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Twiistup 6 Highlights

Both Sides of the Table

I believe that Twiistup is now a platform from which to grow and highlight what is uniquely LA. We are also home to DemandMedia (Richard Rosenblatt) and Mahalo (Jason Calacanis). No doubt the platform that Francisco built will take Twiistup 7 to a whole different level. Much of this was highlighted at Twiistup.

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USC Startup Weekend | Complete Breakdown

Tech Zulu Event

A mobile and web platform that lets our users give and receive text messaging advice in a anonymous social community. Network Now, Accelerating Conference Networking. People who want to learn something connect with people that can teach them. Neighborly. Time to get to know your neighbors by sharing goods. Text To Get Her.

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

SoCal Delicious

Demand Media is an online media company operating two strategically-linked businesses: an integrated content and social media platform, and registrar solutions. MySpace is one of the world’s largest social networks, with about 125 million users. Jason Calacanis – Mahalo Jason Calacanis was CEO and co-founder of Weblogs, Inc.,

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. Read more: VentureWire (requires login) , Mahalo Profile Page. We also talked a lot about Stickybits (who uses the SimpleGeo platform) and Occipital who has the red-hot RedLaser scanning product. OTHER DEALS: 1.

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How to Save MySpace

Jason Nazar

Get users immediately into valuable content that engages them in the site: featured video, music, news; video, popular trending items in my network. This could also be done by leveraging a partnership (or buyout) of a site like Mahalo. I’m not friends with most of the people that are connected to me on social networks.