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TZ Presents: ‘Nice Guys’ DO Finish First In Business | Fireside Chat With Greg Cargill

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TechZulu is excited to invite you to a fireside chat with Greg Cargill, VP of Client Services and Social Media at BLITZ. Greg will share his experience on how to Successfully Build and Sell an Effective Social Media Marketing Agency. There will be plenty of FREE Pizza & Drinks!

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Mark Suster: New, $200M Fund, and GRP's New Name, Upfront Ventures

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Our 2008 fund is also performing incredibly strong. We''ve put lots of money into areas we know well, such as technology for the financial services industry, technology for retail services, and technology for digital media. Being so open, when entrepreneurs think about capital, we want to be top of mind. It''s the single best.

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TechZulu Presents: The Annual Startup Forecast

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28 from 7pm-10pm in Santa Monica. Brock Pierce is a 10x entrepreneur best known for pioneering the market for digital currency. Peter Csathy - CEO Manatt Digital Media Ventures. Prior to joining Manatt, Mr. Csathy was President and CEO of Sorenson Media, Inc., He continues to sit on the board of Sorenson Media.

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How TaskUs Is Powering LA's Technology Startup Boom

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The two of us really wanted to be entrepreneurs. We''d gone to high school together in Santa Monica, and we were both very entrepreneurial in high school. In 2008, we started to throw around ideas, and eventually settled on this one. angeles startup taskus outsourcing phillippines growth bryce maddock entrepreneur'

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Here are More Signs that LA Tech is Moving to the Next Level

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When I first arrived in LA my good friend Matt Pillar (a long-term veteran of tech, media & VC) who had been in LA for some time told me, “in LA there’s none better than David.” For starters, David had once been an entrepreneur himself so it seemed like such a natural fit. There’s more!

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

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He didn’t tell it in the video but, ever the entrepreneur, Scott started a business to take couples up on a “mile high club&# flight on airplanes as a way of getting all of his miles logged to get his next class of airplane license that required a certain number of hours logged. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

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industry investors rather than VCs) a good idea for entrepreneurs. His view: sometimes entrepreneurs expect too much value from the partner. Founded in November 2008 by Jack Moffitt and Patrick Mahoney; CEO is Gerry Campbell (ex-AOL, ex-Reuters/OpenCalais). Are “strategic investors&# (e.g.