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LA Tech Startup Innovators and Fun Facts

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Their roster of success includes numerous pioneering tech companies, many of which continue to be industry leaders today — Overture, BillMeLater, CitySearch, and more. Their Behavioral Marketing Platform even broke new ground at ad:tech 2011 winning an innovation award. Entertainment Tech: Atom Factory.

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Interview with Sam Rogoway, Near Networks

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Sam Rogoway: We use YouTube as our hosting platform, for a variety of reasons. Sam Rogoway: I'm an entertainment attorney by trade, and have represented a number of the largest reality production companies, as well as award winning filmmakers, both scripted and documentark filmmakers. Where do those videos get distribute?

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

Both Sides of the Table

It’s not uncommon for incredibly smart and talented Phd’s or CS majors from Stanford to raise $10 million on an early-stage “platform&# that if it succeeds it will be huge. We were also an investor in the early local listing company, CitySearch – an LA company. As a result many funds are OK with big bets.

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Interview with Chris Lyman and Corey Brundage, SendLove.to

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We've instead taken those comments and turned them into scores and a rating platform. We've got the name of every politician, entertainer, celebrity, athlete, business person, and brand -- you name it, we have it. Places are rated pretty well--you've got Yelp taking care of that, CitySearch, and other sites doing that really well.

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