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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Los Angeles-based Aggregage (www.aggregage.com) is looking to help aggregate the content across multiple blog publishing sites, and curate that information into specific, B2B niche vertical web sites. In 2005, YouTube exploded onto the scene, and I took the ideas we had been working on and started--along with J.D.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I first met Ethan in 2005. And I certainly didn’t want him having to trapse up-and-down Sand Hill Road informing every VC of his next idea. I think it’s a beautifully designed site and product. I was preparing to move back to the US from London after 11 years abroad. So there you have it.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

Cramster.com operates an online community where students can share notes, practice exams, and help others through difficult homework problems; the site targets both college and high school students. Reshef is the owner and chairman of Israeli education firm the Kidum Group, which he sold in 2005 to learning firm Kaplan. READ MORE>>

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MAY 11, 2011

We're the only site that is specialized in people over the age of 35 in that area. How did you end up starting the site? Elizabeth Amini: I actually ran into him in 2005, when he was a keynote speaker at a conference. Out of over every ten people who see the site, one or two are really gravitate or are attached to it.

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DECEMBER 17, 2012

Prior to founding MuckerLab, Erik was most recently at Harrison Metal Capital where he helped lead one of the most successful seed-stage venture capital firms in Silicon Valley. Our Panelist Include: Erik Rannala , Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ MuckerLab.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Taher tells us about his journey from Silicon Valley to Southern California, the inspiration behind the site, and where he hopes to take the business next. One of the previous companies I worked on we sold to Microsoft in 2005, and I then spent some time at Microsoft to get that company integrated. What's the idea behind FavRav?

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MAY 27, 2009

He was basically active investing until 2004 and 2005, and then started getting much more involved in the non-profit space. In general, Southern California is less capiatlized from the venture perspective versus the opportunities here--there's lots of good stuff going on. where do you see the VC industry here now?

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MARCH 10, 2010

Make sure to checkout the updated SMCH3 site as they have tons of great info. WillYouTrend.com is a site set out on the mission to inspire us all to be great, influential people. is the leading live video site on the Web, enabling users to create real-time connections with others around the world. Media Temple hosts websites.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures (www.crosscutventures.com) is one of the newest venture capital funds in the area, and has quietly been working on funding local companies over the last year. We spent six plus years at a local firm, Palomar Ventures, doing Series A and Series B investments.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 14, 2009

WillYouTrend.com is a site set out on the mission to inspire us all to be great, influential people. VentureDea l - VentureDeal is a venture capital database that provides the latest information about venture-backed technology companies, venture capital firms and transactions in the United States.

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JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital. Topics we discussed in the first 45 minutes of the video include: What is VC like in NY? We discussed NY vs. Silicon Valley and NY vs. Boston.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 8, 2008

We spoke with the two founders of the firm, Rob Angarita and Aaron Hawkey , about what the site is all about, and the interesting way in which they connected with their angel investor. After that, Rob and I took a year or so to gain traction, and in 2005 we committed full time to the business.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 29, 2010

WillYouTrend.com is a site set out on the mission to inspire us all to be great, influential people. VentureDea l - VentureDeal is a venture capital database that provides the latest information about venture-backed technology companies, venture capital firms and transactions in the United States.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

One of the big, open source successes in both Southern California and the software world was Gluecode Software , which was based in Los Angeles and acquired by IBM in 2005. Adam also had a stint at Mission Ventures, and ran worldwide sales for open source middleware at IBM. So far so good.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

A quarterly event series seeking to dive deep into what comes next in technology, and giving you the opportunity to experience it first hand with the gadgets on site. From 1997 through 2005, Robin was a marketing executive and general manager at PepsiCo. TechZulu & Gadget Review present REACH.

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JANUARY 6, 2010

WillYouTrend.com is a site set out on the mission to inspire us all to be great, influential people. VentureDea l - VentureDeal is a venture capital database that provides the latest information about venture-backed technology companies, venture capital firms and transactions in the United States.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

billion to Yahoo, we did CitySearch, we invested in the largest travel site in Europe, called LastMinute.com, and also CyberSource--a number of very early stage, Internet companies. What's your thoughts on the local venture market? An A-round investment in the late 90's, or even in 2005/2006, or 2007, was a $5-8M check.

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MAY 15, 2010

It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. I’d link to it but it’s behind a paywall.

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MARCH 25, 2016

The questions that a VC mulls before writing a check are precisely the questions you should be asking yourself. But this isn’t likely to be a VC-backable business (which to be clear is totally ok). Marketing with long payback is precisely what requires venture capital. Market Size. We did the planning work up front.

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socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

That was five or six years ago, 2005 or so. This last month was really building out the detail of the product, and launching our web site. TechStars and YCombinator really have pioneered the model. If you talk about Paul Graham and David Cohen, they've pivoted to the model there are at now.

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MARCH 1, 2010

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). And what happened in L.A. Okay, thats AdSense.

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MAY 6, 2012

Charlie Capen is co-founder of HowToBeADad.com , an entertainment site and dad blog for “parents, soon-to-be parents and people who have no desire to procreate, whatsoever.” The site features running commentary and visual diagrams on the idiosyncrasies of fatherhood, parenting missteps and his own adjustment to having children.

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