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APRIL 14, 2011

I ended up passing on the Twitter investment, but I put out a blog post at the time--I was working for CBS--asking if someone would want to build it, and a kid named Soren MacBeth emailed me back saying he'd build it, which started the idea of StockTwits. Advertising is one of our revenue streams right now, but not our core focus.

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MAY 4, 2011

Norgard is a serial entrepreneur, having co-founded NewRoo (acquired by Fox Interactive Media/MySpace) and co-founding Twitter advertising startup Ad.ly. Dan and I, my co-founder, obviously have social networking and advertising backgrounds. First off, what is Namesake all about? Brian Norgard: Namesake is a conversation community.

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APRIL 14, 2010

I started looking to sell ModernMom and do something strategic a few years ago when I saw that there was a shift in the mom space, where advertisers and brand partners were moving from targeting mass numbers of people, towards niche sites. That definitely has something to do with it. Lolita Carrico: I think so. Is that the case?

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FEBRUARY 7, 2012

It's like WordPress, but instead of blogging, it provides an online community, which is self-hosted. We're definitely Los Angeles natives, but we got the opportunity to do TechStars. Alex Benzer: I was a computer kid in high school, though I thought I'd go into advertising. SocialEngine is a white-label, community platform.

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