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Interview with David Wood, Eventene

socalTECH

David--a veteran of Microsoft, having been the lead developer of Microsoft Exchange--tells us why he started his company. The company is almost three years old. For example, if they're using Signupgenius, or Evite, then we're not trying to convert them. What does Eventene do? How long has the app been available?

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Interview with Harry Lin, Lottay

socalTECH

This morning, Los Angeles-based Lottay (www.lottay.com) launched its online gifting site, announced its funding by DFJ Frontier, and also the appointment of former Evite GM Harry Lin as CEO. We spoke with Harry yesterday about the company. Klaus and Steve thought Andy was a great entrepreneur and it was a good idea, and seeded it.

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Congrats To The Presenting StartupDemo Companies!

Tech Zulu Event

After weeks of StartupDemo submissions we are now ready to announce the participating startup companies for the StartupDemo event being held at Wokano Sept. We took great consideration for every startup company that applied. Congratulations to all the selected startup companies! 22, 2010. Organizing a group of friends is hard!

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Skate Where the Puck is Going

Both Sides of the Table

Anyone who works in the venture business or frankly just lives in Silicon Valley will be used to hearing a buzz word rise up out of nowhere to capture the technology zeitgeist and find its way into every entrepreneur’s product development plan or every aspiring entrepreneur’s pitch deck. That’s too late.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

SoCal Delicious

where entrepreneurs share their stories. 63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Free Corporations For First-Time Entrepreneurs. Right now they’re setting up 500 free corporations for first time entrepreneurs. Here are 62 63 Los Angeles entrepreneurs we can be proud of.

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How Classy Is Helping Nonprofits To Attract and Retain Supporters

socalTECH

We talked with Schott Chisolm , CEO and co-founder of the software company, to hear about how the company came out of all three, and resulted in what is now a widely used software product that charities are helping to reach Millennials and others. How did you start the company? That would make it pretty tough to grow.

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How Event Farm Is Making Events A Part Of Your Sales Funnel

SoCal Tech Calendar

We spoke with co-founder Ryan Costello about Santa Monica-based Event Farm (www.eventfarm.com), on how its software technology is being used to power high end, VIP events for large companies. Ryan Costello: We're a software company. You can think of us as a super, high-end Evite, for the B2B, corporate space.

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