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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

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Ynon & I first discussed Maker in early 2012. Another major hire was Ryan Lissack who joined as CTO. And we are unbelievably proud to see the company grow from small, crappy offices above a taco shop in Venice to a production home in Culver City with 70,000 square feet and more than 50,000 individual content contributors.

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MuckerLab Unveils Second Graduating Class to Investors

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The co-founder core team, including a CTO, should be fully formed and passionate enough to be working on the project full time. With over 9 million photo questions posted since October 2012, their users spend 170 minutes a month on the service. A prototype that can be used for testing and validation is another win.

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Miigle Revisited | A SoCal Startup With a Global Mission

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We first interviewed Luc in 2012, just as he was launching the prototype for Miigle. Can you explain in greater detail how the platform’s algorithm works to make it easier for entrepreneurs to find the right partner/advisor and to extend assistance to one another? In 2012 Miigle was just in its beginning stages.

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Ryan Blair, HashtagOne: From Gang Member, To Entrepreneur, To Anti-VC

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He eventually founded and sold consumer health firm ViSalus to a public company and is now back making investments, in technology companies, as a venture capitalist here at Los Angeles-based HashtagOne (www.hashtagone.com). As a result, I really saw Visalus as a technology company.

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myLINGO | Connecting Non-English Speakers with the Movies

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OP: It was 2012 when my brother and I took our cousin who was visiting from Poland to go see the movie Hugo. We also have Chris Cookson as a technical advisor. He’s a former President of Sony Pictures Technologies and former CTO of Warner Bros. What problem were you trying to solve? Entertainment.

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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. Matt Miller – Co-Founder and CTO of CareerBliss.com. Matt Miller is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of CareerBliss.com – an online career community that helps everyone find happiness in the workplace. Idea Mensch.