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Interview with Patrick Kennedy, Sidebar

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Patrick Kennedy: Sidebar is a company that was founded to bring consumers personalized content, focused on mobile delivery of that content. I joined about a year ago--a bunch of us did--and looked at where Sidebar was as it was gearing up for a full consumer launch of its personalized content portal. What is Sidebar all about?

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Docstoc's Jason Nazar Talks About DocStore

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We're now doing around 20 million people a month to Docstoc, and wanted to leverate that to create a marketplace where you could buy and sell professional content. Do you screen all of the documents on the marketplace, or how does that work? Jason Nazar: We screen the profiles, but we don't screen the content.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. Founded in 2007. Note that I’m not defining who numbers 1,2 are.

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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Presenting Companies at UCLA

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For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

SoCal Delicious

The apps can stream video, audio, news feeds, Twitter, Facebook, sell digital content, physical merchandise, and much more. Loren Bendele joined Savings.com in January 2007 as the CEO. Michael Schneider is the CEO of Mobile Roadie , the leading self-service mobile app engagement platform. Loren Bendele – CEO of Savings.com.

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Snapchat 101 for VCs and Old Folks

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I do regular (almost daily) “Snapstorms” of content around one topic for entrepreneurs and VCs. The starting screen every time is the camera. Look at the top of your screen in the middle and you’ll see the Snapchat ghost. If you look at the bottom of your screen you’ll see buttons in each bottom corner.

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

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I had been selling large content management systems and storing documents for industrial-scale customers. It’s the input screens where we enter data or search requests. It’s the screens that pop up our restaurant locations, calculate our exercise outputs or show us our bank balances. I was dead set against it.

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