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OCTOBER 9, 2019

Cleantech had an enormous rise and fall between 20006 and 2009. Lots has changed since 2009. In 2009, the finance world fell apart, and the venture world fell apart, and I returned to Pasadena. The same thing happened with algae biofuel companies in the 2006 and 2009 time frame. You then caught things like Web 2.0,

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DECEMBER 30, 2010

We asked the same five questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next two weeks. 1) Mobile web. Mobile app downloads went from 300mm in 2009 to 5 billion in 2010, Android ad impressions up over 2,000% as two examples.

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JUNE 1, 2011

One of the biggest forces that has emerged in the Internet in recent years has been crowdsourcing, the way the web has empowered users to drive the creation of content and information online. Clark Benson: I'm a serial entrepreneur, and have had one prior Internet exit. What's the story behind Ranker? Thanks, and good luck!

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JANUARY 25, 2010

Johnson , founder of Lunch.com, is an experience entrepreneur, who sold his last firm, VirtualTourist.com , to Expedia. Johnson's latest effort is Lunch.com (www.lunch.com), a web site which takes the concepts behind VirtualTourist.com beyond travel, and into lots of other subjects. on the web, how do you hope to stand out?

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MAY 7, 2012

and photographer is an online web presence and an order fulfillment partner. AS I was working my engineering job, I got obsessed with programming and building a business for the web. building Fine Art America in 2006 as a part time project, and launched the web site in 2007. building a web site for him.

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JUNE 18, 2009

We do share resources, in terms of if someone needs web help at Champion, we might borrow guys from the web, or if we need something for video, we'll go over to the video folks at Champion. Around 2000, I decided I had to stop focusing on TV and start getting onto the web. How are your two companies connected?

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JULY 21, 2011

Rob Reed: I was doing social media strategy consulting from 2007 until 2009, what I would really characterize as Social Media 1.0. That, combined with being early on the social web, was the nexus from where MomentFeed came about. How did the company come about? Could you give an example of how a customer might use your service?

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JULY 23, 2010

We started that in 2006, and sold it to Chicken Soup For The Soul in 2009. We also have some really interesting opportunities in the social web that the business has not previously pursued, which will actually let people in the social web know who we are. So let's talk about ThisNext. What's the focus of the firm nowadays?

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APRIL 16, 2010

I actually started my web site, CheapCheapCheap, while I was in college. After starting CheapCheapCheap to understand the consumer behavior and trends, I decided to get into the hyperlocal area in 2009. Tags: entrepreneur coupon retail hyperlocal local deals dealperk albert. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 1, 2010

I've been in the ad network business, helping Adconian, and know the web site publishing world. In early 2009, no one was paying attention to that, so we spent some money and devoted resources to build this. Tags: evan rifkin interview startup entrepreneur advertising tagworld. They have been phenomenal to work with.

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MARCH 19, 2019

Stacy Stubblefield: We do two factor authentication, which basically means we send text messages with the codes you get when you log into a web site or even when you're just registering for a website. Talk about Telesign and what you do? How did the company start? You would not have heard of it, because it was very small.

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JULY 20, 2011

However, it was an idea and concept which had been brewing for awhile, and besides, I had a personal interest in starting my own company and wanting to be an entrepreneur. I quickly realized that I did not want to be the one financing things, I wanted to be on the other side, as an entrepreneur. It was an eye opener.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Jeff Kupietzky: I think, like other folks, we had challenges at the end of 2008, and through 2009. I think where the turning point will be, when it's not the traditional domain investors, those individual entrepreneurs, but where more institutional money comes in. This year we think we'll return to the growth profile we had.

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OCTOBER 17, 2017

Businesses in 2009, 2010, and 2011, when they wanted to start a business, they didn't buy a Novell or use Exchange. There are none of those resellers for Amazon Web Services or Google. Anyway, the reason I am telling you this story, is we're seeing history repeat itself. Explain that? They used Gmail and Gsuite for email and calendar.

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