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TZ Presents: ‘Nice Guys’ DO Finish First In Business | Fireside Chat With Greg Cargill

Tech Zulu Event

TechZulu is excited to invite you to a fireside chat with Greg Cargill, VP of Client Services and Social Media at BLITZ. Greg will share his experience on how to Successfully Build and Sell an Effective Social Media Marketing Agency. There will be plenty of FREE Pizza & Drinks!

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Mark Suster: New, $200M Fund, and GRP's New Name, Upfront Ventures

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Our 2008 fund is also performing incredibly strong. In a world where we have blogs, social media, sites like TheFunded, and a variety of other sources where entrepreneurs can figure out what other people think about VCs, being open and transparent matters. How has your broad social media presence affected your dealflow?

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How TaskUs Is Powering LA's Technology Startup Boom

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We''d gone to high school together in Santa Monica, and we were both very entrepreneurial in high school. In 2008, we started to throw around ideas, and eventually settled on this one. So, we wondered what we could do at a low price point, things like transcribing voicemail, things like social media sentiment analysis.

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Los Angeles Speaking Series #3: “Mistakes People Make Before Starting a New Business”

Jason Nazar

These are FREE events, and my goal is to help contribute to the Los Angeles Technology Scene by bringing together various entrepreneurs, angel investors, venture capitalists, social media experts, and professionals in the technology field. These events are put on in conjunction with our friends at DealMaker Media. Cost: FREE.

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Recycled Bride Wants You To Save On Your Big Day | Wed Without Tears

Tech Zulu Event

Recycled Bride was founded in 2009 in Santa Monica, CA. Tracy was married in 2008, and found the wedding planning process frustrating and expensive. When was Recycled Bride founded and where is it based? Who are the founders and what are their backgrounds? Business Model? What inspired you? Any funding yet?

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

SoCal Delicious

Demand Media is an online media company operating two strategically-linked businesses: an integrated content and social media platform, and registrar solutions. The CitizenNet platform helps you measure, analyze, and automate social media marketing and engagement. It filed for an IPO on August 6th.

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Tech Titans Peter Thiel, Matt Jacobson, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Mich Mathews, Elon Musk Buy Homes in Los Angeles

SoCal Delicious

There is a feeling that techies are the new celebrities," says Eric Kuhn, an agent who heads the social-media department at United Talent Agency. with her husband, Douglas, a former Google chief information officer, in late 2008. Prices are soaring in the beachfront communities tech types favor, and rents in these.