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Interview With CEO Jason Njoku iRoko Partners | Africa’s Netflix Set To Disrupt US TV & Cable Market

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Njoku in April this year closed an $8m funding investment round from Tiger Global and another $2m from a Swedish firm, Kinnevik and still he says more is yet to come. For only $5 a month, subscribers can access brand new Nollywood movies (made in 2012), streamed in HD. Exciting times are ahead for African entrepreneurs!

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Interview with Michael Greenberg, Retina

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That's when I started my first company, ScaleFunder, which we spun out of the UC California system in 2012. Many businesses we were investing in were seeing their acquisition costs increase, and I met Emad, who saw that figuring out CLV was the only way out of this acquisition cost hole. They are sitting on an untapped gold mine.

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Tech Titans Peter Thiel, Matt Jacobson, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Mich Mathews, Elon Musk Buy Homes in Los Angeles

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October 5, 2012. Tech entrepreneurs and executives from Silicon Valley are moving south and buying up luxury homes in the Los Angeles area. Andrew Frame, a 30-something entrepreneur who founded Internet-telephone company Ooma, bought a contemporary four bedroom in Bel Air for $5.5 2012, compared with the same period in 2011.