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How Nils Forsblom Is Reinventing Himself In Mobile With TenFarms

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Everyone from our team is from Finland, one is from Portugal, and we come and go between California and Finland. How did you end up here in Southern California? I then went back to Europe to create a company called Fruugo, which was a big startup back in the day, in 2006 in Europe. What happened there? READ MORE>>.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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It’s always fun debating companies with Dana because she’s always so knowledgeable on deals – particularly those in the digital media, ad-tech and eCommerce spaces. Their first fund was a $75 million fund raised in 2006 and they very recently announced a brand new $130 million fund. Greycroft is an early-stage VC. Competitors: Knewton.

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First Ever Startup Weekend Orange County Live!

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He joined Miramar in 2006. He received his MS degree in Electrical Engineering, from the University of Southern California and his MBA from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management where he was a Deutschman Venture Fellow. Through Tech Coast Angels, he has screened in excess of four hundred start-up companies.

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Interview with Curtis Staker and William Goldbach, Confident Technologies

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It has nine pictures or more on screen, and in each location there are pictures that contain pictures from your category or have different letters in different locations. It was funded in 2006 with about $8M in investments, and we were fortunate to have the benefit of that investment in the development of the intellectual property.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

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Otis Chandler built Goodreads in 2006 because he believed in social networking and wanted to see what his friends were reading. Traveling from city to city the Detox Market introduces carefully screened green brands in beauty, fashion and food to the consumer who wants to detoxify their body and living environment.