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Interview with Mike Jones, Science Inc.

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(www.science-inc.com), headed by Mike Jones , the former CEO of Myspace. Mike Jones: Coming out of Myspace, I looked at both operational roles and joining a venture fund. You just left MySpace--when did you decide to start Science? They're pioneering interesting forms of commerce and business models. What is Science?

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

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Why did MySpace lose to Facebook & what can Twitter learn from this? encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. MySpace grew faster because Friendster’s servers couldn’t scale. MySpace didn’t handle images or video well. Fox bought MySpace for $580 million.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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He led and sold MySpace to Fox for $650 million. But the “monetization heart of the Internet” doesn’t stop at Overture, Applied Semantics and MySpace. We don’t seem to get credit as a community for SpaceX or recognition as one of the fastest growing communities for commerce: Honest Company & JustFab.

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TechZulu Presents 2012 Startup Forecast | Featuring Science, Tech Coast Angels, Amplify, StartEngine, upStart.LA

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Former CEO of Myspace. Most recently Mike Jones served as the CEO of Myspace. In this role, Mike oversaw global business strategy and operations for Myspace, Myspace Music, and Myspace Mobile, which included board and strategic roles with joint venture partners in Myspace China and Myspace Japan / Softbank.

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Mike Jones of Science Inc, On Exits And Finding The Right Entrepreneurs

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www.science-inc.com), the startup �studio� led by former MySpace CEO and technology veteran Mike Jones , just saw its third acquisition out of its portfolio this year�the acquisition of FameBit by Google/Youtube. They had been huge fans of the platform, and I think they had a super, genuine connection with Youtube, thus with Google.

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Interview with Jonathan Shokrian and Barak Diskin, MeUndies

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Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based MeUndies , debuted its subscription, e-commerce service for underwear and other basics. the digital studio/accelerator headed by former MySpace CEO Mike Jones. The firm is one of the companies which has recently emerged from Science, Inc., Why underwear?

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Launchpad LA – 10 Startup Companies to Watch

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Commission Junction, MySpace, TicketMaster and many more. They have developed a cloud-based platform for merchants to publish to multiple distribution networks, including social, mobile and email. On average the platform is generating 30+% increase in conversions and 15% decrease in cost per lead.

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