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APRIL 17, 2010

The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to. We had software executives from Google, Yahoo!, DataPop : DataPop was founded by performance marketing veterans from Yahoo!,

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socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

which became Softbank Marketing, selling ads for Yahoo before Yahoo had its own salesforce. Bruce Brown: I was working in 1985 writing keyboard and mouse drivers for Windows version 1. I moved to the Santa Monica office of Microsoft Consulting Service. Then I started working for these companies as well.

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Startup Mentor Southern California Incubator 221

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OCTOBER 29, 2009

was the “static&# web. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. was the 2-way web. I then remember when Amazon started selling books on the web. Advertising is also what allows you to watch Hulu for free, use Yahoo! So what do we mean by in-stream advertising? Everybody gains.

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Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

I live in the city of Santa Monica. That’s convenience when your VC is hoping to write the next $20 million check. You have huge hiring volume coming from the new growth firms (Twitter, Zynga, Facebook) and huge retention battles & hiring from Google, Apple, Cisco, Yahoo!, Let me use LA as an example.

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