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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies. Currently offers 3mm books to over 5,000 higher education institutions in the US. Revenue model: % of total ad or data buy purchased through platform.

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How A Pivot Turned Vantage Media Into A $100M Plus Business

socalTECH

However, if you talk to a lot of people about who Vantage Media is, a lot of them think we''re still an agency, specifically focused on for-profit education marketing. That technology underpins marketplaces in auto, health, life insurance, and even education. However, that''s who we were in 2002, and stopped being in 2010.

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Protect Your Parents from Avis Budget: Direct Marketing Scumbags

Both Sides of the Table

But something happened during my Thanksgiving break that has me so extremely pissed off at the predatory practices of a financial institution the preys on the elderly, less educated and lower-income people that can least afford it. Or again here in Consumer Affairs dating back to 2005. I hope you’re OK with that. Background.

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How Kazuhm Is Reconnecting The Enterprise Cloud, With Tim O'Neal

socalTECH

Kazuhm is recapturing the capacity in those desktops, creating a commercial grade, distributed computing platform based on that capacity. We worked on consolidation with business units, and did that for Bridgepoint Education and smaller companies, where I actually drove a lot of cloud migration stuff. They had probably 20 or 30.

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How Liferay Grew To More Than $100M After Starting In A Church Basement

socalTECH

Bryan Cheung: What we're specifically doing, is a product called the LifeRay digital experience platform. They are solved by people investing time and energy, by people giving other opportunities, by creating jobs, educating people, and pushing the envelope in terms of what's possible with human potential.

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Kerri Pollard Discloses Commission Junction’s Secret Weapon: Humble Confidence And A Healthy Dose Of Passionate Conviction

InfoChachkie

Kerri set the stage at the outset of her talk, noting, “What I would like to do today is to demonstrate to all of you that you don't need to be a member of the educated elite or possess the intellect of a Mark Zuckerberg to be successful. Over the course of 2004 and 2005, we actually merged Be Free and Commission Junction together. .

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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

an enterprise social networking platform provider located in Los Angeles, CA. In 2005, Majid coauthored "Data Strategy" a book designed to help streamline information management within organizations. He was raised and educated in London. Before that, he was VP, Client Strategy at Blast Radius.