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Vator Splash LA

SoCal Tech Calendar

This upcoming Splash will showcase 10 up-and-coming startups, prominent VCs and founders of the leading LA-based companies - Demand Media and ReachLocal. Hear Shawn Colo, co-founder and EVP of MandA at Demand Media, share his lessons and advice on building Demand from scratch in 2006 to one of this year's hottest IPOs.

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MySpace Startups: Startups From MySpace Vets

socalTECH

socalTECH has mined our proprietary database of startups and other tech companies to find some of the firms spawned by former MySpace executives. Here are four startups of them, and what they're doing: Demand Media. Venture backers : Oak Investment Partners, Spectrum Equity, W Capital Partners, Goldman Sachs & Co.,

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

Jason Nazar

I recently hosted a panel at the Twiistup Conference about LA tech companies. I have some pretty specific thoughts on the differences between companies in the two cities, as I wrote about in my previous post A Tale of Two Tech Cities. Challenge #1 – Tech Companies are Not Typically Started by Technologists.

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Local VCs Assess Wall Street, Technology Investment Climate

socalTECH

Kibble, who was returning from a board meeting of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) Friday, said the topic was definitely on the minds of other venture capitalists on the board of the NVCA. The question is, what does this mean for entrepreneurs and companies looking for investments? "I

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Vator Makes A Splash In LA!

Tech Zulu Event

If have a company and are interested in being part of this event there is still time for you to enter the competition. Go here to enter your company. Not ready to submit your company or just want to take part of this event? You still have 2 days left! The TZ Hookups. TechZulu is hooking you up with a special discount!

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Interview with Adam Lieber, Webtide

socalTECH

Adam also had a stint at Mission Ventures, and ran worldwide sales for open source middleware at IBM. Webtide is designed to be a company which is the expert on using Jetty in companies. Adam Lieber: I think the business model for any particular open source company depends on the open source.

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