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Dun & Bradstreet Partners With Cedric the Entertainer

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D&B Credibility is a new, privately funded firm backed by Great Hill Partners, and run by repeat entrepreneur Stibel, who has been involved in such companies as Edgecast, Autobytel, The Search Agency, Web.com, and United Online. Cedric the Entertainer's WHO CED? hat line debuted last night. READ MORE>>.

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Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Partners With Cedric the Entertainer

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D&B Credibility is a new, privately funded firm backed by Great Hill Partners, and run by repeat entrepreneur Stibel, who has been involved in such companies as Edgecast, Autobytel, The Search Agency, Web.com, and United Online. Cedric the Entertainer's WHO CED? hat line debuted last night. READ MORE>>.

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Does a VCs Culture Really Matter? The Upfront Story

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I’m often asked about the differences between being at a VC and being an entrepreneur and whether I prefer one or the other. When you’re on Fund I or Fund II it is often a founding team that all started together, knew each other before and went through the trenches together to get a fund raised. Authenticity.

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Catching Up With Jeffrey Stibel of D&B Credibility

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Jeffrey Stibel has been quietly building a technology powerhouse in Malibu, leveraging the D&B brand at D&B Credibility Corp. The firm is backed by more than $100M in funding from private equity firm Great Hill Partners. We now have six offices, and over a hundred employees in Malibu alone. I have one criteria.

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Interview with Jonathan Kohn, Fitspot

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How are you backed and funded? From the customer standpoint, they can be up in Malibu for the weekend, and they can get a trainer to come to them, they don't have to necessarily disrupt their routine. The idea is that the program information and analytics are all stored in the app itself, so that they can track their progress.

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Tech and Entertainment Have a Home in Silicon Beach

Tech Zulu Event

Malibu and Beverly Hills have long been hot neighborhoods for entertainment execs. As employees and entrepreneurs put down roots close to where they work, more venture capital funds flow in, more start-ups launch, and more of them go public or are sold. percent higher than those of last year.

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Interview with Aaron Hirschorn, DogVacay.com

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If you need a 12 acre ranch in Malibu for your Great Dane, with an animal trainer on staff, that's $75.00. I come from a background where I have a solid understanding of what makes for a good business model, and I've seen entrepreneurs who have had success and been able to execute.