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California Technology Ventures Invests In Games Firm

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Pasadena-based venture capital firm California Technology Ventures has staked a developer of a video game software engine, Blade Games , with a $4M investment. According to Blade Games, which is based in Bellevue, Washington, CTV funded the firm in an initial round of investment.

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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

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Recently I wrote a post arguing to make the definition of a Startup more inclusive than that to which Silicon Valley, fueled by Venture Capital return profiles, would sometimes like to attach to the word. Think USV is only invested around Union Square in NYC? The key it to have “realistic capital.”

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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” I hear it when I visit LPs (the people who invest in VCs) all across the country, “Yeah, I haven’t been out there for a few years but I keep hearing that something is going on there.” billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure.

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Menlo Ventures Karl Mehta Launches CodeForIndia.Org To Empower Citizens In India

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Silicon Valley-based entrepreneur and VC, Karl Mehta has launched Code For India (CFI) to empower the country’s citizens to actively participate in improving their communities. Mehta too has been appointed by Governor Brown to the Workforce Investment Board in California. Think Local, Hack Global. Its time to code for India.

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Go West Young Men: Winklevoss Twins Buy $18M L.A. Mansion To Dive Into SoCal Tech Scene

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.” The new mansion will reportedly be inhabited mostly by Tyler, who will use it as his home base while launching West Coast operations of the brothers’ new NYC-based venture capital firm , Winklevoss Capital. Software Engineer, Back End – Games.com Games.com Sr. Latest Headlines Delivered To You.

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Interview with Anne Walls and John Singleton, WordHustler

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It's something that is really neat which we invested in, which we've never seen anywhere else. I started my career as a technologist, as a software engineer. If someone has a contest form in PDF on a web site, we can fill that out and track that submission. John Singleton: I came at writing a little late in the game.

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Twiistup 007: Final Showoff's Additional Speakers and TZ Discount

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Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content. . Prior to founding FirstMark Capital, Rick was a Partner with Pequot Ventures. Bambi Francisco.