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Best of 2012: Dollar Shave Club's Launch Video, Red Bull Stratos

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What were the best ads for 2012? According to the Wall Street Journal today, Santa Monica-based Red Bull 's sponsorship of Felix Baumgartner's skydive from space, and fellow Santa Monica company Dollar Shave Club 's launch video made the list. Dollar Shave Club is the Science Inc.

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Next MediaLeaders Networking Event

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Wednesday, August 1, 2012 -- Next MediaLeaders Networking Event. re hosting a Santa Monica networking event at the Sonoma Wine Garden to celebrate this great weather. This spacious venue has tons of outdoor seating and lots of areas to mingle and chat about all things tech, marketing and advertising. If you look close?

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CityGrid LA Hackathon

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Friday, April 27, 2012 -- CityGrid LA Hackathon. Santa Monica, CA The future of the World Wide Web is local. See [link] (more)

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Mahalo Cuts Staff

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Santa Monica-based Mahalo, the search and news site run by Jason Calacanis, has cut 10 percent of the firm's staff, Calacanis said in a post on his blog Wednesday. According to Calacanis, the firm is "fairly certain" that advertising for the next two years will be "severely depressed." READ MORE>>

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Mark Suster, Nely Galan to Keynote Silicon Beach Fest

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Silicon Beach Fest takes place June 19-22, 2013 in Santa Monica. Silicon Beach Fest covers more than 30 topics that uniquely reflect LA’s strengths, including: Investors, Entrepreneurship, Entertainment, Games, Social Media, Digital Content, Advertising Technology, Design UX/UI, Fashion, and more. In 2012 over $3.2

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Silicon Beach Fest Celebrates Tech Startups and Hollywood in LA | Pics, Highlights and What’s Next!

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The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.

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How This Entrepreneur Raised $28,000 Using Airbnb to Fund Her Startup

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Sam is the managing director of Launchpad LA and we were about to pick our 2012 class of entrepreneurs. Second, she sells advertising, which given her tight demographic and the big spending that comes when one is planning a wedding she can monetize really well. How’s that for an ex painter? She’s infectious.”

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