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Demand Media Buys Saatchi Art, Appoints Sean Moriarty As CEO

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Moriarty is an active advisor in the Los Angeles technology startup community, and serves on the board of Eventbrite, Metacloud, and TuneIn. He also has served at IAC/Citysearch, prior to headin gup Ticketmaster. demand media saatchi sean moriarty executive merger acquisition' to $1M per quarter to the company. READ MORE>>.

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BlackLine Systems Names New CTO

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Los Angeles-based financial software developer BlackLine Systems said today that it has hired a new, Chief Technology Officer. He also has served at such companies at Stamps.com, Citysearch/Ticketmaster, and TCI/AND Interactive and Packard Bell. According to the enterprise software company, it has named Alain Avakian as its CTO.

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OpenX Names Idealab's McPherson As Chief Legal Officer

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Los Angeles-based online advertising technology provider OpenX announced this morning that it has appointed Douglas McPherson, the former General Counsel of Idealab, as its new Chief Legal Officer. OpenX said that McPherson has joined the board of directors of Idealab as part of the move. READ MORE>>.

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Bolstering the Partner Ranks at GRP

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He co-founded a prominent accelerator in Los Angeles called MuckerLab , that has produced a number of impressive companies and he mentored more than 20 of them. One of his biggest accomplishments there was championing the acquisition of StubHub. This is exactly the brand that GRP Partners wants to embody. I made some reference calls.

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

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I am taking the lead from GRP and we also invested alongside a number of friends including Dave McClure, Dave Tisch, Ben Smith (Merchant Circle), Brian Lee (ShoeDazzle, LegalZoom), Jason Calacanis, Evan Rifkin, Jennifer Lum, Jay Weintraub and a whole host of other angels. But Ethan had left by the time of the acquisition. Nice sweep!

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Catching Up With Dave Hagan, Boingo

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Los Angeles-based Boingo (www.boingo.com) is one of longest standing Internet companies. It happened that as part of that acquisition, we bought a nice, distributed antenna systems business as well. They were really a thriving, early market.

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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map

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If a person from outside Los Angeles is a fan of the city, dig a little and you’ll probably find that they like it for the celebrities, Hollywood not LA. Well, they’re all wrong, and Los Angeles is about to prove it. Next → For one reason or another, people in this country tend to look down on LA. Share on Facebook.