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APRIL 25, 2011

Scott Lahman is co-founder of Los Angeles-based GOGII (www.gogii.com), the developer of group text messaging application textPlus. We spoke with Scott about GOGII and textPlus, the shifting mobile market, and also what lessons he's applied to his new startup. What's the story behind GOGII?

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JUNE 11, 2015

Gogii [the original company name] was an early leader in the free text messaging space and we had tens of millions of downloads of our product. Of course Kleiner has had a difficult couple of years. I guess it was time for Matt to get and chart a course at a smaller firm where he could build Phase 2 of his career and I respect that.

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Venture Capital Gogii Course Activity 150

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AUGUST 22, 2011

I talked in specifics about a bunch of my investments including Factual , MongoLab , Maker Studios and Gogii (maker of TextPlus ). But of course tens of thousands of people saw the headline while probably 10% of them or less watched the video. We spoke about my interest in cloud computing, digital media and mobile.

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Company Companies Gogii Cloud Computing 295

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

If you are talented, of course, you can get funded in any region with enough venture capital and obviously in markets outside of the Valley it is easier to get noticed and get access. In New York you have access to fashion, media, art and of course, financial services. And of course you have Hollywood.

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