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March 17, 2012 07:52 am GMT

Tim The Freak Lincecum Co-founds Stealth Startup 12Society, More Celebs To Come

Screen shot 2012-03-16 at 7.18.32 PMBack in October 2010, billionaire tech investor Mark Cuban jumped into the daily deals game with a $1.5 million seed investment in gift online shopping deals startup JungleCents. The startup took a somewhat alternative approach to daily deals, using a lead generation model to give publishers supplemental revenue streams. Today, it has pretty good traction. Its deals are now reaching 2.2 million email addresses (publishers included), and its sign-up rate tripled in the last three months of 2011.However, at the beginning of this year, Cuban acquired all of the JungleCents assets, allowing the startup's co-founders, Sameer Mehta and Nadir Hyder, to take off to found a new venture. Today,

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