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Twiistup 6 Highlights

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I believe that Twiistup is now a platform from which to grow and highlight what is uniquely LA. We are also home to DemandMedia (Richard Rosenblatt) and Mahalo (Jason Calacanis). As should Eric Sikola and ExpenseBay who won the “Showoff&# judges competition ( Photos featured here taken by (cc) Kenneth Yeung – [link] ).

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. Read more: VentureWire (requires login) , Mahalo Profile Page. We also talked a lot about Stickybits (who uses the SimpleGeo platform) and Occipital who has the red-hot RedLaser scanning product. OTHER DEALS: 1.

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How to Save MySpace

Jason Nazar

This could also be done by leveraging a partnership (or buyout) of a site like Mahalo. MySpace HAS followers, what it doesn’t have are people excited to promote themselves on their platform. I want Facebook to legitimately have competition, so we all benefit as consumers. Local newspapers are dying all across the country.

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Raising $$ on AngelList? Working w/ McClure? Ask Jody Sherman

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It is a communication platform. If I’m not mistaken, I may have been the first person to send out an angel “personal intro&# email on AngelList through their new platform when it launched or at least I was one of the first few. AngelList has introduced new competition and competition in any industry is always good.

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