Posts Tagged ‘Angel Investors’

This Week’s TWiST

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
Kamran Pourzanjani

Jason’s guest this week will be Kamran Pourzanjani, co-founder and CEO of Pricegrabber – also, week’s episode will be happening at a special time, Thursday @ 3pm (PST).  Kamran founded PriceGrabber back in 1999 and built it into one of the biggest comparison shopping sites on the web before selling it to Experian in 2005 for almost $500 million.  Since selling PriceGrabber, Kamran has been a fixture in the LA tech scene as both an angel investor and advisor to startups.  His newest project is Bestcovery, an expert rating and reviews site.

We’ll also have a special scheduled episode next week (Tuesday @ 2pm) thanks to the Thanksgiving holiday.  Jason’s guest then will be Jim Lanzone, CEO of Clicker.

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TWiST #27 with Matt Coffin

Sunday, November 15th, 2009
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Our second episode this week (making up for the missed one last week), Jason is joined by Matt Coffin, angel investor and founder of LowerMyBills.com. Matt founded LowerMyBills back in 1999 (full details about his inspiration come during the first part of his interview) and later sold it to Experian for over $300M. Since then he’s become an angel investor and advisor to startups around the world (including Mahalo).

Check out the full episode to find out about his management style, the type of companies he really wants to invest in, and how to get funding with your next project.

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