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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

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Why Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers. In many of them I get asked similar questions, including the inevitable “what makes a great entrepreneur?” Marketplace companies are notoriously difficult to start, so I'm constantly amazed that so many entrepreneurs chose this route. If you’re an entrepreneur, the glib answer is “no.”

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Interview with Scott Saunders, Payoff.com

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To do that, the firm has combined the world of social networking and personal finance with its newly launched service. Scott Saunders: I spent nearly my entire career on the investment side, and in 2005 switched over to the entrepreneurial side of the world. Tell me the story behind Payoff.com?

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Flipagram: Using Photos And Music To Create A Viral Machine, with Farhad Mohit

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We spoke with Farhad Mohit , the CEO of Flipagram and a successful serial entrepreneur (having founded Bizrate, which later became Shozilla, and was sold to Scripps), to learn more about the story behind Flipagram and the vision behind its app. Farhad Mohit: As you know, Bizrate spawned Shopzilla, which took us from 2000 to 2005.

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Flipagram: Using Photos And Music's To Create A Viral Machine, with Farhad Mohit

socalTECH

We spoke with Farhad Mohit , the CEO of Flipagram and a successful serial entrepreneur (having founded Bizrate, which later became Shozilla, and was sold to Scripps), to learn more about the story behind Flipagram and the vision behind its app. Farhad Mohit: As you know, Bizrate spawned Shopzilla, which took us from 2000 to 2005.

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Interview with Eric Bjorndahl, TravBuddy.com

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Eric Bjorndahl: At the highest level, we're a social networking web site for travelers. How we differentiate from other social networks that are more general, is that we offer lots of features specific to travelers. Berkeley in 2005, and right after that I started working on the site. He graduated from U.C.

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Interview with Zac Brandenberg, Meteor Games

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These are what you might consider traditional, Facebook casual social games. On Island Paradise, for example, you get a plot of land, you can raise animals and farm crops on them, grow trees, etcetera. They created Neopets, brought it to the US, helped it grow, and eventually sold it to Viacom in 2005. How did the firm start?

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

SoCal Delicious

What are some examples of successful companies that were started here? Demand Media is an online media company operating two strategically-linked businesses: an integrated content and social media platform, and registrar solutions. It was acquired by Experian in 2005 for $330M. It also was acquired by Experian in 2005.

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