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Ryan Blair, HashtagOne: From Gang Member, To Entrepreneur, To Anti-VC

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He eventually founded and sold consumer health firm ViSalus to a public company and is now back making investments, in technology companies, as a venture capitalist here at Los Angeles-based HashtagOne (www.hashtagone.com). I had a sales force when I was at SkyPipeline, selling telecom, networking, and broadband wireless products.

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ZunguZ Facebook Payment Application | Interview With The Founder Robert Sussman

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African ICT Achiever Awards – Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the Year – WINNER multiple times (Annex.13). We are in the process of integrating into various point of sales and providing prefunded vouchers for the unbanked. We believe we have a disruptive technology that is the next big thing. We don’t compete with banks.

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Interview with Dipanshu Sharma, Kadonk

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Often times, in the world of cell phones and high tech software, you don't know the challenges throughout the process of creating a product. There was a disconnect between the product and the sales process. Every company that did try it or buy it gave rave reviews, and said that this was what they wanted.

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