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OCTOBER 10, 2013

Michael Kleist: We started in 2010. In 2011, we built our site, and in 2012, last year, we started getting content. Our CTO is mainland Chinese, but was educated here. Fortunately our CTO doesn''t have that problem. How long has company been around? But, you can overcome it. Was language an issue at all for your company?

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JULY 20, 2015

So, by 2010, we decided that DotSpots was not going to work, so we pivoted, to a new startup called Gripe. That was between 2010 and 2012. In 2012, we decided to pivot again, aiming at the same group of consumers, turning into Cheers, a positive social network, kind of the opposite of gripe. So, that didn't scale well.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

So, by 2010, we decided that DotSpots was not going to work, so we pivoted, to a new startup called Gripe. That was between 2010 and 2012. In 2012, we decided to pivot again, aiming at the same group of consumers, turning into Cheers, a positive social network, kind of the opposite of gripe. So, that didn't scale well.

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MAY 7, 2013

Ynon & I first discussed Maker in early 2012. Dana Settle (Greycroft) & I had led the first round of investment in the company in 2010 and we were looking for smart media investors to join us as investors in the company. Another major hire was Ryan Lissack who joined as CTO.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2013

It all started with one Meetup in November 2010 in D.C. By November 2012, CoFoundersLab Meetups had expanded to 20 cities. They took the “Match.com for entrepreneurs” model literally and hired the former CTO of Match.com to create the algorithms to help predict and recommend matches. titled “Co-Founders Wanted.”

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. In early 2010 Jameson Morris sought out to share his passion for natural, sustainable living with world and founded Organic Soul , which in less than a years time grew to become one of the largest organic living publications online. Idea Mensch.

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