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MAY 22, 2019

For our interview this morning, we talked with David Wood , the Founder and CEO of Eventene (www.eventene.com), an early stage startup, bootstrapped startup developing event management software. David--a veteran of Microsoft, having been the lead developer of Microsoft Exchange--tells us why he started his company.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2009

This morning, Los Angeles-based Lottay (www.lottay.com) launched its online gifting site, announced its funding by DFJ Frontier, and also the appointment of former Evite GM Harry Lin as CEO. How did Lottay start, and tell us about your Series A? Elliott came up wit the idea in 2008, seeing the trends I just explained to you.

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MARCH 25, 2016

Many startup businesses – tech or otherwise – fail. Trying outrageous new things or even trying mundane things but in new ways but with extreme quality & innovation is what fuels the tech startup industry. But today I want to give you advice on how to decrease your odds of failure in a startup.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 14, 2016

You can think of us as a super, high-end Evite, for the B2B, corporate space. How did you start the company? Ryan Costello: I started out as an event producer in Washington DC. So how did you end up in Santa Monica? So how did you end up in Santa Monica? That invitation was hard coded for you.

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AUGUST 10, 2011

Among other news this week, Los Angeles-based Cocodot , the online invitations site started by former MySpace exec Shawn Gold, opened up a free tier to its invitations service, allowing users to now send out up to 1,000 online cards and invitations to others.

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MARCH 11, 2016

Scott Chisolm: Classy started as a fundraising application for nonprofit organization. How did you start the company? Scott Chisolm: Actually, the organization started as a charitable pub crawl, for the cancer society here in San Diego. What was your background before you started the company? What is Classy?

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JUNE 1, 2009

For this morning's interview, we caught up with Eden Jarrin, the President of Los Angeles-based eDivvy (www.edivvy.com). Eden told us a bit about the firm, how people are using it, as well as her own experience and what she learned from her prior startup, BeJane. Let's start with eDivvy. How did you end up here?

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