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Now, he ‘outsources’ his investments through John Frankel of Frankel Asset Management. Instead, they tried to use their search position to offer a portal like Excite and Yahoo! After AltaVista, Mike spent a year doing business development for USA Networks ( now IAC – Interactive Corp ). were doing.

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Bambi Francisco is founder and CEO of Vator.tv, a leading platform for entrepreneurs and innovators to broadcast and communicate with industry professionals, and VatorNews, a video business network. where her clients included global leaders in the outsourcing and telecom sectors and a number of prominent non-profits. gigaom.com. .

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sold to Zynga Game Networks, Inc.). Otis Chandler built Goodreads in 2006 because he believed in social networking and wanted to see what his friends were reading. the world’s largest celeb endorsement network). Sizhao “Zao” Yang is currently the COO/co-founder a t BetterWorks , Inc., The site has since grown to nearly 7.5