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Interview with Jonathan Simkin, SwoopThat

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Every price comparison out there, whether that's Google Products, Bizrate, or other sites, can find books, but you can only do it one at a time. How did you come up with the web site? We spoke with Jonathan about the advantages of SwoopThat over existing sites. What's SwoopThat? You've got to find each one, and research them online.

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If You Don’t Define Your Personal Brand the Market Will

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I was graduated with a double degree in economics & political science from UCSD in 1991. It was the midst of a recession and I was happy to have any job at all let alone what was considered one of the more prestigious business jobs at the time graduating from UCSD. That was fine with me – the market is the market.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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Over the past decade we’ve had high-profile exits at many companies that pioneered monetization techniques now used across the web including Commission Junction, Value Click, ShopZilla, Price Grabber, LowerMyBills and a newer breed including Invoca, Burstly, Shift, Rubicon Project, Gravity, Convertro, Retention Science and so forth.