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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

It was also beneficial because I got some good experience with both B2B and B2C business models. This is a novel user interaction that embeds casual entertainment directly into the operating system experience, based on some fairly interesting underlying technology. Who are some of your go to people in Los Angeles?

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29 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

My research was valuable enough for a large corporation that is known for creating a popular operating system to give us about $250K in funding. It was becoming a business model destined to fail. However, as most entrepreneurs will experience, when equity and pay come into play, relationships tend to warp. I was a Ph.D.

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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Mo was graduated from Wharton, worked in investment banking, spent 6 years at IAC (including in an operational role for Connected Ventures which includes College Humor, Busted T’s and Vimeo) before joining Spark Capital in 2008. Launched in 2007 in Los Angeles by Adam Bernhard and Konstantin Glasmacher. TechCrunch article.

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Shark Tank 2012 Holiday Episode Breakdown

Lightspeed Venture Partners

The most interesting company to present was The Coop , a modern, design-focused, indoor-outdoor children’s playspace in Los Angeles. As O’Leary said, this isn’t an equity investment. Banks often have operating covenants for their loans that require the company to be hitting plan, or close to it.

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