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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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Gogii Raises $8.2M

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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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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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textPlus Adds Free Numbers In Canada

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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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When the Good Guys in Venture Change Roles

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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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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map

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Tech startup accelerators dot the landscape, feeding investments into the waiting arms of the nation’s most intelligent and driven entrepreneurs. Founder and CEO since starting the company back in 1999, Miller has led Cornerstone through 11 years of consecutive growth. 27 on the list of Most Valuable Startups. I’d say yes.

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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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