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Ryan Blair, HashtagOne: From Gang Member, To Entrepreneur, To Anti-VC

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My CIO had been ex-CIO at Herbalife, and was an EVP of Software for Disney. We hired the ex-CTO of Sears, and other senior executives out of Disney in software. It was a great software team, and although we were really a tech company, we looked like healthy lifestyle company.

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Interview with Dave Fink and Jonathan Neddenriep, Postie

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We spoke with Dave Fink , CEO and co-founder of Posite, and Jonathan Neddenriep , co-founder and CTO of the company, to learn more. Dave Fink: I was one of the original partners at Sciences, and Jonathan was CTO of the e-commerce staff. Photo: Dave Fink on left, Jonathan Neddenriep on right. What is Postie? What is a print cloud?

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Interview with Gabe Grifoni, Rufus Labs

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Rufus Labs is one of a number of hardware startups which have started to proliferate in the community, due to low cost hardware, 3D printing, and crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo. Plus, they don't collect data, and use really old, limited software. What's your product, and what is it used for? That's a huge step.

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Interview with Ramit Varma, Revolution Prep

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The company provides SAT, ACT, and other similar test preparation courses and related software. I had worked as a tutor for Princeton Review, and Jake for Kaplan. We thought, we could put out a better product than Kaplan or Princeton Review, which would be more compelling, and also would tie in a strong social mission.

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Why The Growth Of The Internet Is Driving EdgeCast's Revenues

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The company--which is in the business of operating a content delivery network (CDN) to accelerate the delivery of web graphics, multimedia, applications, and more to end users-- recently disclosed it more than doubled its revenues in 2012, and has grown to over 230 employees--all due to a huge amount of demand for CDN services by its customers.

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Interview Eric Sikola, ExpenseBay

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Eric Sikola is CEO of ExpenseBay (www.expensebay.com), a Los Angeles-based, online, software-as-a-service startup which has created an online application which uses Web 2.0 finance software such as Wesabe and Mint, and applied it to the corporate expense area. How did decide to start a company on focused expense software?

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Interview Therese Tucker, BlackLine Systems

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It's somewhat unusual in this economy to find companies who are seeing strong growth, so we were intrigued recently in running into BlackLine Systems (www.blackline.com), a firm which develops software for helping in the financial reporting process. First, for our readers who aren't familiar with your software, can you explain what it does?

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