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Los Angeles Startup Community

SoCal CTO

So, I promised I would create this post to help point them in the right direction. Venture Capital As long as I'm pulling this together, here are some venture capital firms in Los Angeles that can help get you wired in. I told them that I had recently seen several posts/articles talking about how vibrant the community has become.

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Los Angeles Startup Community

SoCal CTO

So, I promised I would create this post to help point them in the right direction. Venture Capital As long as I'm pulling this together, here are some venture capital firms in Los Angeles that can help get you wired in. I told them that I had recently seen several posts/articles talking about how vibrant the community has become.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

Both Sides of the Table

We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. Current round: $5.0mm in Series A by NEA and Anthem Venture Partners. Online service offering privacy certification for web sites. Offers cloud-based web analytics software provider. 406 Ventures.

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

Both Sides of the Table

He’s also candid, humble and helpful. Web-based client for user stream data including Twitter (original focus), FaceBook, MySpace, Google Buzz, FourSquare and many others. Provider of real-time data and predictive analytics for web site publishers. I think you’ll enjoy watching this week’s video. MetaMarkets. Hello, Chair.

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Venture Group’s Krenn Sees Improving VC Deals for SD Tech Startups

Xconomy

As head of the non-profit organization supporting local startups, Krenn says the venture group will help to bring over 150 VCs to San Diego this year, including many from Silicon Valley. I haven’t seen it this good since 2007,” he says. That is an insane data point.” Venture data, however, only partly support Krenn’s exhuberance.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

Both Sides of the Table

Bill Gross is the man responsible for the overwhelming amount of monetization on the web. 2.6mm in Series A : Canaan , Anthem. They help speed up the network by pushing the highly viewed and large media files to the “edge&# of the network (e.g. High Profile Deal of the Week: 1. This is “Adsense for Twitter.”

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The Challenges (& Opportunities) of Starting a Tech Company in LA

Jason Nazar

He just pounded out design and code for a few weeks and got Plancast up on the web and users adopting his product right away. In Los Angeles we are at a disadvantage because the founder(s) often have no experience in building consumer web applications. It’s a chicken and egg problem.

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