Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Saad Khan, Partner, CMEA Capital (Part 9)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Saad: We’ve actually invested in a company that’s in the social recruiting space, and we did it three years ago. The company is  Jobvite. In the case of Jobvite, the insight we had was look, this build-out of the social graph – and Facebook and LinkedIn and

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Saad Khan, Partner, CMEA Capital (Part 8)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Saad: LiveOps also run a managed service where they have more than 20,000 agents who aren’t employees of the company [but] are contractors who are executing sales and customer support and other things for customers all over the world. What’s interesting about that model and what really

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Deal Radar 2008: Pandora

Pandora Media, based in Oakland, California, is an Internet radio web site. Founded by Tim Westergren in 2000, it was formerly known as Savage Beast Technologies. Pandora uses the Music Genome Project, a collection of songs that have been analyzed by trained musicians.