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ELC Technologies Acquired By Pourzanjani, Rahmat

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ELC is known for its cloud computing applications development, and Ruby On Rails development. Rahmat was CEO of Tom's Hardware, which he sold to BestofMedia in 2007. Pourzanjani founded PriceGrabber and sold it to Experian in 2005 for $485M, and is among one of the active angel investors in Los Angeles.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. Founded in 2007. Note that I’m not defining who numbers 1,2 are.

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Interview with Bryan Biniak, Connected Travel

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We had an advanced application development and innovation team. We had a new tablet we had developed back in 2007, and we were asked to come up with concepts to drive cellular usage. How did you end up working in the whole area of automotive AI?

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Interview with Ian Swanson, Sometrics

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The majority of them are social application developers, who have social applications on Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, Bebo, and Hi5, either using the Facebook API or OpenSocial. It seems like this market initially had a lot of individual developers just playing around with the APIs. So who is using your software?

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Interview with Sometrics, Ian Swanson

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The majority of them are social application developers, who have social applications on Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, Bebo, and Hi5, either using the Facebook API or OpenSocial. It seems like this market initially had a lot of individual developers just playing around with the APIs. So who is using your software?

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 4.0 – Wireless is the next big thing – hurry!

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– Wireless and Voice Application Development Software Company Age: 24 - 25 Time Period: 2000 - 2001 My Role: CEO and Founder High Point: Partnering with Intel and having Craig Barrett (Intel CEO) present Zondigo’s technology as “the future&# Wireless was going to be the "next big thing." . ► March (1) Office 2.0:

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