper diligence.