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Interview with Sean Broihier, Fine Art America

socalTECH

2009, at which point it was generating enough revenue for me to live on it full time. I realized that I should build a platform to put content. In addition, we outsource the actual production of prints to companies around the U.S. building Fine Art America in 2006 as a part time project, and launched the web site in 2007.

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How Sendgrid Makes Sure Those App Emails Go Through, With Jim Franklin

socalTECH

If you think of Pinterest, one of our customers, every time content is pinned or re-pinned, an email is generated to let users know that is happening. Sendgrid started in Summer of 2009 at TechStars in Boulder, and we've now grown dramatically to 100 employees and 60,000 customers.

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Q Manning of Rocksauce Studios | Founder Interview

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After directing a film in 2009, I wanted to get back into the design industry. These companies are content to simply give a client an app which gets the job done in a way which maximizes the development company’s profits, regardless of what that apps chances of success may be.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

SoCal Delicious

He was Director of Online Marketing for Mota Motors, a BusinessWeek Top 50 Most Promising Startup of 2009 and TechCrunch50 finalist. The apps can stream video, audio, news feeds, Twitter, Facebook, sell digital content, physical merchandise, and much more. Sizhao “Zao” Yang – COO and Co-founder at BetterWorks.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Welcome to FounderBlog!

Frank Addante

2009 (3) ► May (1) A Tour of the Rubicon Project Headquarters ► April (1) "Pay it Forward" Event for Students & Aspiring Ent. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Startups are like roller coasters, so expect the content of this blog to have similar characteristics.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Be Best at Something

Frank Addante

2009 (3) ► May (1) A Tour of the Rubicon Project Headquarters ► April (1) "Pay it Forward" Event for Students & Aspiring Ent. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? FounderBlog’s 1 Year Anniversary! A BIG THANK YOU. ► March (2) 4. Build a SWAT team 3.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

Product Friday: Monetizing Content is a Product Problem - This is going to be BIG. August 20, 2010 They say people won't pay for content. What Apple proved, and what I suspect is the issue with web content, is that monetization was a product problem. Dec 26, 2009). Why do startups? via Urban Dictionary ).

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