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Chris Hollod On Investing With Ashton Kutcher, Guy Oseary, and Ron Burkle

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We know what we're good at, which is mostly consumer facing technology. We're not going to be investing in a B2B or analytical company. If the elevator pitch is over my head, or just muddled with jargon, maybe this will be a profitable company, and maybe a great business, but it's not the billion dollar business we're looking for.

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Interview with Mike Macadaan, Urbandig

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One of Urbandig's co-founders, Mike Macadaan -- the former VP of User Experience at MySpace, and creator of the technology conference Twiistup--sat down to talk to us about the company. He's fairly well known, he funded another company called Punchd, which recently sold to Google. What's the idea behind Urbandig?

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