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Justin Yoshimura is an entrepreneur and angel investor. He is currently CEO of CSC Generation, which is enabling consumers to lease or finance any product with a residual value.

Formerly, he was SVP at Merkle (acquired by Dentsu for $2B) via the acquisition of his company 500friends, a provider of SaaS loyalty marketing solutions backed by $12M+ from Crosslink Capital, Intel Capital, Silicon Valley Bank, and YCombinator. He is also an investor in Mobovida (Series A), Hipmunk (acquired by Concur), Bounce Exchange (seed, Series A), Dropoff (seed), First Opinion (seed, former member of the BOD), Firebase (acquired by Google), and Zencoder (acquired by Brightcove).

Prior to 500friends, he dropped out of high school to found two e-commerce marketplace companies, both of which were acquired after reaching $10M+ in revenues.

  1. Stop hunting unicorns (linkedin.com)
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  2. A great product is important, but it's not enough (linkedin.com)
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  3. The Hidden Reason for Exploding Startup Costs (linkedin.com)
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  4. DevOps Ninjas – please help us scale to 1M requests/min (jobscore.com)
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  5. Help us scale our ruby app to 10B requests/month (jobscore.com)
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  6. Help scale our Ruby app – 10x user, 3x revenue growth YOY (jobscore.com)
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  7. C++ Hacker (jobscore.com)
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  8. 50+ of the top 1,000 eTailers pay us for our software – Engineers needed (jobscore.com)
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  9. Our customers pay us $millions/yr to help them compete vs. AMZN (jobscore.com)
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  10. Growth/Press Hacker (jobscore.com)
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  11. Being a hustler (or banker) does not qualify you for "biz dev" (forbes.com)
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  12. Are you a real JavaScript Hacker? (jobscore.com)
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  13. Lead Ruby on Rails Engineer (jobscore.com)
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  14. The best JavaScript developers (Remote is OK) (jobscore.com)
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  15. 96% of developers fail our FizzBuzz test... (jobscore.com)
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  16. JavaScript Hackers (not just jQuery) (jobscore.com)
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  17. CEOs - are you doing the "right" job? (pandodaily.com)
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  18. JavaScript hackers – help retailers compete with Amazon and Walmart (jobscore.com)
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  19. Senior backend hacker at 500friends (jobscore.com)
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  20. Who are the best engineering leaders on HN? (sfbay.craigslist.org)
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  21. Who is the best VP of Engineering in SF? (sfbay.craigslist.org)
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  22. 500friends (YC W10) raises $5M Series B (forbes.com)
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  23. VP of Engineering

    500friends is backed by $12M from Crosslink, Intel, and YCombinator to help retailers take on Amazon and Walmart. Our technology stack includes Ruby, Rails 3, MySQL, EC2. Here are some of the many reasons why you should…

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  24. Rails hackers - help us make retail better (jobscore.com)
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  25. When revenue growth can be bad for start-ups (pandodaily.com)
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