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Interview with Scott Cannon, CEO of BigRentz

socalTECH

Scott Cannon: We started in 2012, when it was basically a couple of people on a telephone and the yellow pages. We bring value to those small guys who can't compete against a $60 million marketing budget. Really, we're the sales and marketing arm of those companies. We sold that to a very large private equity company.

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Timing and why we’re all VCs

TechCrunch LA

Capitalism is fundamentally about timing, since market competition is about finding opportunities before others. Anyone who has worked in a large company further knows that timing a product launch or a new marketing strategy has more to do with internal politics than reading market forces. When should you start a company?

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Indianapolis is the “It Place” to Start a Startup?

Tech Zulu Event

CircleUp is an online social marketplace that supports direct equity investments from individual investors to small private consumer and retail companies. So this past October 2012, after years of investigative scientific research “ Electrified ” became a reality. image EPA/Andrew Gombert. Word of mouth travels far.

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Twitter, Jobs, Democracy & The US Elections

Both Sides of the Table

In a world where it’s easier to judge the immediate value of a business, I know that metrics like “time on site&# matter. Brands who build pages there are not building equity in the open Internet, they’re building it in today’s walled garden. Get people to your website and never let them leave. Not so open.