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Former MySpace Exec’s Lifestyle Startup Cocodot Gets Funding

Jun 16, 2009 4:37 PM

Former MySpace head of marketing (back from a different era, when MySpace ruled the roost) Shawn Gold has formed a new startup called Cocodot, and has raised a million dollars in funding. The seed investors in the Los Angeles-based venture include Anthem Venture Partners, The Mail Room Fund, and other…

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Posted In: , anthem venture partners, cocodot, shawn gold, the mail room fund

EconSM Video: Getting Real: Grown-Up Start Ups

May 10, 2008 7:05 PM

In our second video from EconSM 2008, Social Approach’s CEO Shawn Gold moderated Getting Real: Grown-Up Start Ups with Dalton Caldwell, imeem’s founder and CEO, Seth Goldstein, SocialMedia Networks’ co-founder and CEO, Keith Richman Break.com’s co-founder and CEO, and Toni Schneider, Automattic’s CEO. In this panel covering the topic of…

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Posted In: Events, ContentNext Events, EconSM, dalton caldwell, keith richman, seth goldstein, shawn gold, toni schneider

@ EconSM: Grown-Up Start-Ups: Profitability Is A Choice; Take Time To Suck

Apr 29, 2008 1:27 PM

Shawn Gold, moderator for this session on scaling social media start-ups in to larger enterprises, kicked off with a challenge: “Hands up if your profitable”. Palms went up from half the panel - Wordpress maker Automattic’s CEO Toni Schneider and SocialMedia Networks CEO Seth Goldstein. “Nice!,” said Gold. But how…

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Posted In: , dalton caldwell, keith richman, seth goldstein, shawn gold, toni schneider

Industry Moves
MySpace SVP of Marketing & Content Shawn Gold Leaving

Oct 24, 2007 4:33 PM

Shawn Gold, the SVP of Marketing and Content Development at MySpace, is leaving, paidContent.org has learned, and Gold has confirmed it to us. Not sure where he is going, and he still has three weeks left at MySpace, but he recently registered SocialApproach.com, so that might give you a hint.…

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Posted In: Industry Moves, Companies, News Corp., Fox, Fox Interactive Media, shawn gold

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