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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

Both Sides of the Table

They often make great team members such as head of products, CTO, head of sales, CFO, etc. Partners in VC funds only wanted to fund entrepreneurs who had a certain percentage of their net worth tied up in their venture. Your financial risks of starting most technology companies these days are so low. That’s hard core.

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Why The Growth Of The Internet Is Driving EdgeCast's Revenues

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We started the company in the fall of 2006, launched in 2007, and have been offering our services to all kinds of mission critical websites since then. The Internet doesn't work right, and is broken, and without a CDN, you can't do what you need to do if you're the CTO of a large website. We've grown really fast.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

SoCal Delicious

Loren Bendele joined Savings.com in January 2007 as the CEO. Goodreads raised a Series A round of funding from True Ventures in the summer of 2009. Rebecca Pontius is co-founder of the Do Good Bus — a transportable community service venture based in Los Angeles, CA. Matt Miller – Co-Founder and CTO of CareerBliss.com.