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Love Lab Looks To Add Trust To Online Dating Apps

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The trust levels range from simple things like email and social network verification, to a full criminal background check. The company said its advisors include Scott Eagle, the former CEO of eHarmony.com, as well as Kraft, who was the founding CEO at Pandora, among other ventures. READ MORE>>.

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Startup CTO Speaking

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Most notably, he was the original CTO for eHarmony for its first four years making him partly responsible for more than 4% of the marriages every year. He's also led significant technology projects for a very impressive list of companies including Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, HP, Sun, and the list goes on.

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The Challenges (& Opportunities) of Starting a Tech Company in LA

Jason Nazar

I recently hosted a panel at the Twiistup Conference about LA tech companies. I have some pretty specific thoughts on the differences between companies in the two cities, as I wrote about in my previous post A Tale of Two Tech Cities. Challenge #1 – Tech Companies are Not Typically Started by Technologists.

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Do you Suffer from the Urgency Addiction? It’s More Common Than you Think

Both Sides of the Table

Yet in LA we have hugely successful entrepreneurs who have built big companies like Overture, CitySearch, MySpace, TicketMaster.com, LowerMyBills, Commission Junction, eHarmony and on and on. We have amazing large companies that are an important part of the future of the Internet such as Disney, Warner, Fox, Universal, etc.

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Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles

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RSS ); Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles By: Laura Rich February 26, 2010 It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. And as a result we have bred a culture of companies that have been quite innovative on making money. company called Applied Semantics.

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Where LinkedIn Works for Me

SoCal CTO

Sometimes, Ill use LinkedIn to contact my network, but mostly I still just go to their profile and email them. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony. When I was looking for speakers for an event last fall on Web 2.0 , LinkedIn was a great way to reach out. Karrer taught Computer Science for eleven years.

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Interview with Aigerim Duiseneyeva and Shana Zheng, TripTrotting

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One of our advisors is Galen Buckwalter, the former Chief Scientist at eHarmony. What's the story on how the company came about? He decided to invest in us in January of last year, and one of the first New Venture companies. We've developed an algorithm to match other people who are like-minded with you.

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