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JUNE 13, 2011

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. Exatly a year ago was the very beginning of KarmaGoat, where I was trying to come up with something that would work as a marketplace donating items.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2007

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. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? .

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FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Ive personally been involved in the start-up world in Los Angeles for about 15 years, and have had the opportunity to work on many early-stage companies (e.g., Some events, like a recent Tech Coast Angel event at UCLA are really worth it. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony.

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JANUARY 27, 2010

Wednesday January 27th Korn Hall UCLA. 12:00-1:00 PM: Eric Ries – The Lean Startup. 2:15-3:00: Lisa Stone CEO of BlogHer and Bambi Francisco CEO of Vator.tv (moderated by Cathy Brooks)– Opportunities and Challenges facing women Tech Entrepreneurs, 3:00-3:45: Dave McClure – Startup Metrics for Pirates.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2009

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. Earlier this year I founded a new startup called KlickFu. What’s keeping you up at night? What are you working on now?

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JANUARY 14, 2011

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 used to run a digital agency before starting this company. We spoke with Wes Nichols , the firm's co-founder and CEO.

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