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Remember The Phone Company? It’s Back And It’s Called Facebook

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For instance, consumers can effortlessly click on a desktop Facebook ad, surf a site to learn more and then execute a purchase or fill out a lead form, via their large screen, mouse and full-sized keyboard. BIA/Kelsey reports that from 2011 to 2013 there was a 133% increase in the number of mobile phone calls to businesses.

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Interview with Steve Jillings, TeleSign

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2011 was an incredibly huge year for us, and 2012 will be the same way. What we do, is we help companies identify who is accessing their sites, and registering for their services. In 2011, we had two of our patents approved. For those folks, can you describe what TeleSign does?

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Collect, Organize, and Share on LoveIt | Interview with Ron LaPierre Co-Founder & CEO

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LoveIt is a site for individuals and groups to discover, collect, organize and share images they love in public or private collections. We did some informal research toward the end of 2011 when the “pinning” phenomenon emerged because we found it very interesting. What is LoveIt and why the name? What inspired you to launch LoveIt?

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Interview with Woolas Hsieh and Dina Lozofsky, Solarmer Energy

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We're doing our development in El Monte, and we think we'll be operational by the beginning of next year, and full scale by the end of 2010, with product launch in 2011. About a year later, we recognized that it was very important to also have the patent, and Dina joined us. We hopefully will have our first production year in 2011.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

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Charlie Capen is co-founder of HowToBeADad.com , an entertainment site and dad blog for “parents, soon-to-be parents and people who have no desire to procreate, whatsoever.” The site features running commentary and visual diagrams on the idiosyncrasies of fatherhood, parenting missteps and his own adjustment to having children.

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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map

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Miller was even honored as an Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” for 2011. Adam Goldenberg’s JustFab is one of the new heavy-hitting membership fashion sites. In 2011, Business Insider ranked Legal Zoom No. It also won a number of key patents bit.ly/RiJCFI magazine and the LA Business Journal.