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What Mattered in 2012: Kevin Winston, Digital LA

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Kevin Winston , is the organizer of Digital LA , the popular and widely attended networking organization for the Los Angeles startup, web, movie, music, marketing, and social media community. We'll head back to the beach on the first week of summer for a week-long Silicon Beach Fest in Santa Monica June 2013.

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CityGrid LA Hackathon

SoCal Tech Calendar

Friday, April 27, 2012 -- CityGrid LA Hackathon. Santa Monica, CA The future of the World Wide Web is local.

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LIVE Tonight | LA AppShow

Tech Zulu Event

Last night we got the opportunity for the first time to hear in depth on what a few of the leaders in the LA incubator/accelerators space foresee coming down the pipe for 2012. The Event has travel around the country participating in such areas as San Francisco, Las Vegas, Chicago, and Santa Monica.

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Startup Weekend LA | Recap February 2012

Tech Zulu Event

This past SWLA (February 24-26) was like non other and the 5th event to take place at Coloft here in Santa Monica. The 1st place winner was SnazzyRoom, an online styling tool for mixing and matching items on the web ( SnazzyRoom.com ). Startup Weekend LA has grown to become a very special event here in Los Angeles.

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Why The Growth Of The Internet Is Driving EdgeCast's Revenues

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What is it about the content delivery network market which has enabled Santa Monica-based EdgeCast to go from startup to over $100M in revenues in only a few, short years? You need a CDN to improve the performance of your content, especially as the web is getting heavier, more complicated, and there's more rich media.

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Carving An Internet Niche With FamousBirthdays.com

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I love the web and love Internet marketing. So, at the beginning of 2012, we picked a website that we owned, to make it awesome. Although the web offers amazing chances for organic growth, you have to do something amazing. It''s much easier to monetize, than it is to drive traffic on the web and start a web site.

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

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This was the first in her string of web properties. Sam is the managing director of Launchpad LA and we were about to pick our 2012 class of entrepreneurs. She learned at the kitchen table as so many spouses do. After some encouragement from him she decided to launch her own website – Recycled Bride. She’s infectious.”

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