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Eight Repeat Entrepreneurs To Watch In SoCal

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Confident Technologies / Curtis Staker / San Diego - Staker is the former President of Websense, and has pulled together an experienced team with a depth of experience from the firm.

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How Chinese Startup Tradesparq Is Looking To Grow In SoCal

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It''s a social network for world trade, kind of a combo between Alibaba and LinkedIn. Michael Kleist: My business partner and I were both originally from San Diego. We''ve now reached critical mass in content, and in Asia we''re number three in the amount of information on products and suppliers online.

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Using Social Media to Market Your Business

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Thursday, June 25, 2009 -- Using Social Media to Market Your Business. San Diego Venture Group. Resistance to social media is futile. Millions of people are creating content for the social Web. Special Keynote Headliner: Guy Kawasaki. Your competitors are already there.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

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Otis Chandler built Goodreads in 2006 because he believed in social networking and wanted to see what his friends were reading. She just spoke at TED EX in San Diego. He is on a mission to form 500 free corporations for first-time, passionate entrepreneurs. Otis Chandler – Founder and CEO of Goodreads. Magnanimous.

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

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Social media. Social networking. Social games. The great NorCal vs. SoCal debate is a longstanding, undeniable rivalry between the stereotypical surfer dudes of the south and environmental geeks to the north. There are a lot of misconceptions about SoCal and it’s time we set them straight. Streaming media.