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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. Aigerim Duiseneyeva: We met with Idealab through a USC Marshall competition. We verify email addresses, college and work email addresses, and required a referral from someone in the community. How did you end up working with Idealab?

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Interview with Nick Desai, Global Fitness Media

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You come to our site, take a match quiz--a lot like eHarmony--to find the right trainer. A plan alone is not all that valuable if you won't follow them, so what we give are also the tools--via iPhone, the web, SMS, email, Android, Blackberry--to log you actually did do. The plans are really usable, and we don't just stop with a plan.

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Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles

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The city has, however, quietly been home to some of the most successful online companies to date, including CitySearch (sold to Ticketmaster for $260 million in 1998), Overture (acquired by Yahoo for $2 billion in 2003), eHarmony and LowerMyBills (bought by Experian for $330 million in 2005). What is happening in L.A.