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ShopNation Raises $800K, Launches Fashion Discovery Site

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Santa Monica-based ShopNation has raised $800,000 in a seed funding, and launched a new fashion discovery site today. The company--one of the companies in the LaunchpadLA effort--is the second startup for Schneider and Kervin, who founded StarBrand Media, a celebrity shopping startup acquired by Sugar Inc.

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Livestrong.com Reports Growth For Team RadioShack Site

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Santa Monica-based LIVESTRONG.COM , the online health and fitness site run by Demand Media for Lance Armstrong, reported today that its new site for Team RadioShack, the professional cycling team of Armstrong, has grown to one million visitors in just seven days. READ MORE>>.

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ContentNext Up For Sale

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Guardian News & Media , the firm behind web publisher ContentNext , is in discussions with potential buyers about a possible sale, according to a report from the firm's own site, paidContent.

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Three Southern California Firms Building Blog Empires

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The firm has been squarely aimed at the content and blog world, with recent hires of editors from AOL's PopEater, and TMZ.com, to help build out its sites. It also powers the celebrity sites of such folks as Britney Spears, Kim Kardashian, and Nicole Richie. corp.mail.com). www.contentnext.com). Let us know!

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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. How has your broad social media presence affected your dealflow? Mark Suster: One thing: track record.

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Interview with Michael Schneider, Mobile Roadie

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Actually, no thanks to Santa Monica-based Mobile Roadie. Michael Schneider: I was running a design agency, Fluid Design, in Santa Monica, which I started in high school. Taylor actually came in through the front door, and just signed up on our web site. How did this all come about? I ran it for almost a decade.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

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-Search leverages selective filtering via XMPP versus site indexing; only real-time search player to do so. Founded in November 2008 by Jack Moffitt and Patrick Mahoney; CEO is Gerry Campbell (ex-AOL, ex-Reuters/OpenCalais). Preliminary details: Social e-commerce site, based around celebrity and influencer-curated recommendations.