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Securing the Door: Amazon Buys Connected Doorbell Maker Ring

Xconomy

The two biggest acquisitions were Whole Foods last year and Zappos in 2009, according to Statista.) Santa Monica, CA-based Ring makes smart doorbells connected to cameras that alert homeowners when someone is at their door. That would make Amazon’s purchase of Ring the third largest in the Seattle e-commerce giant’s history.

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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

Both Sides of the Table

No blog post about how Tiger is crushing everybody because it’s deploying all its capital in 1-year while “suckers” are investing over 3-years can change this reality. In 2009 we could take a long time to review a deal. I think most people know we’re HQ’d in LA (Santa Monica to be exact) but we invest nationally and internationally.

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1 Twitter Tip You Can Fix Straight Away

Both Sides of the Table

If you search for her (as of July 10, 2009 at 5:45pm) you will get no result and the text, “did you mean Amanda Choong?&#. Search for Jen Raymond and you’ll get 2 of them – neither one is the Jen Raymond who works for Pfizer and lives in Santa Monica. First is Amanda Coolong of TechZulu. Second is Jen Raymond.

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Los Angeles Tech Launched - Hot List

SoCal CTO

This is the beginning of a content community that collects and organizes the best content from blogs and web sites. I'm happy to announce the launch of the Los Angeles Tech Content Community. The goal is to create a place where it's relatively easy to find current content and highly relevant content surrounding Los Angeles Technology.

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

Both Sides of the Table

In a way it feels intuitive to us – the readers of this blog – because we’re the tech crowd. source: Harris Interactive IM Shopping Poll (August 2009)). I suppose I could have skipped the whole rest of the blog post and just posted that. Enter phone calls. We love to streamline and text people.

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

Jason Nazar

As planned, I’ll be hosting monthly presentations/conversations each month throughout 2009 on different topics for entrepreneurs. Santa Monica Public Library (Auditorium) 601 Santa Monica Blvd. Santa Monica, CA 90401. This event is capped at 140 attendees. TO SIGN UP FOR THIS EVENT, CLICK HERE.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

Both Sides of the Table

Diverse search results include stream updates, blog posts, news articles, photos, videos (versus Twitter/FaceBook1 only). Self-reported 60mm daily unique as of Dec 2009, games played by 250mm people a month (AppData). -Real-time search engine. Competitors: OneRiot , Topsy , Crowdeye , Twitter Summize. DST invested $180mm last fall.