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Social Networking Addiction Bears Fruit FAST

Eric Greenspan

I have vanity urls setup at just about every site on the web. Mike will be using a desk at Make It Work to incubate his new company. I was provided with introductions to execs at Myspace, Facebook, Yahoo!, The first to respond was @robinzucker of Yahoo! I’ve jumped on the bandwagon, big time! ’s HQ in Burbank.

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Interview Dan Dato and Bruce Brown, Upstart.LA

socalTECH

which became Softbank Marketing, selling ads for Yahoo before Yahoo had its own salesforce. There are lots of incubators here-- practically every school or municipality has some kind of incubator--but they don't have an accelerator. So I got started in the tech and internet world very early stage.

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Social Networking Addiction Bears Fruit

Eric Greenspan

I have vanity urls setup at just about every site on the web. Mike will be using a desk at Make It Work to incubate his new company. I was provided with introductions to execs at Myspace, Facebook, Yahoo!, The first to respond was @robinzucker of Yahoo! I’ve jumped on the bandwagon, big time! ’s HQ in Burbank.

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Tilofy: Making Sense Of The World Around You Using Location Data

socalTECH

Prior to Tilofy, I had technical positions at Yahoo, Microsoft, and Samsung, ranging from development, to program management, to senior technology person on Samsung''s smart TV platform. Those three organizations have very strong networks inventure capital, entertainment, and academia, and put together the incubator.

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

Both Sides of the Table

Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. Analytics also extend to iPhone and web apps using Facebook Connect. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. -A location based service which incorporates social and gaming elements. Currently has 1.8mm users and adding about 15,000 users/day.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

socalTECH

People we met there were Greg Cohn, who was recently head of yahoo games. It's a casual setupit's not an incubator, it's not an accelerator, and we're not charging anyone for space. We started working on local web design projects, but got sick of that in six months. We have some great mentors now.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Summer Judges Includes BetterWorks, CallFire, Idealab, and Tech Coast Angeles

Tech Zulu Event

He also designed the Farmville iPhone application (top iPhone app), and worked on corporate development deals including Microsoft, Yahoo, Zynga Japan, and Zynga corporate strategy. OrganicStartup incubates and accelerates innovative ventures by providing them with strategic early-stage investment, advisory, and operational assistance.