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TZ Presents 2013 Startup Forecast

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Before Harrison Metal, Erik was most recently vice president of product management and strategy at TripAdvisor, the largest travel community site on the Web. Marks was the founder and CEO of Acclaim Games (now owned by Disney), and the co-Founder of Activision and Chairman of Activision Studios (1991-1997).

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Spotlight: LA Tech Judges and SuperDemo Bill Gross of Idealab!

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Howard Marks , Co-Founder at Activision / StartEngine. A 20-year industry veteran, having co-founded juggernaut Activision as well as Acclaim Games. CallFire provides Voice and SMS Solutions to over 40,000 customers including political groups, non-profits, insurance agents, small business owners, and marketers.

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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Winter Presenting Companies at Caltech

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Mobile Web America, Inc. CallFire provides Voice and SMS Solutions to over 40,000 customers including political groups, non-profits, insurance agents, small business owners, and marketers. Custom ad deals and partnerships. It’s a clutter-free, haggle-free, hassle-free solution to self storage. Sponsored giveaways and contests.

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Interview with Greg Borrud, Seismic Games

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All three of us have been working together for quite awhile, since Activision, fifteen or sixteen years ago. Farmvile, Cityville, and other world building games are great, but I think people will want more, such as games focused on building their own characters, social relationships around those characters, and customization.

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Spotlight: LA Tech | One Year, Recap, and Thank You!

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GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. Howard Marks is a 30-year industry entrepreneur, having co-founded juggernaut Activision as well as Acclaim Games. Gold Sponsor. .

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

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If you hit a groove on funding and customer growth it does become a challenge to ramp quickly. In Los Angeles you have large industries in garment industry, defense, games (both physical like Mattel and virtual like Activision) and music. That sets us up nicely for the next phase of the web. Hit some bumps in the road?

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 2. .“… “Then we engage with the product and the entrepreneur and because we know these areas very well we don’t have to spend a lot of time understanding the market or understanding the customer.”. was starting.