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Mahalo Retools As Educational Content Apps Provider

socalTECH

Remember Santa Monica-based Mahalo , the startup headed by Jason Calacanis and backed by such investors as Sequoia Capital? In a recent blog post, Calacanis said that the firm has now seen more than 950,000 downloads of its apps and 200M videos on YouTube, in the last six months.

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Mahalo Takes On Questions and Answers

socalTECH

Santa Monica-based Mahalo, the high profile startup headed by Jason Calacanis, has launched a new questions and answers site it is calling Mahalo Answers. Mahalo is a human powered search engine which uses a team of editors to cull the web for information on the most popular search topics. READ MORE>>

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ShopNation Raises $800K, Launches Fashion Discovery Site

socalTECH

Santa Monica-based ShopNation has raised $800,000 in a seed funding, and launched a new fashion discovery site today. ShopNation's web site allows users to find fashion products, including clothing, shoes, handbags, accessories, and lingerie, sort-able by brand, features, price, and other options. READ MORE>>.

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Layoffs Hot Keyword for Second Half of January 2009

SoCal CTO

Here's the rest. Top for January 16, 2009 - January 31, 2009 Posts Are You Selling Online Yet? Here’s how to do it. -The

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

Jason Nazar

1 of a product up and running in a few months weeks getting thousands of users for next to no capital, in Los Angeles many folks will take over a year and spend a million dollars just to get a beta product ready. 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.

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

SoCal Delicious

Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with. Jason Calacanis – Mahalo Jason Calacanis was CEO and co-founder of Weblogs, Inc.,

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