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Factual Partners With Newsweek

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Gil Elbaz, who was most recently at Google, was one of the founders of Applied Semantics, a Santa Monica firm which developed Google's AdSense product. Factual said that the partnership will help parents, student, and educators to make more informed decisions, and help transform what were static data tables into interactive, dynamic ones.

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What Mattered in 2010: Greg Martin, Archer Venture Capital

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We last shared the thoughts of John Babcock at Rustic Canyon Partners. So many important companies and products come to mind in 2010, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Zynga, the iPad, Android, but I think the company that had the biggest impact was Groupon. What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year? Stay tuned.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

Both Sides of the Table

This week’s guest was David Travers from Rustic Canyon Partners. Rustic Canyon is an LA-based, but geography-agnostic VC that is currently investing from a $200 million fund. So my gut says this will be a youth-oriented product. They focus on trying to drive engagbranded social media marketing campaigns (e.g.

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

Jason Nazar

In the bay area it’s quite common for the entrepreneurs starting a company to be developers or technologists who can build the first versions of their products. 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. Whereas in Silicon Valley, you can have a V.1

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