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And we wanted a head of global marketing. I told Ethan on the spot that I wanted to be the lead investor in his new company. I wanted them to have a market lead before others could try and build what Ethan was working on. I was preparing to move back to the US from London after 11 years abroad.

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What is their market traction? It is such a small community that it is hard to raise money by stealth. If you have a “lead&# investor agreed then the price is already set and you don’t have to worry about price. Once you’ve asked it’s pretty tough for investors to want to disregard that advice.

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Mari is now building a new venture in human-machine interaction within the Samsung accelerator, currently in stealth mode. Her work included heading Nokia’s location-based services business and app portfolio for emerging markets, which she built from a back-of-a-napkin idea to a 100-person organization with over 10 million users.

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