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Streamlining The Sports Recruiting Process with FieldLevel

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Brenton Sullivan: What we are is a private social network and platform for coaches to connect with each other, to exchange information on athletes. We worked night and weekends, fleshed out the concept, and in July and August of 2008 we launched the product, took on some angel funding, and started the process.

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Making the Internet Smarter at Helping Us

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We all now visit UGC sites to learn about products & services before we use them. I’ve been thinking a lot about this over the past two years and bending the ears of any entrepreneur who will humor me to hear what I think the solution needs to look like. Our social networks are filled with our friends, sure.

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Interview with Fouad ElNaggar, Redpoint Ventures

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I'm down here probably three or four days a week on average, and we're trying to be active, and pick off what we think are going to be the best deals here, from Santa Barbara down to San Diego. It's difficult to add value to a portfolio company or entrepreneur. What areas you personally are looking at right now? That's part one.

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TechZulu Presents: The Annual Startup Forecast

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Brock Pierce is a 10x entrepreneur best known for pioneering the market for digital currency. He is a media and digital media entrepreneur, senior executive, negotiator and dealmaker with an unbroken track record of success in start-up and emerging growth companies, as well as major and independent media companies. On Demand).

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

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A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded and sold numerous businesses, including agency PBJ Digital, application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media and Myspace. Sangster is a serial entrepreneur and M&A executive with experience both founding and acquiring businesses.