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TechZulu Presents 2012 Startup Forecast | Featuring Science, Tech Coast Angels, Amplify, StartEngine, upStart.LA

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A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded, advised, invested and sold numerous businesses, including application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media, Movoxx, PeopleMedia, Brizzly and Myspace. His passion has always been working with startups.

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Interview with Ian Swanson, Sometrics

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I worked at Userplane, building social applications for sites like MySpace. Looking at MySpace and Facebook, their own internal ad sales teams might get a lower CPM, but we find that games and applications sitting in canvas pages are actually getting slightly higher click through rates. We'll do a rev share with those platforms.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Judges Include Mike Jones, CallFire, Idealab, Tech Coast Angels, Coloft

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A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded and sold numerous businesses, including agency PBJ Digital, application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media and Myspace. Mike continues to be actively involved with early-stage start-ups as an investor, advisor and board member.

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Interview with Sometrics, Ian Swanson

socalTECH

I worked at Userplane, building social applications for sites like MySpace. Looking at MySpace and Facebook, their own internal ad sales teams might get a lower CPM, but we find that games and applications sitting in canvas pages are actually getting slightly higher click through rates. We'll do a rev share with those platforms.