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Why I Invested in Gogii (textPlus) – My First Ever Later Stage Deal

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Scott was one of the first employees at Activision and was VP of their Studio Business. He also was an executive talent at Activision having designed & managed two products (Mechwarrior 2 and ? They want to build one of LA’s premier technology & games businesses – what I call “a patron company.&#.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. Either it’s a bunch of pictures or screen shots or it’s a bunch of words.

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

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We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Winter Presenting Companies at Caltech

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For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. Everything happens in the browser (no software to download) and the finished product looks amazing on large screens! in Mechanical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology.

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REACH Connected Future: Gaming Recap

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As you might recall, our first installation of REACH , was back in November and covered disruptive technology in the gaming industry. From investments and business, Robin Kaminsky , Entrepreneur in Residence at Rustin Canyon Partners, and former EVP of Publishing at Activision. Mixing History with Technology.

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