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Metacloud Debuts OpenStack Private Cloud Services

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MetaCloud is headed by Steve Curry, the former head of Yahoo's global storage operations. Vice President of Technology Operations at Ticketmaster Entertainment. OpenStack is based on the cloud computing infrastructure at Rackspace, and is very similar to competing offerings from Amazon Web Services. READ MORE>>.

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Twiistup 007: Date, Speakers, Early Bird Special

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In 1995 he developed with Robert Morris the first web-based application, Viaweb, which was acquired by Yahoo in 1998. Managing Director of FirstMark Capital, a $2 billion VC fund focusing on investments in the emerging media & advertising and data & analytics sectors. He is also a Venture Partner at True Ventures.

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Grokker Wants to Help You Cook, Keep Fit and Meditate

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The network produces its own videos in-house, featuring a notable network of expert yogis, chefs, trainers and fitness instructors, and also curates a selection of the best videos from around the Web. Grokker category managers also actively curate a selection of the best videos on each topic available from other Web sources.

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Twiistup 007: Final Showoff's Additional Speakers and TZ Discount

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Founder and CEO of Mandalay Entertainment, the visionary multimedia venture spanning movies, TV, sports, and new media, Peter Guber is among the most successful executives in the entertainment and communications industries. Prior to founding FirstMark Capital, Rick was a Partner with Pequot Ventures. Alex Quilici. gigaom.com.

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

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Assignmint is a web-based platform to list freelancing work for employers and help writers find the right freelance job for them and standardizes the paperwork between the two parties. Is Assignmint national or a global web-system? You even got Yahoo! The entertainment money cannot be overlooked either. It’s standardized.

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Tilofy: Making Sense Of The World Around You Using Location Data

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Prior to Tilofy, I had technical positions at Yahoo, Microsoft, and Samsung, ranging from development, to program management, to senior technology person on Samsung''s smart TV platform. Those three organizations have very strong networks inventure capital, entertainment, and academia, and put together the incubator.

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Interview Dan Dato and Bruce Brown, Upstart.LA

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We're looking to launch our first class in the fall, with five to ten companies, with the TechStars model of a small capital investment, and a seed investment of $6000 per founder. which became Softbank Marketing, selling ads for Yahoo before Yahoo had its own salesforce. Then I started working for these companies as well.

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