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Startup CTO Speaking

SoCal CTO

Most notably, he was the original CTO for eHarmony for its first four years making him partly responsible for more than 4% of the marriages every year. Its common for startups to think about services like hosting/computing, storage, analytics, maps, email delivery and tracking, and eCommerce.

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Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles

SoCal Delicious

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. then in Silicon Valley.

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Interview with Nick Desai, Global Fitness Media

socalTECH

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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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

We had email, instant messaging, group calendars, discussion boards, etc. They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. But AOL brought online services, email, chat and discussion boards to the masses and thus educated a generation that paved the way for others.