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Interview with Howard Lindzon, StockTwits

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He was also the founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007, is an investor in a significant number of web and social media companies. What's the whole story behind StockTwits and how it came about? I remember saying that I just don't get it, even though they had a great story.

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Interview with Paige Craig, Betterworks

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Los Angeles area entrepreneurs, investors, and startups have gotten to know Paige Craig fairly well over the last few years, as he's made many investments in the local ecosystem. Tell us the story behind Betterworks and what you're trying to do? Paige Craig: At the high level, we're making work rewarding.

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How ConsumerTrack Has Created A Growing, Profitable--and Mostly Unknown Business

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We''ve also built a data driven platform, that allows us to drive millions of unique visitors to our network of sites every month, covering the banking, credit, and travel and vertical markets. What''s the story behind the company? Brett Rossman: We have a platform we''ve built, and which we are constantly evolving called Magneto.

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Flipagram: Using Photos And Music To Create A Viral Machine, with Farhad Mohit

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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. It was a very ambitious project, but it didn't quite work, because it was too ambitious.

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Flipagram: Using Photos And Music's To Create A Viral Machine, with Farhad Mohit

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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. It was a very ambitious project, but it didn't quite work, because it was too ambitious.

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Interview with Jeff Green, The Trade Desk

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The firm's CEO and founder, Jeff Green , was a co-founder of AdECN, the Internet advertising exchange acquired in 2007 by Microsoft. What's the story behind the funding? What's the story behind the funding? We built a hub, where we could conduct auctions, in real time, and allowed people to participate in real time.

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Interview with Yan Hui, AirHop

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To make these smaller cells work, the way you would traditionally operate and manage them are not going to be sufficient. Our software makes these things work. What makes individual telecom carriers decide they want to implement your software? What's the story behind how your company came about?