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How Gigmor Is Looking To Connect Musicians With Gigs, with David Baird

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We're pretty much in every major market, particularly in music strong communities, like Los Angeles, New york, Nashville, and Toronto. David Baird: We're primarily in North America, in the US and Canada, though we have users in 30 countries in total. The bulk of our users are in the U.S. and Canada. How does this work as a business?

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Interview with Adi Jaffe, All About Addiction

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To understand how one local company is making that transition, we talked with Los Angeles-based All About Addiction (www.allaboutaddiction.com), a company that grew out of Adi Jaffe's work at UCLA as a trained psychologist. Lots of that comes into play within academia, which normal entrepreneurs don't have to deal with.

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Interview with Clark Benson, Ranker

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Clark Benson: I'm a serial entrepreneur, and have had one prior Internet exit. Although I've been in Los Angeles, my last company was actually based in Chicago. We had some great offshore coders as part of the engineering team. What's the story behind Ranker? It actually closed on New Year's Day, 2007.

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The Power of “In Person” – Why Distributed Teams are Less Effective

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This is a topic that comes up often in Los Angeles because many CEOs are tempted to hire their tech teams in the Bay Area. For me one of the tell tale signs of a real entrepreneur is that they know how to network well enough to find technical talent to join them. What about offshoring? I have another exception.