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Interview with Minnie Ingersoll, TenOneTen Ventures

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We write checks from $500K to a million dollars, and we like to fund engineers turned entrepreneurs. Sometimes what I say, is if brand is your moat, and you're a direct-to-consumer company, versus where you really have some technology, and you have some IP, that's the side of the spectrum we play on.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

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In Los Angeles we don’t have “patron technology companies&# that are big enough to matter – we’re still hoping to see them emerge. In LA we have SoCalTech , for which I am grateful. I don’t write about LA but I write from LA. They’re doing stuff – just not enough.

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Interview with Chris Lyman and Corey Brundage, SendLove.to

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The last time we spent much time chatting with Chris Lyman and Corey Brundage , they were at Los Angeles telephony software firm Fonality , busy getting their employees set up in a full blown, mixed-martial arts (MMA) "fight club". When you stick that plugin on a blog you are writing, it scans the article for names.

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