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What Mattered in 2012: Aber Whitcomb, io/LA

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We asked the same four questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next week. Aber Whitcomb is a partner at startup co-working and incubation community io/LA , CTO of SGN , and former co-founder and CTO of MySpace.

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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. 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. Michael Kleist: We started in 2010.

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

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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. Fortunately, Bryan, our CTO at the time, said his wife worked with two guys who had started this thing called Flipagram in 2012.

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

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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. Fortunately, Bryan, our CTO at the time, said his wife worked with two guys who had started this thing called Flipagram in 2012.

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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. © 2012 IdeaMensch. Idea Mensch.