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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

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No blog post about how Tiger is crushing everybody because it’s deploying all its capital in 1-year while “suckers” are investing over 3-years can change this reality. million, our Seed Funds mostly between $200–300 million and have delivered median ownerships of ~20% from the first check we write into a startup. It’s just math.

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Yowie Powers Town Hall For Presidential Candidate Gary Johnson

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Shut out of the Republican party's televised debates, Republic Presidential Candidate and former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson has taken his campaign online--using the technology of Santa Monica-based Yowie. Yowie said the town hall will be the first ever in a series of chats with politicians and pundits.

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

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We caught up with Mark Suster , one of Upfront''s General Partners and a well known blogger and technology personality, the new fund, and how his blogging is now driving the firm''s investment activity. It''s good news for us, but it''s also good news for Los Angeles technology. Tell us about the new fund?

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Curating The Web Using PublishThis, with Matt Kumin

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Prior to starting PublishThis, I was the General Manager for Edmunds.com, the automotive site here in Santa Monica. We found that aggregation technology was very keyword driven, and relevancy was not that strong. In the past, companies were just blogging, or just creating content.

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Gil Elbaz On Factual's New Warchest

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Last night, Santa Monica-based Factual (www.factual.com), the data provider and data tools firm, announced a big, $25M funding round from Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures. That require lots of cleaning an de-duping technology in order to use those billions of source records, and put them into a nice place database.

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

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In his blog he says, “I responded that I thought it was stupid. I recommend that you start by writing down the attributes you would want people to think about when they think about your brand. An innovator in technology, especially monetization. Still, I kind like the name, well, um, … Santa Monica.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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so compelling (other than the fact that the CEO Sean Rad is a great young technology leader and his advisers – Brian Norgard , Dan Gould and Evan Rifkin - are some of the guys I respect most in the LA tech market.). Then came blogs. So what do we mean by in-stream advertising? was the 2-way web. So did the media. I used to.

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