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Social Networking Addiction Bears Fruit

Eric Greenspan

Mike will be using a desk at Make It Work to incubate his new company. We created Superfriends, a group of local entrepreneurs that will gather to share ideas and help each other grow personally and professionally. I was provided with introductions to execs at Myspace, Facebook, Yahoo!, We will collaborate on ideas and projects.

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Social Networking Addiction Bears Fruit FAST

Eric Greenspan

Mike will be using a desk at Make It Work to incubate his new company. We will collaborate on ideas and projects and we created the Superfriends together, a group of local entrepreneurs that will gather to share ideas and help each other grow personally and professionally. The first to respond was @robinzucker of Yahoo!

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Burn This Number After Calling: Greg Cohn on Burner

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We caught up with serial entrepreneur Greg Cohn , who brought us up to speed on what Burner is about, and the story behind the app. The example is a venture capitalist who might want to take calls from entrepreneurs, or a celebrity or someone who might be an expert in a field, like law or accounting. Were you here in LA with Yahoo?

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First Round Capital Launches Dorm Room Fund | $500,000 Pilot Investment Fund For Students

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Josh Kopelman, managing partner at Philadelphia based First Round Capital has launched Dorm Room Fund, in a move to reach out to college dorm entrepreneurs, like he was in 1992 while at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He says on his blog , “I was a dorm room entrepreneur. The initial batch of eight students is on.

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

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He didn’t tell it in the video but, ever the entrepreneur, Scott started a business to take couples up on a “mile high club&# flight on airplanes as a way of getting all of his miles logged to get his next class of airplane license that required a certain number of hours logged. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

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That's funding our new product, FanMix, which is a a social media tool. People we met there were Greg Cohn, who was recently head of yahoo games. It's a casual setupit's not an incubator, it's not an accelerator, and we're not charging anyone for space. We scaled that to almost $1.4 We have some great mentors now.

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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. OrganicStartup incubates and accelerates innovative ventures by providing them with strategic early-stage investment, advisory, and operational assistance.