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FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). To learn more, we caught up with Steve. Every other hand goes down, and ours stays up.

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JANUARY 4, 2013

Just before the holidays, we caught up with Blair Harrison , founder of Frequency (www.frequency.com), a personal video service which lets consumers watch video from the Internet on any of their devices. We caught up with Blair to learn more about his new startup, and why he thinks we need Frequency. What is Frequency?

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APRIL 2, 2010

Example: if a VC is on their fourth $200 million fund that they just raised in 2009 then you might hear them talk about $800 million under management. For example, my firm, GRP Partners, has a $200 million fund that was closed in March 2009 and we have 4 investment partners. What is total assets under management? -

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

One of the most frequent questions from high tech startups is: where''s my exit? We caught up with David Siemer , both an investment banker who runs Siemer & Associates (www.siemer.com) and an early stage investor here with Siemer Ventures (www.siemervc.com), to get his thoughts on the subject. Globalization is a big trend.

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JULY 20, 2015

Farhad Mohit: As you know, Bizrate spawned Shopzilla, which took us from 2000 to 2005. So, in September of 2007, I got back into it, and we got a group of people going on a new startup, DotSpots. So, by 2010, we decided that DotSpots was not going to work, so we pivoted, to a new startup called Gripe. So, that didn't scale well.

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JULY 20, 2015

Farhad Mohit: As you know, Bizrate spawned Shopzilla, which took us from 2000 to 2005. So, in September of 2007, I got back into it, and we got a group of people going on a new startup, DotSpots. So, by 2010, we decided that DotSpots was not going to work, so we pivoted, to a new startup called Gripe. So, that didn't scale well.

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