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Interview with Peter Lee, Baroda Ventures

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He was basically active investing until 2004 and 2005, and then started getting much more involved in the non-profit space. Peter Lee: Essentially, we are Southern California focused, through we will be looking at out of SoCal investments--we're not closing our doors to those, but our interest is really in focusing down here.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

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Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Putting customers first. Legendary customer support. Instead of making a few dollars per sale and hoping for thousands of sales, you sell to only a few customers, and charge much higher rates.

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Off To SXSW, Our Schedule, And A Special Thanks

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The time has come for us to say goodbye SoCal (temporarily of course) and HELLO Austin! Meebo - Founded in 2005, Meebo enables real-time social interactions with instant messaging and group chat at meebo.com and on partner sites across the Web. Custom ad deals and partnerships. Headquartered in San Francisco, Justin.tv

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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map

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Even though their business model was tweaked a little while ago to give customers additional leniency, the business is still expecting to break $100 million in revenue this year, up from $25 million in 2010. A SoCal native and graduate of both UCLA and USC, Richard Rosenblatt led the growth of MySpace from an unknown to a household name.

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Social Networking and Business Value

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In 2005, Majid coauthored "Data Strategy" a book designed to help streamline information management within organizations. He handles strategic partnerships and enterprise agreements with large corporate customers, as well as serving as the company's in-house general counsel.

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Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles

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The city has, however, quietly been home to some of the most successful online companies to date, including CitySearch (sold to Ticketmaster for $260 million in 1998), Overture (acquired by Yahoo for $2 billion in 2003), eHarmony and LowerMyBills (bought by Experian for $330 million in 2005). Register Now! Be extra productive. Learn more.

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How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener

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Use possible input ($errSrc, $errMsg, …) from the caller to customize the error page. /requestHandler.php (Warning: untested and simplified code snippets below) /* Initialization */ $serverName = strtolower($_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"]); $canonicalServerName = "sebastians-pamphlets.com"; $scheme = "[link] $rootUri = $scheme.$canonicalServerName;

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