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Solarflare Promotes Engineering VP

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Shamlou was most recently the firm's VP of VLSI Design, and has also served at Starport Systems, Mindspeed and Conexant. Solarflare is a venture-backed developer of 10 Gigabit Ethernet and controller chips. According to the firm, Shamlou will be responsible for all of the firm's engineering functions.

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Interview with Todd Jerry, Marmol Radziner

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Many local entrepreneurs might know Todd Jerry , formerly a venture capitalist at Anthem Venture Partners. Todd has a unique view, having worked both on the venture and high technology investing side at Anthem, as well as the architecture and construction industry now. That's developed into new business in and of it self.

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

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Founded in January 2010 by Stephen Hood (ex-Delicious head of product), Dave Baggeroer (Stanford’s Institute of Design), and Josh Whiting (ex-senior engineer at Delicious and Craigslist). Premium invitation cards and event stationary that is designed online for online distribution or paper print. Founded by Shawn Gold (ex-MySpace CMO).

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Why Technology is Driving More Urban Renewal

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And it is one of the reasons that NYC is developing a vibrant technology community. And costume & set designers. In LA the VC shift is clearly to Santa Monica / Venice, home of Rustic Canyon, Greycroft, Anthem and just about every incubator (Amplify, Launchpad, Mucker, Science). I’m sure there’s a lot of truth to that.

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3 Things You (Probably) Don’t Know about Indiana Innovation

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Indiana is home to the global headquarters for Anthem, Cook Medical, Dow AgroSciences, and Eli Lilly and Company, as well as the North American headquarters for Roche Diagnostics. These institutes of higher learning are encouraging innovators to develop work to impact the everyday lives of people around the world. The results?

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

Jason Nazar

In the bay area it’s quite common for the entrepreneurs starting a company to be developers or technologists who can build the first versions of their products. He just pounded out design and code for a few weeks and got Plancast up on the web and users adopting his product right away. It’s a chicken and egg problem.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

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2.6mm in Series A : Canaan , Anthem. Quirky - Platform facilitating collaborative design of consumer products through an online community. My take was that this follows three trends: a) customer involvement in product design, b) mass customization [e.g. It’s core platform stuff. Other Deals. billion valuation.