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Brian Coryat, ValueClick Founder And Internet Pioneer: Startups Should Wing It

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Brian Coryat, Founder and CEO of Local Market Launch and former Founder and CEO of ValueClick (NASDAQ: VCLK) recently winged his talk at UC Santa Barbara''s Distinguished Lecture Series. Talking To Yahoo''s Jerry Yang. He quickly realized the power of the Internet when he came across a relatively obscure site, called Yahoo!

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Interview with Jason Lehmbeck, Datapop

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The company's founders are previously from Overture and Yahoo! We are ex-Overture and Yahoo! We were at Overture Services here in Pasadena, and ultimately worked at Yahoo. John Zimmerman, my cofounder, created the commercial API for Overture and Yahoo Search. They're a local team out of Santa Barbara.

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

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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. He holds a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, a JD from Southwestern University, and suffers from an addiction to cheeseburgers.

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

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We typically do not ask entrepreneurs to visit our offices in Santa Barbara, but Jeff wanted to meet with Kevin, an investor in our Fund who helped us vet opportunities and occasionally invested alongside of us. billion) and ISS (sold to IBM $1.3 Painful Past - We are all also victims of our past. Billion Dollar Consolation Prize?

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Some Thoughts on Leadership Going into 2016

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In fact, 50% of our investments are in Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. She can anticipate reactions to price increases or product changes by customers and she can sustain competitive challenges because she knows the customer will stick by her. Many tech execs (and VCs) I know have “bunker mentality.”

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