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Published on: 8/15/2009
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Lunch with Mark Fletcher, Rich Skrenta, Eric Goldman or Andy Kessler
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So lunch with Mark, Rich, Eric or Andy is your time to actually ask some serious questions about starting up businesses in a practical way. (Or you can chat about the state of intellectual property law with Masnick and Eric.) The location of lunch will be decided based on how all our schedules match up, so we can only promise one featured guest at lunch, but we'll certainly try to get more of them to join us.
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Mark Fletcher
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Mark Fletcher
Mark Fletcher was the founder and CEO of the news aggregator website, Bloglines, and a Vice President of Ask.com until June 2006.
Ask Jeeves acquired Bloglines on 8 February 2005.
In February 2005, Fletcher won one of the annual Rave Awards, presented by Wired magazine.
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Previously, Fletcher started the free mailing list service ONElist.
ONElist merged with eGroups, which was later acquired by Yahoo! in June 2000 and is now called Yahoo! Groups.
Fletcher was also a software engineer at internet appliance maker Diba, Inc., now owned by Sun Microsystems, and at Pixel, Inc.
Mark obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of California, San Diego.