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The eCommerce Game Goes to Austin

Tech Zulu Event

WordPress, by way of $15M via North Bridge Growth Equity in WPEngine. Such cultures, those industries, are what drives investment, talent, and success to those locations, as the entire ecosystem is designed to foster growth therein that very culture. Offline engagement platform EyeQ. Though, I’m glad that I did.

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Interview with Andy Steuer, Punchcard

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While I was there, I was product manager leading efforts to include third party content into the platform. It was a portal, and partnered with ISPs so that those ISPs could generate ad revenue, and create stick entertainment for customers. I then moved on to Infoseek, which at the time was just a search engine. We sold that to IAC.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Judges Include Mike Jones, CallFire, Idealab, Tech Coast Angels, Coloft

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Mike has over 18 years of business development, marketing and management experience in businesses ranging from early stage start-ups to private equity and from mid-stage business to large turn-around operations. and has led business analysis & user interface design projects for the U.S. Navy, Pfizer, & Unisys Corp.

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Spotlight: LA Tech SuperDemo Announced! | Mike Jones Former Myspace CEO

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This included stabilizing a historically negative traffic and user trend, reducing the operational cost of the business by nearly 90 percent and pivoting the product from its legacy as a social network to a social entertainment destination. To inspire and facilitate personal and cultural growth. To explore how new technologies impact society.

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AllSay: Using Mobile Apps To Engage Users With Decisions, with Geoff Campbell

socalTECH

Through their professional services, I ended up investing in a private equity firm called iFormation, which was a three way joint venture between Boston Consulting Group, Goldman Sachs, and General Atlantic Partners. In our initial testing in LA, funny enough, people do care more about things like sports and entertainment.

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myLINGO | Connecting Non-English Speakers with the Movies

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It was great to relive a moment when I was in my dorm room at Harvard and watching Toy Story 3 on my laptop and seeing something that we built with no cash, just sweat equity. Entertainment. myLINGO is designed to bring new users into the movie viewing experience. I wouldn’t have asked people to work for us on sweat equity.

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Twiistup 007: Final Showoff's Additional Speakers and TZ Discount

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Founder and CEO of Mandalay Entertainment, the visionary multimedia venture spanning movies, TV, sports, and new media, Peter Guber is among the most successful executives in the entertainment and communications industries. Essayist, programmer, and programming language designer. Twiistup 007 Speaker List: Peter Guber.