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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

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In the media NYC is “hot” right now yet having just spent 6 days in NY I heard many similar stories as I get in LA: not enough VC and hard to get great tech resources. We discussed NY vs. -Recent competitive financings closed by Gilt Groupe ($35mm in 05/2010), OKL (undisclosed value in 12/2009) and Ideeli ($20mm in 12/2009).

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What Mattered in 2010: Greg Martin, Archer Venture Capital

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Coming off a very successful exit with Networks in Motion at the end of 2009, 2010 has been a very exciting year for several of my companies, Socialvibe, 2tor, Leadpoint, Webvisible and Impact Radius. Using the social web to fill excess capacity that exists in nearly every business was one of the best uses of the web that I've seen.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

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We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. Self-reported 60mm daily unique as of Dec 2009, games played by 250mm people a month (AppData). Online service offering privacy certification for web sites. This is astounding and myopic in my view.

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Interview with Brandon Hance, Audiolife

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For today's interview, we spoke with Brandon Hance, the firm's founder, about how his startup is helping musicians to sell both digital and physical merchandise on the web. We've got a suite of on-demand, manufacturing tools which means they never have to spend money upfront. Is this installed software, or web technology?

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Thanks to socalTECH's Sponsors!

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We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. tech, new media, entertainment and consumer industries. Dealmaker Media www.undertheradarblo g.com is presenting their 13th Under the Radar conference in Mountain View, CA on. April 24, 2009. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. innovation.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

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Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague Posted on 12 January, 2010 The bot playground commonly refered to as “social media&# is responsible for shitloads of absurd cretinism. Or leave the Web, respectively pay the publishers.

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Align Your Startup With Today’s Customer Paradigm

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The customer base is no longer a mass audience that can be driven by mass media, but a dynamic network of individual customers who interact with each other, and expect to interact with you as a business. Join in conversations with customers who are already shaping brand perception and sharing their ideas and opinions on the Web.

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