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Three Southern California Firms Building Blog Empires

socalTECH

News today that AOL has acquired technology news blog TechCrunch highlights the growing place of blog publishers in the online world. Here are three, Southern California blog networks which have quietly growing their network of properties: BUZZMEDIA. Did we miss your favorite, Southern California blog empire? Let us know!

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

Both Sides of the Table

He’s also candid, humble and helpful. I don’t do advertising on my blog, but I thought it was worth mentioning Ryan in particular because he has an alternate model for doing a startup. Pricing engine helps publishers ascertain ad inventory pricing by analyzing ad transaction data from the market/exchanges. MetaMarkets.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

Both Sides of the Table

Diverse search results include stream updates, blog posts, news articles, photos, videos (versus Twitter/FaceBook1 only). Current round: $5.0mm in Series A by NEA and Anthem Venture Partners. -Real-time search engine. Search leverages selective filtering via XMPP versus site indexing; only real-time search player to do so.

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The Challenges (& Opportunities) of Starting a Tech Company in LA

Jason Nazar

In LA there has typically been a small handful of firms actively making investments in tech, they include: Rustic Canyon , GRP Parners , Clearstone Venture Partners , Redpoint Ventures , Mission Ventures , Anthem Venture Partners , Greycroft , Crosscut , Palomar Ventures , and Rincon Ventures. It’s a chicken and egg problem.

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Venture Group’s Krenn Sees Improving VC Deals for SD Tech Startups

Xconomy

As head of the non-profit organization supporting local startups, Krenn says the venture group will help to bring over 150 VCs to San Diego this year, including many from Silicon Valley. I haven’t seen it this good since 2007,” he says. That is an insane data point.” Venture data, however, only partly support Krenn’s exhuberance.

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Silicon Beach Fest Celebrates Tech Startups and Hollywood in LA | Pics, Highlights and What’s Next!

Tech Zulu Event

If u see an article or write a blog post, email us or leave a comment below with a link to your story and we’ll add it in. Abbot Kinney Venice Blog: The New West Coast Digital & Creative Hubs: Venice and Santa Monica. . & #celebrity to pull off anything! RT @urlgrl @DigitalLA had an amazing time at #SBF. Geeks Unite.