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DECEMBER 23, 2010

For today's contribution, we spoke with Jim Armstrong , a venture capitalist at Clearstone Venture Partners. Second is gaming meets life -- where gaming isn't just for entertainment anymore, but rather you interact with other behaviors through games. Yesterday, we spoke with Mark Suster of GRP Partners.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Sensor is led by longtime tech veteran Phil Ressler, who previously has served at Bottlenose, Lumenz Networks, MyGreenlight, Big Stage Entertainment, Clearstone Venture Partners, and many other companies. The funding was led by DRW Venture Capital, and also included Mobile Financial Partners.

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JANUARY 13, 2012

Torres joins from Reed Business Information, and had been previously at Ticketmaster and Sony Pictures Entertainment. The firm is venture backed by Clearstone Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, IDG Ventures Asia, Comcast Ventures and News Corporation.

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MARCH 24, 2009

Marina Del Rey-based ActionAllStars.com , which develops virtual worlds for kids from six to 14 years old, said this morning that it has linked up with Candystand.com , an online gaming and entertainment site. According to the firms, ActionAllStars.com's sports entertainment will be available directly from Candystand.com's web site.

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DECEMBER 3, 2008

We spoke with Phil Ressler--a former venture capitalist from Clearstone Ventures--who is now CEO of BigStage. I had gone into Clearstone at their invitiation, and had a really exciting time, and the experiment lasted longer than expected. Venture capital seemed the obvious way to do that. It took six weeks, and we made a deal.

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JULY 8, 2010

Christensen was most recently at Sony Entertainment Online, and has served at Affinity Media. Titan is backed by $1M in funding from William Quigley and Jim Armstrong of Clearstone Ventures; Brock Pierce; MP3.com's Christensen to lead business development, and named Michael Steuer as Vice President of product Development.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Pasadena-based Big Stage Entertainment , the venture-backed startup which is developing photo-realistic avatar technology, has exited its beta and officially launched its site. READ MORE>>

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