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OCTOBER 25, 2010

billion in 2005, and finally sold again to Google in 2007 for $3.1 We caught up with Kevin to hear what FindTheBest is all about, and why he decided to get back into the startup game. We caught up with Kevin to hear what FindTheBest is all about, and why he decided to get back into the startup game.

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JUNE 30, 2011

We caught up with Howard to hear about what Gamzee is all about, and where he thinks the next big thing in games is going to be. What is Gamzee all about? I returned to the gaming industry in 2005, when I started Acclaim Games, which we then sold to Playdom. The Like button is a good example.

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JULY 18, 2013

We spoke with Arjan Shutte about the investment firm and its interest in financial startups, and why it moved from New York. Since coming here, we''re actually really excited about how many exciting financial technology startups we have run across, which is a lot more than we originally thought. How did you end up in Los Angeles?

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AUGUST 22, 2018

They sat down and told us a bit about whyafter a string of successful companieswhy they've gotten back into the startup game, and why they've decided to tackle the whole area of getting you into your office. In 2000, James and I started KnowledgeBase, which we sold in 2005. That's what got us to go about it. What is OpenPath?

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AUGUST 6, 2013

I was reading an old article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 But within five years it became an overnight success, and now has about 400 million users worldwide.

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JUNE 6, 2011

Dan Dato: My background is I've spent just about my entire career in the startup ecosystem, in one way or another. I worked with the founders as a consultant for about a year, before I joined then in 1998. Bruce and I had been talking about this concept since we met each other four years ago. Bruce, what's your background?

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JULY 20, 2010

One of Southern California's successful, serial entrepreneurs is Winston Damarillo , who founded Gluecode, which he sold to IBM in 2005. We thought we'd catch back up with Winston to hear about the Morphlabs. The company is about three years old, and we had our first product initially in Japan. What's Morphlabs?

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JULY 27, 2015

You guys were at a digital agency, can you talk about how you spun this out into an independent company? I started a company, Neoganda, in the digital advertising area in 2005. I think it's a shining example of Silicon Beach's technology helping out Hollywod. Matt Cooper: It was a classic, scratch-your-own-itch product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

I was reading an old article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 With most businesses you rarely hear about the months and years of hard work behind the scenes.

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APRIL 20, 2011

One example is that they introduced a program where their founders can pool together shares from their company and exchange them for a small portfolio of other First Round Capital companies. It is clear that he is simply passionate about being a VC and participating in this industry. I'm a huge fan of this innovation. and Half.com.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2014

We sat down and spoke with Patrick about the business and its pivot. Tell us about what your business is nowadays? 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. Talk about those operations in Guatemala?

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JULY 9, 2012

I was reading an article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 But within five years it became an overnight success, and now has about 400 million users worldwide.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

The startup is headed by Robert Flynn --a former VC, and co-founder of Liquid Audio, and most recently head of Modern Feed, the company that is now Clicker--who talked with us about his new company. He has been blogging on a number of subjects, for example, eLearning. What is Aggregage? Robert Flynn: I'm actually an LA native.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

It’s a hard topic to write about because it’s almost an accepted norm that total transparency is good. We funded one in 2005 and lost a lot of money. I’ve written about the downsides on health & relationships and about the insane emotional stresses that people don’t generally tell you about.

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APRIL 13, 2011

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 For example we have a theme we call human computer interaction, a theme we call Glue – which is a software layer that glues things together on the internet. RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I

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MARCH 26, 2011

I was reading an article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 But within five years it became an overnight success, and now has about 400 million users worldwide.

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OCTOBER 1, 2010

Taher tells us about his journey from Silicon Valley to Southern California, the inspiration behind the site, and where he hopes to take the business next. Say you're a Realtor, you probably get lots of business based on referrals, and when past customers talk about you in a good light, that sends more customers your way.

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JUNE 22, 2011

I spoke about a lot of things during the keynote. I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. I will write more about this in the next 2 weeks. I will write more about this in the next 2 weeks.

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JUNE 9, 2010

He’d been working at a well-funded startup for about a year and had come to terms with the fact that the startup was really a pretty dumb idea. We'll be your hosts for a three-part series about the use of MongoDB here at Etsy. In the second post, John Allspaw will talk about how well MongoDB is working out operationally.

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AUGUST 8, 2012

Since Dolgoff is raising money for his 2D-to-3D startup via Fundable, we thought it would be interesting to hear about the project, and how he ended up turning to Fundable. Tell us about your project? You've got an interesting story, can you talk about your road here?

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AUGUST 11, 2011

To hear more about where exactly the firm fits in a crowded space, we spoke with Eli Portnoy, the firm's founder. If you think about a local business down the street, they all have times they are busy and times they are slow. If you think about it, that's kind of ridiculous--someone 22 or 23 years old, giving corporation advice.

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APRIL 7, 2011

We thought we'd learn a bit more about the practical barriers in taking many eco-friendly technology innovations into the market, plus the contrast between the construction and architecture business and the high tech investing world. First, explain what your company is all about? It's been around for about 20 years.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

What''s interesting about ad-tech, is that with the exception of AdaptTV and AOL, there''s not a lot of large buyers out there for ad-tech companies. How about mergers and acquisitions? If you go back to 2005 and 2006 and look at a company which would have a $5M pre- then, it''s now $8 to $10M, all else equal. Now we have it.

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MARCH 29, 2010

I was reading an article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 But within five years it became an overnight success, and now has about 400 million users worldwide.

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MARCH 29, 2010

We talked with Jeff about his new startup, and where it fits into the Internet ad market. It's divided into two tranches, we've closed the first tranche, and have almost completely closed on the second tranche, which is about a week away. Can you give us some examples of the kinds of data you're using? funding round.

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JUNE 27, 2011

Scott Saunders: I spent nearly my entire career on the investment side, and in 2005 switched over to the entrepreneurial side of the world. Out of that, I got to learn about financial default, financial services, and banks. I built up the company, the Walz Group, with partners. We think that will be very motivational.

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MARCH 25, 2016

I like to use the example of a company I backed called MakeSpace because it’s such an easy an obvious market to understand. If you’re not even spending any time thinking about what your market could be you’re simply being lazy and unprepared. MakeSpace provides physical storage. Let me be very direct.

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MAY 25, 2010

I didn’t know what I was getting into when I started buying live endorsement radio ads back in 2005. I am excited about the future and quite honestly, marketing has never been so much fun. As I prepare for my role as emcee in June for Convergence 2010 , I began to look back at how I got involved in radio. Tell no one!

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NOVEMBER 4, 2008

The highly ranked travel site was founded, and bootstrapped, by two brothers--Eric and David Bjorndahl--and we talked with Eric about the company. For our readers who haven't used your site, what's it all about? For example, if you wanted to travel somewhere, such as Paris, at Christmas, you can see who else is going at the same time.

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JULY 20, 2015

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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JULY 20, 2015

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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MAY 11, 2011

We spoke with co-founder and CEO Elizabeth Amini , to hear more about what the firm is doing, how Bushnell got involved, as well as the firm's unique outlook and dedication to giving back through social entrepreneurship. Elizabeth Amini: I actually ran into him in 2005, when he was a keynote speaker at a conference.

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JUNE 30, 2016

On the flip side, Pazdur chided the drug industry recently about the lack of innovative work in checkpoint inhibitors, antibody-based cancer immunotherapy drugs that knock out cancer’s ability to hide from the immune system. With Pazdur’s higher profile, such statements would take on more weight.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The fund is just celebrated its first year in business, so we thought we'd catch up with Brian to hear more about what the firm is investing in, the challenges of raising a venture fund in this market, plus his view on the Los Angeles venture market. Brian Garrett: We started Crosscut Ventures about a year ago. What do you invest in?

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

We spoke with Derrick Oien, president and co-founder of the firm, about the company's mobile social networking applications, as well as about his view on penetrating the mobile carriers. A good example of what we do is, you can open a WAP browser on your phone and go to m.myspace.com, which is perfectly fiîe.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

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. Can you talk about how your Internet ad experience might be applied here? How did the firm start?

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OCTOBER 8, 2008

We spoke with the two founders of the firm, Rob Angarita and Aaron Hawkey , about what the site is all about, and the interesting way in which they connected with their angel investor. First off, tell us what Cramster is all about? How did the company come about? We asked Shai -- how did he hear about us?

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