socalTECH

APRIL 25, 2011

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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socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2009

Marina del Rey-based Gogii , a developer of text messaging applications, said Thursday that it has raised $8.2M Gogii is the latest startup of Scott Lahman, Austin Murray, and Zack Norman, all previously at JAMDAT Mobile. Gogii's initial funding came from Kleiner Perkins' iPhone investment fund, iFund. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 10, 2011

Los Angeles-based GOGII , the text messaging app developer behind textPlus , said Tuesday that it has started offering up free phone numbers for texting in Canada. GOGII is venture backed by Matrix Partners, GRP Partners, and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers iFund. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

I talked to one startup CEO who told me, “you have young engineers who want to make $200,000 or more to work for me. It’s hard to get people to take a risk at a startup or for a reasonable salary with all this competition. And many of the ones that do want to do startups are plotting their one YCombinator company.

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AUGUST 22, 2011

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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JUNE 11, 2015

Gogii [the original company name] was an early leader in the free text messaging space and we had tens of millions of downloads of our product. We toughed it out together with other board members and encouraged the company to rebuild the team and the product from ground up. He’s with you in good times & bad. Conclusions?

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NOVEMBER 12, 2008

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. What's the idea behind Zubican? COM, and Vivendi Universal.

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