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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

Both Sides of the Table

Founded in January 2010 by Stephen Hood (ex-Delicious head of product), Dave Baggeroer (Stanford’s Institute of Design), and Josh Whiting (ex-senior engineer at Delicious and Craigslist). Founded in 2009 in Los Angeles by Michelle Crames. Brought in new CEO, Russ Reeder in 2008. Mobile gifting service. Company still in beta.

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Top Ten infoChachkie Entries Of 2011

InfoChachkie

I began publishing my blog in 2008. was published in 2009 and Time Wounds All Heels was written in 2008. Worst T-shirt Designs Ever. For the first couple years, I wrote under the pseudonym Uncle Saul. I was hesitant to use my own name, as I did not want my blog to be perceived as a self-promotional vanity project.

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Interview with Michael Schneider, Mobile Roadie

socalTECH

Michael Schneider: I was running a design agency, Fluid Design, in Santa Monica, which I started in high school. In 2008, I was getting lots of requests from people wanting iPhone applications, but no one wanted to spend the $50,000 to $100,000 needed to build something from scratch, or spend the six months it would take.

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Interview with Michael Witz, Mob Science

socalTECH

Michael Witz: We've been building smaller, lightweight games on the Facebook platform since early 2008. By December of 2009, with our little portfolio of simple games such as Snowball Fight, we were at 27 million monthly user son Facebook, and we were one of the top 10 developers on Facebook in terms of pure reach.

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Recycled Bride Wants You To Save On Your Big Day | Wed Without Tears

Tech Zulu Event

The firm says nearly 20% of all brides now shop for or sell a gently used wedding dress online, compared with just 6% in 2009 and they firmly believe Recycled Bride is helping make the sales even more possible. Recycled Bride was founded in 2009 in Santa Monica, CA. TechZulu caught up with Recycled Bride and here is what we found!

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Interview with Zac Brandenberg, Meteor Games

socalTECH

Zac Brandenberg: Meteor Games is a game design studio, focused on casual social games. We were well suited to design and develop those games, because we already had the infrastructure in place, and the founders were experts in game design. In late fall and winter of 2009, it had reached 8-10 million players already.

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Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple

SoCal CTO

I also read - The Difference Between Apple and Microsoft Marketing that tells us: Apples marketing is designed for Time Poor buyers, while Microsofts is designed for Time Rich buyers. I would agree that Apples product design would suggest that it aims at Time Poor buyers. Its certainly something to keep in mind.

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