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AUGUST 6, 2012

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. They couldn't find enough people to write the content they needed, at the quality they need.

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MARCH 12, 2013

What is it about the content delivery network market which has enabled Santa Monica-based EdgeCast to go from startup to over $100M in revenues in only a few, short years? We serve up four to five percent of the global Internet on our network. For those who don't know about EdgeCast, CDN services, who/what kind of clients you serve?

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MARCH 16, 2017

We are going to write checks of between $100,000 and $500,000, and we are going to invest in what we are calling first institutional capital. That has a really large impact on early stage companies, who typically don't have a deep network of relationships, and the ability to get to those type of people.

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MAY 14, 2013

For example, if more people search for socaltech each month, and more users are liking your site, that''s an easy way for Google to see that a site has value. We work with Google to help monetize our traffic, and we''re also working with a variety of other networks. I think search engines will take note. Is this all online ads?

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OCTOBER 16, 2008

Los Angeles-based You2Gov, an online social networking startup focused on politics, said this week that it has added new technology to allow its users to directly contact members of Congress. The firm's site now allows users to email, write, or make calls via Skype and Jaxtr to their political representatives. READ MORE>>

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OCTOBER 4, 2012

We teach people how to make web series and video for the web, and specifically for sites like YouTube, and independent networks like Flip and Dailymotion. An example is Melissa Rundle, who was been writing for the industry doing FunnyOrDie type comedies. I also worked with content partnership with Flip Networks. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 21, 2009

According to Demand Media, it now has more than 6,000 freelancers creating content for the company's network of sites via its Demand Studios arm. Demand uses freelancers to write how-to articles, produce videos, and other content to attract Internet traffic to its web sites. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Los Angeles-based FreedomSpeaks.com an online web site focused on political social networking, said Tuesday that it has launched a new application programming interface (API) targeted at helping developers tap into information about publicly elected officials. The firm said its API provides access to over 10,000 public official profiles.

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JANUARY 28, 2009

According to the site, in the last six months, it has seen a 84% increase in searches for articles on finding health insurance after losing a job, networking, saving money on utilities, and cutting expenses.

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JANUARY 6, 2009

James Tamplin, the site's co-founder, said that the new feature has been used by its beta users to write a collaborative novel, share cooking tips, discuss political events, and to transport a statue to Easter island. Tags: social sendmehome networking. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

We can also write checks as large as $35M out of the Omega Fund. We're helping the entrepreneur, leveraging our network, introducing them to people, and helping them think about new products. It's difficult to add value to a portfolio company or entrepreneur. What areas you personally are looking at right now? That's part one.

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OCTOBER 10, 2012

Neal Roche: I spent twenty years in the Internet networking business, working on internal hardware for test and measurement. I left there in 2010, and starting looking at the electric vehicle market, what Southern California Edison was planning, saw these charging networks, and how all of this was planned to be an intelligence network.

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OCTOBER 11, 2016

This year, we are partnered with the Home Shopping Network, HSN, so that our companies not only get Hatched and an investment, they get PR on the Home Shopping Network as well. Anyone can write a check, but not everyone can provide intellectual capital. As an investor, there is financial capital and intellectual capital.

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AUGUST 27, 2014

We''ve also built a data driven platform, that allows us to drive millions of unique visitors to our network of sites every month, covering the banking, credit, and travel and vertical markets. We started looking at the landscape, and as I was getting my MBA at the time, ended up writing the business plan for ConsumerTrack.

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OCTOBER 11, 2018

It also allows us to do more late stage seed funding, and early A round, and enables us to set deal terms, board seats, and get a lot more sureness around the amount of money and the check we are able to write. Post investment, it helps build companies, because we reach out to our network. We've been in every round of Fair's financing.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Peter Marx: I started in the technology industry by writing software for imaging microscopes--looking at things like cell populations using early CCD cameras and understanding cell morphology; working on video compression; working on networking stuff and software for early digital telephony like ISDN and on forward.

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JUNE 18, 2009

Our interview today is with Santa Monica-based OneCubicle (www.onecubicle.com), a new startup we ran across recently, which is looking to provide a more professional social networking site for younger people. Gregg Champion: OneCubicle.com is a social business network for people on their first, second, and third jobs.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Vince Bianco: Newsforce is a premium online network, made up exclusively of digital news sites. That's what our network does, in essence, for our clients. Our second product, which we launched, is the premium news network. Vince Bianco: Our network launched in October of last year, and we have been growing ever since.

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MAY 25, 2016

There's also a great network effect happening in the area of industry clouds, and network capitalism, which is not just marketing poof. That network effect is a subtle but has a powerful effect with all this new technology. We can now write $20M, $25M, and $30M checks to existing, breakout companies in our portfolio.

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JUNE 30, 2009

I am someone who likes to interact with my Representatives and Senators, by way of writing letters, emailing, and what not. When I was listening, I made a point to try to do that, but when I did, I found I had to go to twenty sites to find the information I needed--whether that was to write a letter, send an email, or whatever.

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

If I write back, and tell them to stay at the Marriott in Del Mar, we would detect the Marriott Del Mar in your message, whether that's on Facebook Messenger, Snapchat, in a text message, in an email, or whatever, and convert that into a link to one of our merchants who are part of the Wildfire network.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

I had a sales force when I was at SkyPipeline, selling telecom, networking, and broadband wireless products. I learned a hell of a lot, invested my gains, and set up my venture fund, knowing I was going to monetize the network I had created. Ryan Blair: When I first had invested in Visalus, I was at SkyPipeline.

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OCTOBER 10, 2008

James Tamplin: The idea originally was a mobile payment system, but that ran into trouble when we found out that a mobile payment system would have to rely on the cooperation of the credit card networks. Why not just write your phone number or information on an item? They're pretty risk adverse. One, is it's anonymous.

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AUGUST 20, 2018

It was through that experience, that I sat up in my chair when working at Intel Capital, thinking that, this is cool, I've got a pretty big checkbook to write from, and to do deals from, but there are so many more companies I could be investing in that I am not. And, your network in general.

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DECEMBER 2, 2019

An old friend of mine, who had bene part of W3 Design and USWeb, and has been writing machine vision software for a decade called RoboRealm, which has 60,000 users, eventually joined our company, along with our VP of Product, Carl Sutter, who is in Long Beach, and that's how we got here. That was where this company came from.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Baghdasarian was co-founder of Monterey Networks, which was sold to Cisco Systems back in 1999, has been an active angel investor in Southern California. If you've taken a course, and need an application to do chemistry or math analysis, there's a store where you can write, share, sell, or buy those applications.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Will Henshall: Focus@will is the first, ever music service which helps with focus and distraction, while writing, reading, and studying. I had been learning about network audio and online startups. We caught up with Will to learn more about the company and how it hopes its service and music can help people improve their concentration.

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APRIL 14, 2011

We've just added a layer on top of all the social networks particular to finance. You'd have to come up with an idea, gather the truth, write it, produce it, shoot it, edit it, and when you had the product, you had to figure out how to distribute it. It's fun, I guess. Only a dummy would do it again.

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JANUARY 25, 2010

Back at that time, I had people ask my--why would I ever want to read what other people are writing, isn't that what professional authors and journalists are for? The third, and the most powerful motivator, is the idea of a similarity network. For Lunch.com, that's what the similarity network is designed to answer.

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JUNE 8, 2011

It's the biggest portion of our revenues at our company, and our clients include the Buffalo News, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, JDate, Spark network, and many entrepreneurs. It looks like a lot of your execs have background at Active Network? Jimmy Hendricks: Our lead product is a white label, daily deal product.

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APRIL 8, 2014

We''ve also had a pretty wide range of check writing in terms of amount. However, we''ve developed a formula of what, and how we look at deals, and have built out our own advisory network, where we use domain experts to vet deals out.

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MARCH 22, 2012

My first job was as a page at NBC, and after that I went and did a year and a half of writing and production at MSNBC with Keith Olbermann and Chuck Scarborough. What's your background, and how did the company start? Michael Dubin: My background is digital marketing, and a little bit of editorial.

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Dollar Shave Club Startup Pricing Sample 210

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APRIL 29, 2014

We were looking at it, and saw that if we could take all these off-the-shelf sensors, and put it all together, and write some code, and make a user interface, it''s basically done. We''re more like that, where we''re pulling together a network of experts where we need them. It''s assemble the parts and it looks much like a DIY project.

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MAY 11, 2010

We have almost a thousand bloggers who are writing reviews about the products we offer, and we also review them from our own point of view, to help support parents decisions and learning about products in the real world. When raising money, you look to meet with people using your network. How long has the site been around?

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Software Review Commerce Startup Sites 200

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APRIL 25, 2011

Even though write once and run anywhere has been the holy grail, I think it's the false prophet. Those are almost like little social networks built around a topic. If you think that it is easy, however, you'll be disappointed. Back to textPlus, tell us where you are now with the app?

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JUNE 30, 2011

They've proven that with social networking, proven that with apps, proven that with Facebook credits. How fast do you think the market for HTML5 games will develop? Howard Marks: I think Facebook has a tendency to change markets in a significant way. They've proven that in many ways. The Like button is a good example.

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OCTOBER 22, 2008

At the high end, people can write plug-ins. We have a marketplace to share content, and one of our explicit goals is to foster entrepreneurship on the platform and network, allowing people to sell their creations via the marketplace. The network of worlds we have is essentially a place of places. He's been great.

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