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How Chippmunk Hopes To Use UX To Rise Above The Coupon Crowd

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The online coupon search industry is very crowded, with dozens of sites, players large and small, and is a very confusing landscape for consumers. There''s a ton of coupon and deals sites. They do a Google search, and they''re presented with thousands of sites in the search results. Why are you different?

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Interview with Jo Webber, Pod.io

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Today's interview is with Jo Webber , the CEO and founder of Pod.io , a startup which has developed an app to help people connect with others over shared interests. Jo Webber: Why we created Pod, was we've look at sites like Facebook, which has really taken off with friends and family, and helped them communicate online.

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Interview: Kevin O’Connor of FindTheBest

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You can fool me on an interview, but two months from now we’ll know.”. 8 ) Although you wrote an excellent business book ( The Map Of Innovation ) that is consistently well received by my UCSB entrepreneurial students, I know you are not a huge fan of most business books. 10) Kevin, why does the world need FindTheBest (FTB)?

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Interview: Kevin O’Connor of FindTheBest

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8 ) Although you wrote an excellent business book ( The Map Of Innovation ) that is consistently well received by my UCSB entrepreneurial students, I know you are not a huge fan of most business books. You can fool me on an interview, but two months from now we’ll know.’. We have a job link at our site at: [link].”.

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Interview with Navid Nobakht, Recmnd.Me

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We caught up with Navid --one of a number of executives to have recently departed Buy.com after its acquisition a couple of years ago by Rakuten--to hear more about his new startup. It's hard to determine when a person who looks good on paper and at an interview, is actually someone who can execute on the job. Describe what Recmnd.me

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Interview with Ryan Disraeli And Stacy Stubblefield, Telesign

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For this morning's interview, we thought we'd catch up with two of the co-founders of Marina Del Rey-based Telesign (www.telesign.com), Ryan Disraeli and Stacy Stubblefield. We were really focused on customer acquisition. Telesign--which now has over 300 employees-- recently was acquired by BICS in a deal worth $230M.

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Interview with David Sacks, Geni and Yammer

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Our interview this morning is with David Sacks, CEO of Geni.com, an online family tree and social networking site, as well as Yammer, the instant messaging startup spun out of Geni.com at TechCrunch50. We're up to around 2 million users who have created 30 million profiles on the site, and it's growing very fast month over month.

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