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A Tale of Two Tech Cities – Silicon Valley vs. Los Angeles

Jason Nazar

Is there a difference between tech startups in Silicon Valley vs. Los Angeles? At parties in the Bay people talk about Twitter, Friend Feed, what’s being written on Valleywag and Techcrunch, and kickball games between VC’s and entrepreneurs. Peter Pham – best networker / connector in web 2.0.

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ExpenseBay Takes Twiistup

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Los Angeles-based ExpenseBay scored the top award--a Lego trophy--at last week's Twiistup startup showcase event, rising above 11 other startups looking to strut their stuff to investors, angel investors, entrepreneurs, and others at the Universal Hilton on Thursday and Friday.

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Where LinkedIn Works for Me

SoCal CTO

When I was looking for speakers for an event last fall on Web 2.0 , LinkedIn was a great way to reach out. ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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Aaron Fyke, Thin Line Capital: The Second Wave Of Cleantech Investing

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We spoke with Aaron--a veteran of both clean technology investing, as well as former CEO of a number of clean technology companies here in Los Angeles--on the new fund. You then caught things like Web 2.0, What's the ideal entrepreneur and technology for your fund? Talk about the new firm and the new fund?

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Interview with Jan Zands, Phonesheet.com

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Jan Zands is the founders of Los Angeles-based phonesheet.com (www.phonesheet.com), a startup which is developing web-based software for tracking phone messages and action items. Jan Zands: It's a web based phone message manager. So what Phonesheet.com does is takes that antiquated system and modernizes it, using a Web 2.0

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

SoCal CTO

Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0 I regularly do wine tastings here in Los Angeles with some interesting folks I know. ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. event I did last fall.

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Interview with Edward Park, Insteegram

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One way is through Insteegram (www.insteegram.com) , a service recently launched by Los Angeles-based Rnddr Labs, which allows users to buy their own Instagram images printed onto a high quality T-shirt. was community and content, we think Web 3.0 We think we're opening up another channel to help companies monetize.

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