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Face to Face with Fans

An interactive platform for web celebs gets two big investment rounds
Conversation starter: Spreecast's Jeff Fluhr.

After selling StubHub to eBay for $310 million in 2007, Jeff Fluhr took some time off. He planned to start another company but wanted to wait until the time was right. That moment came in 2011, when social media and the online video chat space had heated up too much for him to ignore.

"There's an opportunity to connect people face to face around

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