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Fair Boosts Executive Team

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In a hint towards Fair's intentions, the company pointed out that Pierantoni also had served as VP of Finance at Cornerstone OnDemand (through its IPO), Chief Accounting Officer of Ticketmaster Entertainment, and also served at Paramount Pictures. READ MORE>>.

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MetaCloud Raises $10M For Private Cloud Service

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Lynch and Curry are technology veterans, having managed cloud deployments for Yahoo and Ticketmaster. metacloud venture capital cloud computing private openstack rackspace deployment management software' The companies said the funding will go towards growth and global expansion of its services. READ MORE>>.

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eHarmony's Waldorf Joins Accel Partners

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Greg Waldorf , the former CEO of Pasadena-based eHarmony , is joining venture capital firm Accel Partners as CEO-in-Residence, the firm said Monday evening. Waldorf left eHarmony on January 19th, as the firm has been rumored to be in process of an IPO.

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Launchpad LA – 10 Startup Companies to Watch

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We held a 90-minute demo session where 150 of LA’s VC’s and senior technology executives watched the LPLA V2 group present in small groups of 12-15 each. Commission Junction, MySpace, TicketMaster and many more. Walk into any Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Southern California and you can’t miss their digital screens.

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Interview with Michael Barton, Startup Exchange

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I meet these founders one-on-one, and I'm introduced to them through our own personal network -- Mike Paolucci, John Waller, and myself have been in the startup game on and off, in New York and Southern California for a lot of years between us. We merged with Ticketmaster, took it public before selling it to IAC.

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Why Hopscotch Is Behind Your Favorite Mobile Sports App, with Laurence Sotsky

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We also do lots of things in-venue, including mobile ticketing, integrating with Ticketmaster, Comcast, and many other ticketing providers. Laurence Sotsky: I've been working in the software-as-a-service space for some time, in medium-sized, venture capital backed companies. How did you get into this?

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Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles

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The city has, however, quietly been home to some of the most successful online companies to date, including CitySearch (sold to Ticketmaster for $260 million in 1998), Overture (acquired by Yahoo for $2 billion in 2003), eHarmony and LowerMyBills (bought by Experian for $330 million in 2005). And what happened in L.A.