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Interview with Aaron Crayford, Rippol

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Recently, San Diego-based Rippol (www.rippol.com) launched its web site, a service which uses social networking to help people find and discover interesting videos related to their interests. So is this more social networking, or is this search? Those are buddies of mine from UCSD, and the open source community.

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

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MySpace is one of the world’s largest social networks, with about 125 million users. He runs the Southern California Venture Capital Alliance (VCA) and is on the board of advisors for the venture capital fund of the UCSD Rady School of Business. He blogs here and tweets here.

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We’re All Frogs Boiling in Water

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Technological change is astounding and I think none more than the impact that social networks has had on our lives. If you haven’t read it I think it’s a pretty interesting piece on change in the era of Twitter (as distinct from previous social networks). As you can see it tackles a lot.

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What Most People Don’t Understand About How Startup Companies are Valued

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Social networking finally came of age connected the planet and leading to enormous wealth creation for Facebook employees and investors. Let me start with the simplest explanation for anybody who didn’t take economics in university (for my sins I took it for 7 years at UCSD and then University of Chicago). Even Sequoia.

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