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Interview with Steve Jillings, TeleSign

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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). They started in January of 2005. In 2011, we had two of our patents approved.

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Interview with Kanaan Jemili, uCast Global

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Kanaan Jemili: I have been in Southern California for more than 18 years. In 2004 and 2005, I was at DivX in San Diego, and I was head of product there. For the first three years, it was all about research and development, building IP and patents and so forth. Whats your background, and how did you get into this?

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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map

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A SoCal native and graduate of both UCLA and USC, Richard Rosenblatt led the growth of MySpace from an unknown to a household name. There are a couple of names that pop up all over the Southern California entrepreneurship community. Iraq a hard place to work, is not SoCal. It also won a number of key patents bit.ly/RiJCFI

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Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles

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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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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

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Why Lawyers Don’t Run Startups - Steve Blank , May 27, 2010 Startups need to have a great lawyer, accountant, patent attorney, etc. The video is only 16 minutes long and it is well worth the time. saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. It's a great talk. Why Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers.

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Interview with Curtis Staker and William Goldbach, Confident Technologies

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We bought the assets from Vidoop, which was an LLC that was first established in late 2005 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. We also assumed over 50 pending patents, from ten different patent families. But, it was important that was in Southern California. C can you talk about how you ended up at Confident Technologies?

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Reflections on 2018: Kelly Perdew, Moonshots Capital

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Editor's note: As we head into the new year, we've been featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. You'll be able to browse all of those contributions here. He later earned his JD/MBA degrees from UCLA.

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