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What Mattered in 2012: Kevin Winston, Digital LA

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What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year? The biggest news for Digital LA this year has been creating and spearheading Silicon Beach Fest, LA's first startup entertainment community festival in Santa Monica and Venice in June, 2012. What are the technologies, companies, or things we ought to watch in 2013?

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What Mattered in 2012: Mark Suster, GRP Partners

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What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year? The most significant news for GRP Partners in 2012 was the first close of our 4th venture fund. The biggest lesson I learned in 2012 was the importance of having a strong peer group and supportive venture community.

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What Mattered in 2012: Aber Whitcomb, io/LA

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What was the biggest news for you this year? We've also invented and patented a new technology called "MasterKey" that allows people to play our games natively on all relevant social and mobile platforms. Aside from the theoretical stuff, 2012 has been a year of disruption in many areas of technology.

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News Corp. In Repeat With Sale To Local Tech Firm

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That appears to be the story (again) today, after news that Ziff Davis , the publisher owned by Los Angeles-based J2 Global , has acquired IGN. Those numbers--and the story--seems to be almost an exact repeat of the story behind MySpace , which--also in 2005, in July--was acquired by News Corp. Does this sound familiar? Well, could be.

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What Mattered in 2012: Marc Averitt, Okapi Venture Capital

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What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year? I also think that 2012 will be "year of the accelerator" in retrospect with 500, YC, Science, Amplify, TechStars, LaunchPad L.A. Today, we're featuring Marc Averitt , co-founder and Managing Director of Okapi Venture Capital. and the like taking center stage.

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What Mattered in 2012: Howard Marks, StartEngine

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What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year? I think that the biggest news for StartEngine this year is our productivity. 2012 has been a remarkably interesting year in terms of developments in technology. Howard Marks is co-founder of Activision , and head of Los Angeles-based startup accelerator StartEngine.

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Friday Tech Video Roundup for Southern California for November 2, 2012

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All about startup Chewse, one of the Los Angeles startups to join the Fall 2012 class of 500Startups, and its group food ordering service. Video demo of Laffster's Mock The Vote political news app. Pitch video for Chewse. Laffster's Mock The Vote Demo. Darth Vader Goes To Disneyland. Walt Disney Co. just bought LucasFilm.