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Interview with Harry Lin, Lottay

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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. It was because of my Evite experience. I had been GM of Evite for just under two years. You mention the parallels to Evite, what are those?

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Social Discovery – What I Love about @plancast

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In fact, for the research of this post I just noticed that they announced funding today – congrats. Who knows, maybe one of these guys will finally kill off evite. I’m not an investor and though I wouldn’t rule it out in the future I’m not currently looking at the company. I’m loving the product.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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There are a million ways to either research your industries market size and you’re likely to have to do some basic estimations to figure out much of that is addressable to you. But not doing basic research makes no sense. Want to eradicate Evite? How much ad revenue does TripAdvisor make? Market Structure. TripAdvisor?

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

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It combines a lot of the best features from evite, groupme, path, and color but is ultimately a unique solution in the market. Dan previously was a researcher at the National Institutes of Health and at the Brown University Computer Graphics Group and has won a number of Computer Science awards. Lori Deschene – Founder of Tiny Buddha.