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Bestcovery.com Rolls Out Web Widget

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Santa Monica-based Bestcovery.com , an online expert review and ranking site headed by former Pricegrabber.com co-founder and CEO, Kamran Pourzanjani, said today that it has rolled out a new widget which will allow web publishers to display its content. Pourzanjani was CEO of Pricegrabber.com until its $485M purchase by Experian in 2005.

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How Addroid Is Hoping To Solve The Ad Industry's Flash Problem, with Matt Cooper

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There's been a huge debate over the future of Adobe's Flash raging over the last month, as both Google and Mozilla disabled Flash due to security holes and other issues. I started a company, Neoganda, in the digital advertising area in 2005. Videos will not autoplay on a mobile device, just because you are using HTML5 code.

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Interview with Scott Lahman, GOGII

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We called the company GOGII--literally, our short text code of 60611, which you can looks a little like GOGII. Around 2005, those of us at JAMDAT thought Apple would disrupt the application space, so we approached Apple. That was our basis for doing something in text messaging.

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Interview with Brett Crosby and Brew Johnson, PeerStreet

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We sat down with Brett Crosby (who founded Urchin Software, the company which became Google Analytics) and Brew Johnson , the co-founders of the company, to learn more about the company and what it's working on. I came up with this idea due to a deep obsession with the mortgage industry. in a funding round.

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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map

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Adam Miller transformed his company into one of the world’s leading software-as-a-service companies, specifically in the HR world. Coffin sold LowerMyBills.com in 2005 for 300 million and took that money into the Los Angeles startup sector. socaltech socal socalcto magazine and the LA Business Journal. billion in shares.

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Interview with Peter Lee, Baroda Ventures

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He was basically active investing until 2004 and 2005, and then started getting much more involved in the non-profit space. I wouldn't say we're extremely close to anything right now, but we've seen I'd say at least three different companies were we went further than an initial meeting--not a term sheet, but deeper diligence.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

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When I saw what BuddyTV is working on and how long they’ve been the market (since 2005) I realized that this has huge potential to help disrupt the television market. Consider just how much exposure the Austin community gets every year due to SXSW. In LA we have SoCalTech , for which I am grateful. No Dave S. =