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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. But I never gave up. The opportunity came up to invest in this one and I pounced. Well, we started out a free text messaging platform.

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Interview with Scott Lahman, GOGII

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Scott Lahman is co-founder of Los Angeles-based GOGII (www.gogii.com), the developer of group text messaging application textPlus. We spoke with Scott about GOGII and textPlus, the shifting mobile market, and also what lessons he's applied to his new startup. What's the story behind GOGII?

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Explaining FNAC: Feature, Not a Company

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A few months ago I did a short interview with Dan Frommer who was then at Business Insider (and has since started SplatF , which is well written and worth your reading). I talked in specifics about a bunch of my investments including Factual , MongoLab , Maker Studios and Gogii (maker of TextPlus ). It’s about 10 minutes long.

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Interview with Matthew Graczyk, Zubican

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Matthew spoke to us to give us a better idea of what the company offers and why it was started. Personally, I've been an entrepreneur for 15 years, running companies with P and L responsibility for divisions, and watched with frustration as the Internet has grown up around us. It's a full-blown, B2B social network.

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