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Skate Where the Puck is Going

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Similar current buzz-meter terms include: geo-location, geo-fencing, local deals, local offers, flash sales, group sales, privates sales and augmented reality. I recently gave talks at Caltech & Stanford. And of course – badges. Fawking badges. OK, I get it. Badges were an innovation. And they seem to work.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

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in sales last year, what he learned from his experience at TechStars, and where he's going with Fanmix. million in sales last year, with great margins, and it's profitable, with a team of ten people. People we met there were Greg Cohn, who was recently head of yahoo games. We have a licensing business with that.

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

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We have universities like CalTech, UCLA, USC and many more. You don’t have the founders of eBay, LinkedIn, Salesforce.com and Yahoo. You can hire a talented head of marketing, business development, technology and sales. You need to for conferences, business development and often for sales. You don’t.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Summer Judges Includes BetterWorks, CallFire, Idealab, and Tech Coast Angeles

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He also designed the Farmville iPhone application (top iPhone app), and worked on corporate development deals including Microsoft, Yahoo, Zynga Japan, and Zynga corporate strategy. Prior to Idealab, Alex led sales and marketing efforts for venture-backed startups focused on enterprise software and services. wonder what that might be?

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

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We have world-class universities like Caltech, UCLA, USC and more. Look beyond California and you have group purchasing (GroupOn in Chicago, LivingSocial in Washington DC), private sales (Gilt Groupe in NY, HauteLook in LA), artisan marketplaces (Etsy in NY), eCommerce (Amazon in Seattle) and on and on. million in SF Bay Area ).