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SoCal Venture Totals Slip, But IT Shines

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billion in 554 deals, invested -- the lowest quarter since 2005. invested in the quarter across 14 deals; Los Angeles had $105.78M in 22 deals; and Orange County had $94.89M in 10 deals. Among the hot spots in Southern California's venture market was clean technology and energy deals.

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Vizio and the Story of the Sleeping Giant

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I am currently at the annual VC in the OC program held in Irvine CA by OCTANe , an organization that connects people and ideas to resources and capital in Orange County. Vizio’s vision was to develop high quality, affordable HDTV’s for a mass market. In 2003, Vizio launched in Costco and then in Sams Club in 2005.

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Interview with Winston Damarillo, Morphlabs

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One of Southern California's successful, serial entrepreneurs is Winston Damarillo , who founded Gluecode, which he sold to IBM in 2005. Morphlabs is a cloud computing company, part of a good cluster of firms that we now have in Southern California, including 3Tera in Orange County, and Eucalyptus in Santa Barbara.

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Interview with Sherry Gunther, Masher Media

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We spoke with Sherry Gunther, CEO and founder of the firm, earlier this week to get a better look at the company and the dynamics behind the virtual world market nowadays--as well as why Sherry decided to make the jump from the world of entertainment media to online. Sherry Gunther: That's been the advantage of a maturing market space.

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Interview with Curtis Staker and William Goldbach, Confident Technologies

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We bought the assets from Vidoop, which was an LLC that was first established in late 2005 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Curtis Staker: I was actually invited into the opportunity by a pretty dynamic guy, Jay Kear, who is Orange County. What's the story behind the company, and your purchase of Vidoop? It's not used for authentication.