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Slickdeals Taps OpenX, Twitter Vets For Board

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Los Angeles-based Slickdeals , the online coupon and deal site led by Josh Meyers, has tapped two technology veterans for its board. Slickdeals said Thursday that it has named Tim Cadogan , the CEO of Pasadena''s OpenX , along with Nathan Hubbard , head of commerce at Twitter , to its board of directors. READ MORE>>.

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Launchpad LA – 10 Startup Companies to Watch

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We had software executives from Google, Yahoo!, The team has experience in building startups (Doug Ludlow was formerly a founder in a TechStars company) and have all worked at local Los Angeles based startups. DataPop : DataPop was founded by performance marketing veterans from Yahoo!

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. Many people don’t realize that the majority of the monetization of the Internet originated in Los Angeles but was perfected in Silicon Valley. LA By The Numbers.

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How YP.com Is Growing A Giant Tech Team In Glendale

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One of the largest concentrations of technical talent in Los Angeles is in Glendale, at YP (www.yp.com) -- staffed with a surprising number of Los Angeles startup vets. I had also spent five years at Overture and Yahoo, going back to the Goto.com days. We''re coining the term search commerce.

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How FatCloud Is Bringing NoSQL To The World of Microsoft

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One of the startups in that area--born out of a.NET development organization here in Los Angeles--is FatCloud (www.fatcloud.com), which develops a NoSQL database which ties directly into Microsoft''s SQL Server database. The company was actually born in Los Angeles, out of a company which was a.NET development organization.

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7 New Business Ideas Whose Time Has Come and Gone

Startup Professionals Musings

As an angel investor, I sometimes worry that all the viable unique ideas must already be taken. By definition, these are all really thinly disguised Internet search engines, provided by or competing against the 500 or more existing search engines already out there, including Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo. Today there are well over 2.2

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How YP Is Growing A Giant Tech Team In Glendale

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One of the largest concentrations of technical talent in Los Angeles is in Glendale, at YP -- staffed with a surprising number of Los Angeles startup vets. I had also spent five years at Overture and Yahoo, going back to the Goto.com days. How did what was a staid publisher of phone books become a hotbed of online talent?