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Eight Repeat Entrepreneurs To Watch In SoCal

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OpenCandy / Darrius Thompson - Thompson and a team with roots at DivX is taking on the open source software recommendation market with OpenCandy, which helps software developers monetize their open source, and also connects advertisers with users of relevant products. which he sold to AOL.

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SoCal's Instagram Startups Duck Impact, As Users Rebel

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Instagram clarified its position on ownership of photos Tuesday, saying its intent was not to sell user photos, or use them in advertising. Munson did say that it's a logical move by Instagram towards Facebook's advertising model.

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Hard to Build Large Advertising Support Business

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Found this via Ben Kuo - The math behind Internet advertising businesses The advertising equivalence principle? It’s a non-trivial feat to develop a $100MM annual revenue business through online advertising. billion monthly page views and over 300 million monthly unique visitors creating 25 page views per user.

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ThinkNear Among SoCal's First Accelerator Exits

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The acquisition Tuesday of ThinkNear , the mobile advertising firm headed by Eli Portnoy, looks to be among the first accelerator-incubated companies in Southern California. for ThinkNear Tuesday morning, and make the company part of its mobile, local advertising group. TeleNav said it would pay $22.5M

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Once again, we'd like to thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on Southern California's high tech news and companies. Advertisers. SoCal IP Law Group LLP - IP Counselors For Technology Companies. Tags: advertisers sponsors. They include: Sponsors. Helping entrepreneurs succeed.

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Pandora IPO's SoCal Connections

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Kraft co-founded Pandora with Tim Westergren when it was known as Savage Beast, and is now COO of Pasadena-based UberMedia , the Twitter client and advertising startup headed by Idealab's Bill Gross; Gotcher sits on Pandora's board of directors.

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BMW Targets Instagrammers With LA Auto Show Contest

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In an example of the rising interest of big advertisers in mobile social sharing site Instagram , auto maker BMW is dangling the chance to be the official BMW Instagram photographer to Instagram users who snap and post photos of local BMWs.