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How Rolebot Wants To Eliminate The Resume, With Shane Bernstein

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That's where Los Angeles-based Rolebot (www.rolebot.net) comes in. The team is myself and my co-founder, Alex Mostafi, our CTO, and we also have a sales director and director of engineering up north in San Francisco. We've just started to go out to look for a seed funding round. Are people using the product now?

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Interview with Michael Wong, MergeLocal

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That's what Los Angeles-based MergeLocal (www.mergelocal.com) is looking to find out, by offering up points which can be converted to real cash, when users check into local businesses. Michael Wong: I was previously CTO of an agency called Breakthrough Ads. Can you talk about how your company is funded?

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 5.0 – I’m just going to chill out for a bit… (OK, for a month…)

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As CTO, it was my job to solve this problem. Sequoia has a tremendous reputation, but it was also important to us to have a local (Los Angeles) VC as well. Additionally, we did not fully appreciate or understand the different nuances in the work culture between Los Angeles and Silicon Valley.

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