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Catching Up With Joanne Bradford, Demand Media

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But, they could not write, and did not know what to write from the travel perspective. Every one of those writers has a byline and a bio, and are paid twice a week at a pretty decent rate for that writing or assignment. For Legalzoom, it's a very different model. Can you explain that process? Can you explain that process?

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Interview with Jeff Zwelling, Convertro

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Locally, those are companies like LegalZoom, GameFly, TrueCar, and ShoeDazzle. One of the venture capitalists we had met along the way, hearing that we had sold YLighting, asked us what we were doing now, and because they liked the software so much told us to count him in, he'd write a check right now, and that's what we did.

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

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That’s convenience when your VC is hoping to write the next $20 million check. While nobody has yet “cracked the code&# on production quality video over the Internet (YouTube won UGC video), there is a lot of innovation happening in LA from places like Eqal, Deca.TV, ThisWeekIn, Machinima & Maker Studios.