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Factual Gains Funding, Names Investors

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Santa Monica-based Factual , the new data focused startup run by Gil Elbaz , the co-founder of Applied Semantics , which invented Google's AdSense technology, is announcing the investors in the firm this evening. Applied Semantics was the original developer of Google AdSense technology, and was purchased for pre-IPO Google stock in 2003.

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Local VCs Assess Wall Street, Technology Investment Climate

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John Babcock, a Managing Director at Rustic Canyon, told us that "while panics are a regular part of free markets, we are definitely into uncharted territory here in terms of the size and speed of the government response to prevent systemic market failure. "

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Mark Suster, Nely Galan to Keynote Silicon Beach Fest

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This second annual fest brings together technology leaders, startup CEOs, investors, Hollywood studio executives, entrepreneurs, developers, students and more to celebrate LA’s dynamic technology industries with panels, workshops, hackathon, mixers, and a start-up showcase spotlighting 40 local startups. In 2012 over $3.2

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Docstoc's Jason Nazar Talks About DocStore

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It's pretty typical in the life of a startup, where we've proven we have a product people like, and use and demand, and can scale, and we did a pretty effective job of learning about advertising and making revenues off high yielding, CPC advertising. There is a huge demand from people, who have gone there to buy products.

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

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While we often lack the technology and product depth of our counterparts in the Bay, I would argue that entrepreneurs in LA would thrive if you dropped them into any industry. If there were more great companies coming out of LA then it would create more demand for high quality VC firms. It’s a chicken and egg problem.

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