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MARCH 11, 2016

What do you get when you combine a charitable pub crawl, the movie Anchorman, and a software developer randomly hired off Craigslist? In the case of San Diego's Classy (www.classy.org), you get an extremely popular piece of software-as-a-service to help you manage a nonprofit and its fundraising efforts. How did you start the company?

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Santa Monica-based Happy Returns (www.happyreturns.com) is solving that issue, with a network of "return bars" it has opened in partnership with physical retailers. We do that through a network of physical locations, which we call Return Bars, all around the country. Returns by mail are really inefficient.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Andrew spoke to us about TrackStreet's brand protection software and artificial intelligence efforts. Andrew Schydlowsky: We entered this market in 2015, and we are backed by a combination of institutional investors, and some family offices, as well as some very experienced and successful angels and operators. What is TrackStreet?

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MARCH 10, 2017

What we did in 2014-2015 and most of 2016, was to really, really refine the business model, so that we could be a successful company, and not just have a successful product. But what's also happened, is we've narrowed down the set of networks that we use as consumers to engage with companies.

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MAY 25, 2016

Jim Armstrong: It's broadly technology, from consumer Internet, to marketplaces, from Internet infrastructure to enterprise software. There's also a great network effect happening in the area of industry clouds, and network capitalism, which is not just marketing poof. What is the investment focus for this fund?

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JULY 24, 2017

After about six or seven years of that, in 2015, in the larger WeMo space at CES, we demonstrated something we had been working on. We had companies we could do joint ventures with who could bring in things like machine learning, deeper engineering, deeper software, and other technology. That was incredibly valuable to us.

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JULY 28, 2017

That's securing the network, looking at endpoints, and making other security investments across the board, and on such things like mobile device management for mobile phones. In 2015, for example, 60 percent plus of attacks were somehow surrounding the root cause of misuse of stolen credentials. It's the elephant in the room.

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