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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I first met Ethan in 2005. I acted as the occasional mentor, advisor and coach to Ethan. So the team set out to solve the “chicken or the egg” problem by onboarding > 1,000 high-quality merchants across 50 service categories while going deep in two micro-areas within LA as our test market.

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MARCH 1, 2010

The city has, however, quietly been home to some of the most successful online companies to date, including CitySearch (sold to Ticketmaster for $260 million in 1998), Overture (acquired by Yahoo for $2 billion in 2003), eHarmony and LowerMyBills (bought by Experian for $330 million in 2005). is equally convenient as in Silicon Valley.

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JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. He knows the history of all of the payment gateways, mobile payment platforms, credit offerings, remittance companies, etc. One of the best sales coaches I ever worked with used to talk to me about “testing prospects.”

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