We're brought experts from the field--Colleen Sabatino is our Chief Content Officer, and is one of the more respected career center executives in America, and Travlin McCormick came from Slingshot Labs to be our CTO, and is used to speed and has taken various types of businesses and fed them to MySpace--but I've never considered the industry an issue. One of the more successful serial entrepreneurs here in Southern California has been Robin D. Richards , who most recently sold The NTI Group to Blackboard, and previously also was CEO of Vivendi Universal Net USA, the founding

MySpace founders Chris DeWolfe, Colin Digiaro, and Aber Whitcomb are taking the reins at a casual and social gaming venture called MindJolt, which announced its funding Wednesday. The new firm will be headed by former MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe. Digiaro was former Head of Monetization and a co-founder at SlingShot Labs, and Whitcomb was formerly co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at MySpace. The new firm, based out of San Francisco, is being funded by Austin Ventures. The three said they acquired MindJolt, a developer of games for Facebook and other social networking

And thats not even counting MySpace, which Rupert Murdoch famously paid $580 million for in 2005. We have all the people who came out of eHarmony; who came from MySpace and Overture and PriceGrabber and Lastminute.com and Shopzilla and CitySearch and all these places. To underscore the point about entrepreneurs coming out of LA-based companies, there is a growing diaspora of talented former MySpace/Intermix executives who have gone on to found or build other companies all over RSS ); Why You Should Start a Company in...