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Internet Brands Brisco: Deal Will Allow More Focus On Long Term Growth

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Los Angeles-based Internet Brands , which operates a suite of online, advertising driven websites across a wide range of verticals, said Monday that it would go private in a $640M, private equity deal, bucking the trend of Southern California companies filing to get to the public markets. Internet Brands had gone public just three years ago.

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With its third fund, Revolution Ventures stays true to its mission

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The firm’s portfolio includes Detroit’s direct-to-consumer plant startup Bloomscape , Chicago-based Paro , which provides a network of on-demand finance professionals, DC’s custom framing business Framebridge , Milwaukee-based monthly wine club Bright Cellars and New York insurtech company Policygenius.

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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map

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Richard Rosenblatt – Demand Media. Most recently, Rosenblatt cofounded Demand Media, launching in 2006 with $120 million in equity and the acquisition of eHow.com. You might know Demand Media better as the people behind Cracked, DailyPuppy, and GolfLink. Matt Coffin – LowerMyBills.com.

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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

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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. RockYou (US) was founded in Redwood City in November 2005 by Lance Tokuda and Jia Shen. Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

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When I saw what BuddyTV is working on and how long they’ve been the market (since 2005) I realized that this has huge potential to help disrupt the television market. Every region needs its local media & events. They haven’t launched their next gen product – watch this space. No Dave S. = We know it can be done.