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N3XT CON

SoCal Tech Calendar

Hear from industry leaders in technology, entertainment and startups in three rooms at the Pasadena Convention Center.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Greycroft is an early-stage VC. Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. It seems to be geared on a “Monopoly” style game. Total raised: $29.5mm.

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Best Reads for Casual Friday: Big Tech Businesses Gets Political

Xconomy

Time to curl up in your cubicle, pop open one of these in-depth, entertaining reads, and catch up on some of what you missed during a busy week. You’ve made it to Friday. This week we’re taking a look at all the political stories that are coming out of the tech world.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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Changes in the Software World & in Venture Capital. But notably you had the following changes: Horizontally scalable computing & storage systems, which meant you required less capital up front for hardware. Venture Capital. And then the world changed. Changes in the Startup Ecosystem. KickStarter?

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Assignmint: Freelance Work Available | Founder Interview, The Future of Journalism & The LA Startup Scene

Tech Zulu Event

It doesn’t matter who you are; you can be writing long-form journalism for Rolling Stone, doing advertorials for BuzzFeed, or you can be writing the menu for the restaurant down the street. They know everything about startups and know every VC contact in the world. The entertainment money cannot be overlooked either.

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

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Some, of course, agree with me that BuzzFeed has been and continues to be the gold standard innovator in digital media to emulate. Or perhaps you think Donald Trumps assessment that BuzzFeed is a “ Failing pile of garbage is correct?” Others are skeptical, “Ha! Wasn’t Jonah worried about “platform risks?”

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