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Cisco to Pay $660M for Luxtera, Maker of Advanced Data Center Chips

Xconomy

Cisco has agreed to pay $660 million for Luxtera, a Caltech spinout that makes optical chips for data centers. Cisco, the San Jose, CA-based tech giant (NASDAQ: CSCO ), said Tuesday that Luxtera’s advanced chips will help it offer its customers faster and better network service performance.

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Local Event Organizers Need to Adopt Social Media

SoCal CTO

The spark for this post is that I'm going to go to Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum on Saturday. I did a quick search and didn't find many blog posts mentioning that specific event. They really need to take a look at how Twiistup , Mixergy and others are doing to both promote and help make their events better for attendees.

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

Both Sides of the Table

In his blog he says, “I responded that I thought it was stupid. World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA. Home of JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), which helps put rockets into space. So his Twitter handle is @infoarbitrage and his excellent (must read) blog is Information Arbitrage. LA should be LA.”

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

socalTECH

Plus, he told us a little bit about how he's helping to build a mini cluster of technology companies in the Silverlake area. It's like WordPress, but instead of blogging, it provides an online community, which is self-hosted. We had to figure out what would help the other 90 percent build better and more interesting sites.

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Want to Know How First Round Capital was Started?

Both Sides of the Table

If you read this blog often you'll know that I'm a huge fan of First Round Capital. He then went on to teach Computer Science at Cornell, Caltech, and University of Pennsylvania. Through his research he helped bring ARPANET to Philadelphia in 1973. This becomes a support group and allows them to help each other succeed.

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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

Both Sides of the Table

Over time we’ll continue to build out the applications – helping make the entire web more social.&#. It became a theme in my keynote at Caltech on the future of social networking. What I’ve learned about Sequoia is that when you’re straightforward about the facts they just try to help. They look at data.

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

With LaunchPad’s help, more than 61 Orange County companies have raised more than $97 million in startup capital, seed, and series A investments — and much of that money comes from Valley investors betting on their neighbors to the south. blog comments powered by Disqus. billion for its endowment in 2011 alone. most popular.