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The entrepreneur who became a Lyft driver to conduct customer research

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Grigori Mikayelyan was a failed and an aspiring entrepreneur; furnished with a new idea – and determined to make a success of it – he became a Lyft driver to conduct customer research with his passengers. Mikayelyan was determined to test the idea properly before investing “a penny” in it.

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Announcing The Socaltech 50: Southern California's Up-and-Comers

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Amanda MacNaughton , PromoJam (Glendale, marketing software). Internap , PricewaterhouseCoopers , Demand Media , Stubbs, Alderton & Markiles LLP , Oracle , Cresa Partners , UK Trade & Investment , PIXT , and many others. event socaltech50 awards entrepreneur entrepreneurship feature dfr2013'

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Stop, Breathe, and Think: Using Your Smartphone To Tackle Your Emotional Health

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I was an investment banker, and happened to meet a Tibetin Buddhist Lama on how to meditate. At the time, there happened to have been a lot of gang violence where I lived in Glendale. How did you start the company? Jamie Price: The app originated when I was at a nonprofit back in 2000.

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