socalTECH

MAY 18, 2011

The firm is backed by Ashton Kutcher, Aydin Senkut Ron Conway, Naval Ravikant, the fouders of Groupon, and others. Zaarly , a startup founded by Bo Fishback and Eric Koester at the event, has opened up its mobile marketplace, which helps connects buyers and sellers using mobile phones.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2011

We had a very sensible debate on the topic on VentureHacks sponsored by Nivi and including Naval Ravikant. He believes that Hunch is great for e-commerce because it can help to remedy the “cold start problem,” as the product is great with taking a sparse amount of information and coming up with a targeted recommendation.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 8, 2011

We are building an infinite marketplace for items and services that literally does not exist in the mobile commerce space. We have an phenomenal group of investors that includes Ashton Kutcher, Felicis Ventures, Paul Buchheit, Bill Lee, Naval Ravikant, and Lightbank – the venture fund created by Groupon’s founders.

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AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 7, 2008

My colleague at National Defense University, Dr. Tim Coffey, head of the Naval Research Laboratory for many years, called these two parts of discovery the "prospecting" and "mining" phases in a 2005 paper ( [link] ), where prospecting is largely the responsibility of the government and mining that of industry.

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