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Sorenson Media's Csathy Departs To New Digital Media Effort From Manatt

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According to Manatt, Csathy will head up a new effort called Manatt Digital Media Ventures , which will both make new digital media investments in companies, as well as provide professional services to the high tech industry. The new digital media venture from Manatt was created by Los Angeles partner T.

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Webb Alert Shuts Down

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Webb Alert , the high tech news focused video podcasting venture of G4 X-Play host Morgan Webb, is going offline, according to host Webb. Webb started the project in August of 2007, featuring on-site ads and a "tip jar" for viewers to contribute toward the show. Webb is based in Los Angeles. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Alex Schneider, Ventura Ventures Technology Center

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On Thursday, the City of Ventura is formally launching a new incubator, the Ventura Ventures Technology Center (www.v2tc.com), targeted at high tech businesses. The purpose was to deliver high value jobs. In 2007, we started to put some policy attached to the money, and created a jobs investment fund.

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Interview with Patrick Kennedy, Sidebar

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For this morning's interview, we thought we'd talk with Los Angeles-based Sidebar (www.sidebar.com), a venture backed startup in the mobile space, to learn more about what they are up to. They have hundreds of millions of dollars deployed against energy and digital and high tech investments. What is Sidebar all about?

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

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TWTFelipe and everybody like him who want to start high-tech, green tech or other scientific companies in the US should be encouraged to do so. In 2007 Salesforce.com wanted to buy Koral. Roughly 25 percent of successful high-tech start-ups over the last decade were founded or co-founded by immigrants,” said Litan.

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Surveying SoCal's M&A Landscape, with David Siemer

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One of the most frequent questions from high tech startups is: where''s my exit? If you rate the market on a one to ten scale, with one being 2002 and ten being 2007, we''re probably at around five or six. It continues to be somewhat surprising to me to see the number of angels who have been entering this space.

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Interview with Greg Brogger, SharesPost

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Yesterday, Santa Monica-based SharesPost (www.sharespost.com) launched a new service of particular interest to the venture capital and high tech startup market, a new, online service which facilitates the buying and selling of private company stock. Greg Brogger: I founded BrightHouse in the middle of 2007, along with Scott Painter.

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