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JANUARY 15, 2010

Last night I attended the inaugural Open Angel Forum event started by Jason Calacanis , a fellow LA resident. Jason started the Open Angel Forum in response to his frustration that entrepreneurs were being charged by some angel organizations to present at their events. He wrote an excellent blog post on this topic.

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MAY 31, 2012

Los Angeles-based BUZZMEDIA , the venture backed entertainment and digital media publishing firm behind such sites as Celebuzz, Sterogum, and Buzznet, has acquired electronic music blog site XLR8R , the firm said today. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2010

The dinner parties now are filled with self-righteous angel investors bragging about how many deals they are in on. Logic tells me the following: It is hard to make money angel investing. The best angels will do very well just at the best real estate investors did well in good times and bad. And now everybody is an angel.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2011

A number of Southern California angel investors, including Jody Mulkey , the CIO of Shopzilla, have backed Scripted.com , a new online marketplace for freelance writers. Scripted.com allows online publishers to hire writers to develop blog posts and Twitter posts from an online marketplace. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

This is the fourth article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). Markets like these are very kind to angel investors because you get taken out early and see a nice pop on your investment. This is the same with angel investing. How’d that work out?

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 26, 2018

It’s no secret that Google has long planned to open a cloud region in Los Angeles. But as Google announced today , the new Los Angeles cloud region will go live in July, making it the company’s fifth region in the U.S. The company has long said that a second region on the U.S. West Coast was in the works, after all.

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MARCH 5, 2010

I attended the inaugural Open Angel Forum in Los Angeles back in January and wrote about it here. Jason Calacanis started this initiative in response to the pay-to-play network of angel events that he despised. The first event was a big success and brought out many of LA’s angel elite.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2014

And what’s up with this crazy new blog design? But for now … Every year we run a big VC, LP & Tech Summit in Los Angeles (this year downtown) to showcase the best of our community and invite others from around the country. I look forward to being back to blogging next week. You disappeared? I will tell more.

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MARCH 10, 2014

My blog had been looking tired for a year or two. I considered changing to a blog publishing platform that would allow me to change the visual design more easily myself. He wrote a nice blog post describing the project to redesign my website. He was able to take Jess’s design concepts and get them built into my blog.

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JUNE 12, 2013

Brunson’s short and to-the-point blog post, “ It’s Called Networking, Not Using.” One of the most common questions I hear from first-time entrepreneurs is, “How do I meet angels?” Think about it – who knows angels the best? It’s why I wrote the blog post on 50 Coffee Meetings.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Los Angeles-based Geni.com , the online family tree site, hinted this morning that it is about to release an iPhone application for the service. In a post on its blog, Geni said it was working on the "Next Stage of Genealogy" and showed a brief YouTube video with what appeared to be a Geni application running on an iPhone.

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JANUARY 26, 2013

One of the advantages of blogging, using social media, public speaking, etc as a VC is that you get a more nuanced view of these shifts by watching your own successes and failures. This is true on all of the major tech blogs. So your goal should be a steady stream of news across many different news outlets and your own blog.

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MAY 14, 2013

Los Angeles-based content delivery network provider NetDNA is powering a web performance optimization service for WordPress blog owners this morning. netdna wordpress optimization maxcdn service software blog' Financial impact of the deal were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 10, 2011

Los Angeles-based BUZZMEDIA , the online entertainment blog and web publisher, is trumpeting its ranking today by comScore as one of the sites with the highest young adult reach. BUZZMEDIA said that 18-34 year olds are more likely to be found on its site than on Facebook and other sites.

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MARCH 8, 2012

Uber , the technology-enabled, private car service which is upturning the taxi and limousine business nationwide, has set its sights on a new market: Los Angeles. Uber said Thursday that it has launched in Los Angeles, offering up its services which lets users summon a private car through their smartphone application.

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JULY 25, 2010

I recently read a book I’d highly recommend to every reader of this blog called “ Yes, 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive &# by Robert B. Every angel, seed investor or VC is influenced by who else is talking with you, who else is investing in you and they (we) are all influenced by who introduced us to you.

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JANUARY 8, 2013

Fanmix , a startup developing "social inbox" software to manage a user's social conversations on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, blogs, comment threads, and elsewhere, has spun out of Los Angeles-based Social Engine , according to Social Engine co-founder and new FanMix head Charlotte Genevier. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2011

In case you missed all the kerfuffle this weekend, I posted this blog post originally on TechCrunch. This is a blog post I really didn’t want to write. Still, as I’ve written in the past, what I love about blogging is the ability to have a public debate where we can all learn. I believe everything I wrote then.

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JANUARY 17, 2013

Wish you could automatically hear and follow the latest tracks people are talking about on music blogs? That's the whole idea behind BEASTMODE.FM , the newest creation of Matthias Galica, the Los Angeles entrepreneur who runs StartupDigestLA and heads up QR code startup ShareSquare.

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MARCH 6, 2011

I was an angel investor in his company, made a bunch of calls on his behalf and then I personally sent it out on AngelList. Because my wife is a superstar she published them all on a blog here along with much other wonderful type-A mom advice. He had just written another one of his way-over-the-top blog posts.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

I have Twitter chats, respond to blog comments, trade emails, respond to comments on This Week in VC. I remember! &# You’re the guy who built the Twitter plug-in for blogs. I speak at conferences where I might meet 75-100 people and have conversations. I do dinners too often as my waistline can attest. You get the picture.

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MAY 7, 2013

Quaterly said that Jobson, which creates and edits the blog Colossal , has joined the service, letting subscribers receive a package every three months with personally curated gifts of things Jobson finds inspiring. Jobson''s blog is focused on art, sculpture, photography, and design. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 3, 2013

PublishThis, which is based in Los Angeles and headed by Matt Kumin, said it has launched a new plugin which allows businesses to discover, curate, and distribute content via WordPress, and in particular WordPress.com''s "VIP" clients. publishthis wordpress plugin publishing content blog blogging partnership' READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Sean Percival, best known for founding Los Angeles tech blog lalawag, in addition to his work as an executive at MySpace, has booted up a new effort--Santa Monica-based Wittlebee , a new, online subscription service for baby supplies. The new effort emerged this week, revealing that it is backed by Science, Inc. , READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 18, 2014

near real-time automated intelligence gathering systems that scour public and private data sources like websites, blogs, social media and email to unearth information businesses can use for competitive advantage. Bitvore, led by Jeff Curie, said that it has developed a.

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JANUARY 3, 2011

To start off the year, we are publishing our first interview for the season with Jamie Siminoff , the CEO of Los Angeles-based Unsubscribe.com , an online service which helps you unsubscribe from unwanted newsletters and email lists. in funding from Charles River Ventures, First Round Capital, DFJ Frontier, and angel investors.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Los Angeles-based HipGeo , the developer of location-aware mobile apps that allow users to log their travels, is announcing today that it has partnered with Vagabondish , a news website focused on offbeat travel news and advice. Financial details of the partnership were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2014

The trends are well understood: more angels, more seed funds, more crowdsourcing and so forth. I have blogged about some of the downside consequences of the changes and the private information I have says the consequences are much worse than is reported in the press since few people publicly talk about. There is a reason for this.

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JUNE 12, 2024

Recently I had the pleasure of speaking with Ian on This Week in Startups.

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JULY 24, 2012

I wrote a blog post on how to work with lawyers at a startup nearly two-and-a-half years ago. This was 2005 when I had no exits under my belt, no blogs … nobody was looking. And I’m delighted to see a bold move by Cooley in getting behind Los Angeles as well. It was very widely read. Startup-focused.

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JANUARY 30, 2019

The Los Angeles-based company has steadily expanded its retail and lifestyle empire through subscription boxes, video… and even an augmented reality app. From a newsletter and blog to the subscription box to the launch of live programming last year. For brands, the pitch is a new way to find customers and engage with them.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2011

According to a statement on Twitter's blog, it shut down the access, for "violating our policies." The move is not the first battle between Twitter and a Southern California Twitter-focused startup; last May, fellow Twitter advertising startup Ad.ly, based in Los Angeles, faced a similar situation with Twitter when it banned in-stream ads.

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JANUARY 16, 2013

Los Angeles-based venture firm GRP Partners announced Wednesday that it has hired a new, entrepreneur-in-residence for the company, Sam Rosen, who was formerly the founder of SpeakerGram in New York City, was involved in 500Startups in San Francisco, and also has been involved with ScoreBig. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 25, 2011

They know this model of YouTube production & distribution better than anybody else that I’ve met in my 5 years in Los Angeles. And anybody who follows this blog knows that I believe television disruption has already begun and it is more likely to resemble Internet content than streaming long-form content to our living rooms.

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JULY 17, 2013

It looks like the battle between Los Angeles e-commerce startup Beachmint and technology blog PandoDaily is flaring up into a major firestorm, over the accuracy of a story posted a couple of weeks ago by the tech blog.

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APRIL 4, 2012

Los Angeles-based WittleBee , the children's clothing site headed by Sean Percival, announced Wednesday afternoon that it has raised $2.5M Pervical--who was previously at MySpace--is also known for founding LA technology blog Lalawag. in a seed funding round. The round was led by Rincon Ventures, and also included. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 29, 2011

Los Angeles-based AudioMicro , the startup headed by Ryan Born, said Friday morning that it has partnered with Microsoft. Separately, AudioMicro revealed Friday that it ha added Sean Percival as an advisor; Percival is VP of Online Marketing for MySpace, and is also known for his founding of LA technology culture blog Lalawag.

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