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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). As a result, I really saw Visalus as a technology company. What's the theme of your investments?

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ZunguZ Facebook Payment Application | Interview With The Founder Robert Sussman

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The multi-tiered platform allows for money to be transferred between Facebook friends, the ability to click and purchase any item that you see on Facebook and through the published API’s, developers can integrate and write their own applications on top of the ZunguZ platform. Why the name? We liked the Z on the beginning and the Z on the end.

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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. We found that software wasn't being bought by the team members and product leaders who needed it, but was being bought by CIOs in large corporations. Any lessons you've learned in the process?

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