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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

Both Sides of the Table

Web-based client for user stream data including Twitter (original focus), FaceBook, MySpace, Google Buzz, FourSquare and many others. I don’t do advertising on my blog, but I thought it was worth mentioning Ryan in particular because he has an alternate model for doing a startup. Estimated 15mm downloads to date. MetaMarkets.

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

Both Sides of the Table

In his blog he says, “I responded that I thought it was stupid. Creative – we’re a place of writers, directors, producers, musicians, costume designers, make-up artists, graphic artists, 3D modelers. They designed the next gen UI for the film The Minority Report. My views are pretty well known. LA should be LA.”

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Inside the Realms of Ruin

TechCrunch LA

“The Ruin stirs, and the Five Realms rumble,” a now-archived web announcement read on Thursday morning. Federa added that the entire Solana network is designed to keep fees low in the long term. This mistrust goes back years to the founding of Archive of Our Own.

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Interview with Raph Koster, Metaplace

socalTECH

I believe that when you marry the web and technology out of the game industry, you can empower people to really exploit the potential that virtual worlds have to bring people together and socialize. Raph Koster: If you think of how virtual worlds have worked, they haven't worked like the web has. That's what we're about.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

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I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. In 2006 we sold the company to a French services company. Irony, hey?).

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Off To SXSW, Our Schedule, And A Special Thanks

Tech Zulu Event

BuzzVoice makes your favorite news & blogs TALK - So you can listen to the stories you wish you had time to read - while you get things done! AudioMicro - Are you a composer, publisher, songwriter, musician, independent band, sound designer, or audio engineer? Justin.tv - Founded in October 2006, Justin.tv In Minutes.

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LA Tech Startup Innovators and Fun Facts

Tech Zulu Event

Fun Fact: One of the most prominent figures from their firm, Mark Suster t, runs a blog startups follow religiously. Founded in London in 2006, the Hub is a global network of social enterprises with each individual chapter acting as a gathering place for innovation, technology, creativity, and positive change. Incubator: Amplify LA.

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