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Why I Invested in Gogii (textPlus) – My First Ever Later Stage Deal

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I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. I only recently invested and I only got here through persistence. The opportunity came up to invest in this one and I pounced.

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Explaining FNAC: Feature, Not a Company

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I talked in specifics about a bunch of my investments including Factual , MongoLab , Maker Studios and Gogii (maker of TextPlus ). I have always been equally impressed with Brew PR who represented them and would hire them for any company in which I had invested. It’s about 10 minutes long. Actually, I never said that.

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

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When you’re one fund and have $600 million to invest it’s easier to take that kind of risk. LA generally doesn’t have an appetite for this kind of ‘swing-for-the-fences’ investment at early stages – and neither does your town. Hautelook, Gogii, Magento. Brett Brewer has AdKnowledge.

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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map

SoCal Delicious

Tech startup accelerators dot the landscape, feeding investments into the waiting arms of the nation’s most intelligent and driven entrepreneurs. is a good monthly investment? In total, Demand Media owns 20 media networks in the US alone and is one of the best reasons why Paul Graham believes Hollywood is dead.

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Interview with Matthew Graczyk, Zubican

socalTECH

It's a full-blown, B2B social network. I went into my network--and I have pretty extensive experience in the internet space, with Digital Evolution and with U.S. He's now at Gogii, which has received investment from Kleiner. It's a problem for ad networks. It's a double viral loop. How are you funded and backed?

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