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Interview with Jonathan Lehmann and James Chung, KarmaGoat

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Jonathan Lehmann: I was awarded the Larry Wolfen Entrepreneurial Spirit Award at UCLA, after getting amazing coaching from Matt Ridenour in our business plan development class. I developed the idea over the summer, articulated the vision, drew out the site, and then teamed up with other students at UCLA and started developing KarmaGoat.

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Reflections On 2019: Peter Cowen, Sutton Capital Partners

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Leaseville, the pioneer in the virtual lease-to-own (LTO) space demonstrated strong metrics on its new product this year and is now poised to scale significantly. Are there any technology innovations, gadgets/devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2019? What is the biggest lesson you learned this year? READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Wes Nichols, MarketShare

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For our Friday interview, we thought we'd catch up with Los Angeles-based MarketShare , the Elevation Partners-backed software provider, to hear where the firm is nowadays. Wes Nichols: I'd say that for 2011, what we are going to see is a dramatic rollout of our software. We spoke with Wes Nichols , the firm's co-founder and CEO.

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Challenge of Predicting Winners

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At the same time, when I saw an old colleague at an event at UCLA a few weeks back, we both were discussing how hard we felt it was to predict success in this kind of venture. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be.

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Innovation and Geography

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Some events, like a recent Tech Coast Angel event at UCLA are really worth it. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be. Evening events in Orange County require about 2 hours of round trip drive time.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

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From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. I'm working quite a bit with startups who are leveraging social media, but I'm finding it hard to predict success and metrics.

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