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Interview with Brian Garrett, Crosscut Ventures

socalTECH

It's analytics around users and visitation on web sites, and it's knowledge of the consumption of photos--for example, GumGum--or video images on the web. In about 2005, I started looking at the local market, and realized that there are not lots of enterprise IT companies here, which is Palomar's focus.

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Off To SXSW, Our Schedule, And A Special Thanks

Tech Zulu Event

The time has come for us to say goodbye SoCal (temporarily of course) and HELLO Austin! Make sure to checkout the updated SMCH3 site as they have tons of great info. . WillYouTrend.com is a site set out on the mission to inspire us all to be great, influential people. Trending topics are all the rage, Twitter, Google.

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Interview with Peter Lee, Baroda Ventures

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He was basically active investing until 2004 and 2005, and then started getting much more involved in the non-profit space. Peter Lee: Essentially, we are Southern California focused, through we will be looking at out of SoCal investments--we're not closing our doors to those, but our interest is really in focusing down here.

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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Individuals use social networking sites such as LinkedIn and Plaxo as career-advancing tools, even more useful in a down economy. Social networking sites and microblogs are used not only to build company brands, but to foster productivity; social media tools help build communities around the question, "What are you working on?"

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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map

SoCal Delicious

Adam Goldenberg’s JustFab is one of the new heavy-hitting membership fashion sites. A SoCal native and graduate of both UCLA and USC, Richard Rosenblatt led the growth of MySpace from an unknown to a household name. Coffin sold LowerMyBills.com in 2005 for 300 million and took that money into the Los Angeles startup sector.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. Facebook is about to try to dominate display ads the way Google dominates text ads - Chris Dixon , May 15, 2010 It is customary to divide online advertising into two categories: direct response and brand advertising. they have purchasing intent ).*.

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Interview with Mark Suster, GRP Partners

socalTECH

billion to Yahoo, we did CitySearch, we invested in the largest travel site in Europe, called LastMinute.com, and also CyberSource--a number of very early stage, Internet companies. An A-round investment in the late 90's, or even in 2005/2006, or 2007, was a $5-8M check. We invested in Overture, which was sold for $1.2