Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

We are also home to DemandMedia (Richard Rosenblatt) and Mahalo (Jason Calacanis). A debate ensued in which the consensus was, “to build the next Google or Salesforce.com you probably need to be in Silicon Valley but that SoCal had produced many great companies that made a tremendous amount of money and that would likely continue.”.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 5, 2012

Following a quick ice-breaker game of “Half-baked” where anyone in the room throws out a word to then generate an entertaining pitch, the real pitches began. Tyler Crowley, of Sqweal, Launch, ThisWeekInStartups, Open Angel Forum, and Mahalo, stopped by to give a quick coaching session on pitch prep.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Interesting that Booyah is led by a former game producer, Keith Lee, who formerly launched very large products for Blizzard Entertainment. Read more: VentureWire (requires login) , Mahalo Profile Page. I don’t like going against Google Docs or against 37Signals for project management. I would also note that they claim 2.1

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