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Los Angeles Startup Weekend August 2011 | The Complete Breakdown

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We also had awesome group of mentors that included: David Waxman (Co-founder of PeoplePC, Spot Runner and Firefly Network), Paige Craig (CEO of BetterWorks ), Josh MacAdam (Co-founder/CTO at Ming.ly Guests, visitors and teams mingled away enjoying appetizers and snacks along with this LASW’s 3rd keg. Rob Maigret. Scott Sangster.

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Interview with Scott Ferreira, MySocialCloud

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By the end of my sophomore year, I decided to go after this full time, and that's when I officially brought on a CTO, Shiv Prakash, and we went at it in the summer of 2011, and the rest is kind of history. Both have been great mentors ever since. We understand this whole effort was actually backed by Sir Richard Branson?

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Gabi Sorts & Ranks What’s Important to You | Interview With CEO Stefanie Hoffmann

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We started thinking about new ways of interacting with social networks in November 2011. I was the CEO of aki-aki and Gabriel Palomino was the CTO. Any mentors or VC’s? No mentors and no investors so far, we are open to discussion. Gabi is nearly eight months old. So, you are the founder and CEO? Any word from Facebook?