Also participating in the round were CMEA Capital, Venture51, Crunchfund, Mark Ecko and Artists and Instigators.

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At Burlington Coat Factory, "minority youth" enjoy selecting urban-style clothing from designers like SeanJean, Ecko, Baby Phat, Rocawear and LRG.

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Mr. Ecko, founder of his namesake billion-dollar fashion company, posted a request for a cake resembling a can of Barq's Famous Olde Tyme Root Beer for his now seven-year-old son's birthday.

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It quickly established its mastery of the new media ecosystem with a video hoax that showed designer Marc Ecko spraying graffiti on Air Force One, one of the first instances of viral marketing on YouTube, then only a year old.

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