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Interview with Jonathan Lehmann and James Chung, KarmaGoat

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Jonathan Lehmann: I was awarded the Larry Wolfen Entrepreneurial Spirit Award at UCLA, after getting amazing coaching from Matt Ridenour in our business plan development class. I developed the idea over the summer, articulated the vision, drew out the site, and then teamed up with other students at UCLA and started developing KarmaGoat.

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Interview with Anne Walls and John Singleton, WordHustler

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In their case, people write their scripts on a web site, and when they're done, they can submit them to contests with a single click. If you're doing freelance writing, have a story you're trying to sell, there's a whole process of finding out where you're doing well, not doing well, and what responses you have received.

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

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And of course we have great public companies that have spanned content & communications like J2 Global whose market cap as of this writing is a cool $2.5 As a result we have a large number of locally employed engineers with video experience that will fuel the next boom of the Internet (Americans watch 5.3