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LAVA Honors Richard Riordan, Local Technology Firms

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The Los Angeles Venture Association (LAVA) held its annual awards event last night, honoring former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan, as well as local, venture backed companies in a banquet last night at the Luxe hotel in Los Angeles. Other finalists were Clicker.com , Truecar , and Zumbox.

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SPONSORED POST: LAVA's Meet the VCs November 17th

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socalTECH is a media sponsor of the LAVA Special Event: Meet the VCs on November 17th. The event features an interactive networking roundtable at which more than 30 venture capitalists from California, who will talk with local entrepreneurs about deal flow and the types of investments they're looking to fund.

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LAVA's 7th Annual Venture Awards Dinner

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Thursday, January 21, 2010 -- LAVA's 7th Annual Venture Awards Dinner. 2010 LAVA Hall of Fame Inductee: Jake Winebaum; Best Exit Life Sciences: Corevalve, Inc.; Master of Ceremonies: Ken Rutkowski, METal International.

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Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California

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He talks about a bunch of the different networking events that occur in Los Angeles and other parts of Southern California. Often good topics and interesting networking. Quality of Events Of course, the bigger issue with events is finding the ones where you will have a really good opportunity to network with interesting people.

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Nerdist Industries Names Execs

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Rymer joins from Lava Bear Films, where he was COO and CFO, and also produced the film The Rover. Rymer will head up expansion across "multiple" platforms; Herrguth will develop and produce content for film, television, and digital media for the company. He also has been at Universal Studios Motion Pictures Group. READ MORE>>.

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PR for Startups

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LAVA is putting together a panel of experts from the PR world, including journalists, bloggers and PR wizards to give you a map on how to navigate the world of public relations. Get tips on mastering social media and earning coverage for your company in the press and on the web. Come join us for a stellar panel and great networking.

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Inspiring College Entrepreneurship | With lessons from Y Combinator and Elon Musk

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The biggest challenge is providing the incubated teams with enough resources, workshops, and networking without distracting them too much from their work since at the end of the day, the goal really is to achieve growth. Most importantly, because of the natural networking process that is occurring as a student in a large university.