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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. Now, thanks to social media, you don't have to outspend. You could just outspend. Enjoyed this post?

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Why I’ve Shifted More Attention to Facebook

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I signed up for Facebook before many – in 2005 – when I first moved back to the US. So throughout 2006/07 when I had really young kids Facebook was truly a social network for sharing family moments. Others had very few connections and they used it to share personal information. I was always more the latter.

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Flipagram: Using Photos And Music To Create A Viral Machine, with Farhad Mohit

socalTECH

The company recently raised $70M in funding to further expand its app and team, from such impressive investors as Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Index Ventures. Farhad Mohit: As you know, Bizrate spawned Shopzilla, which took us from 2000 to 2005. That was between 2010 and 2012. So, that didn't scale well.

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Flipagram: Using Photos And Music's To Create A Viral Machine, with Farhad Mohit

socalTECH

The company recently raised $70M in funding to further expand its app and team, from such impressive investors as Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Index Ventures. Farhad Mohit: As you know, Bizrate spawned Shopzilla, which took us from 2000 to 2005. That was between 2010 and 2012. So, that didn't scale well.

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

SoCal Delicious

Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with. What are some examples of successful companies that were started here? LowerMyBills, Inc.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

SoCal Delicious

Features like this, as well as our daily interviews wouldn’t be possible without the amazing support of our sponsor eMinutes – a law firm here in Los Angeles that focuses on helping entrepreneurs structure their companies. He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005.

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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

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We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies. Other Deals.