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Carving An Internet Niche With FamousBirthdays.com

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I love the web and love Internet marketing. We realized afer 2011 that we were spreading ourselves thin by trying to make five to ten websites great. Evan Britton: We had worked our tails off in 2011, but at the end of the year, all of our sites were flat. What''s your background and how did you decide to start the site?

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Fireside Chat with Cameron Olthuis | VP of Search and Social Strategies at CBS Interactive

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Where: The ROC (Real Office Centers) 604 Arizona Ave Santa Monica, CA 90401. Clicker was acquired by CBS Interactive in March 2011. Before that, Cameron was the Director of Marketing for ACS, a boutique consulting agency that specialized in web strategies. There will be plenty of FREE Pizza & Drinks !

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Los Angeles Startup Weekend August 2011 | The Complete Breakdown

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Friday evening, August 19th, rolled around and Startup Weekend LA was underway with attendees showing up at Coloft in Santa Monica around 6:00 pm and the classic Idealab keg there to quench everyone’s thirst.

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GumGum Makes Images Profitable for Publishers

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Think about how many images are on the web. Tanz has been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine “Young Millionaires of 2011 Special Report.” Perhaps one of the reasons it took 20 years for the commercial web to monetize images is because matching images with content is a very difficult. Millions, billions, trillions?

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Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Judges Include Mike Jones, CallFire, Idealab, Tech Coast Angels, Coloft

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So with out further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Fall 2011 Judges! Entries will be closed for company submissions at midnight of October 16th, 2011. When: Thursday, October 27th, 2011 – 6:00 p.m. CallFire.com is a small company with fewer than 20 employees located in beautiful Santa Monica. Event Details.

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Spotlight: LA Tech SuperDemo Announced! | Mike Jones Former Myspace CEO

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This included stabilizing a historically negative traffic and user trend, reducing the operational cost of the business by nearly 90 percent and pivoting the product from its legacy as a social network to a social entertainment destination. Entries will be closed for company submissions at midnight of October 16th, 2011.

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

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In growing numbers, Silicon Valley executives—long based in tech strongholds like Santa Clara and Palo Alto—are buying homes in Los Angeles, as the lines between the technology and entertainment businesses grow blurrier. the entertainment industry. WSJs Lauren Schuker Blum shows us around. Derek Wooden.