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Make It Work – the real story

Eric Greenspan

The real story behind Make It Work’s demise isn’t exciting. We failed because the economy has drastically fallen since 2008, particularly in the consumer sector. Make It Work was an amazing company. As Make It Work’s co-founder and CEO, I take responsibility.

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Make It Work- the real story

InfoChachkie

Entrepreneurs are inundated with success stories, but far less is written about ventures that do not succeed. The real story behind Make It Work’s demise isn’t exciting. We failed because the economy has drastically fallen since 2008, particularly in the consumer sector. Make It Work was an amazing company.

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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

In those days we did it for the joy of problem-solving and seeing something we created in our brains be realized in the real world (or at least the real, digital world). I started my first company in 1999 and was admittedly swept up in all of this: Magazine covers, fancy conferences, artificial valuations and easy money.

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Inside the Realms of Ruin

TechCrunch LA

As the catalyst for this collaborative fantasy epic, these authors would post twelve initial origin stories about their fictional universe, to which they owned the copyright. Then fans would be tasked with writing their own stories, submitting them to the Realms of Ruin universe by minting them as NFTs on the Solana blockchain.

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Interview with Paige Craig, Betterworks

socalTECH

Craig has recently uncloaked his stealth startup, BetterWorks (www.betterworks.com), focused on helping companies to manage and offer fringe benefits to their employees. 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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Upfront Ventures Raised New $280 Million Fund

Both Sides of the Table

We’ve been dying to tell you all for a while that we had raised a new venture capital fund and of course given SEC filing requirements the story was somewhat already scooped by the always-in-the-know Dan Primack a few weeks ago. We raised $280 million. Wait, didn’t you just raise a fund? Was it hard to raise the fund?

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Page Howe: Why Everyone In LA Ought To Have a.LA Domain

socalTECH

We recently ran into Page Howe , the Chief Engagement Officer for the.LA (www.la) domain name extension, who sat down with us and told us about why he's out making the rounds with community groups and events, promoting the use of.LA Page Howe: LA is a domain name that works perfectly for companies and brands in LA.