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How Chinese Startup Tradesparq Is Looking To Grow In SoCal

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It''s a social network for world trade, kind of a combo between Alibaba and LinkedIn. 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.

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

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So, by 2010, we decided that DotSpots was not going to work, so we pivoted, to a new startup called Gripe. Grip was sort of a better social Better Business Bureau, which let people post their complaints and get resolution in public, non-anonymously. That was between 2010 and 2012. So, that didn't scale well.

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

socalTECH

So, by 2010, we decided that DotSpots was not going to work, so we pivoted, to a new startup called Gripe. Grip was sort of a better social Better Business Bureau, which let people post their complaints and get resolution in public, non-anonymously. That was between 2010 and 2012. So, that didn't scale well.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Otis Chandler built Goodreads in 2006 because he believed in social networking and wanted to see what his friends were reading. Matt Miller – Co-Founder and CTO of CareerBliss.com. Idea Mensch. where entrepreneurs share their stories.