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Layoffs Hot Keyword for Second Half of January 2009

SoCal CTO

This hot list is based on various social signals of what people are writing about, reading, bookmarking, searching, etc. Last month we Launched Los Angeles Tech and in the announcement we provide the Hot List for the first half of January 2009. You can go to the Hot List post to see what was hot then.

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Last Exit Wall Street: 7 Considerations When Raising Venture Capital

From the Venture Trenches

Yet despite his ability to raise over $1 billion of private equity and to build an organization that is worth $5 billion as of this writing, Mason was shown the door. Filed under: Entrepreneurs , Founders , Fund Raising , Startup , Venture Capital , Wall Street Tagged: Anthem Venture Partners , Private equity , Ron Conway , Venture capital.

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Interview with Ramit Varma, Revolution Prep

socalTECH

My brother is actually at Anthem Ventures, working with Bill Woodward, and I was an intern there in business school. Over 12 months, until we were generating enough dollars of cash flow, we basically used that credit to write ourselves convenience checks, so we could pay our rent, pay for materials, and for those sort of things.

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

Jason Nazar

When he had the idea for his company, he didn’t write a long business plan or try to raise money to hire an agency to build a website for him. He worked for me at Docstoc for a brief stint (and did an awesome job) after being a writer at TechCrunch for a few years. It’s a chicken and egg problem.

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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. Investors attending included: Benchmark, New World Ventures, True Ventures, Anthem Venture Partners, Rustic Canyon Partners, IdeaLab, GRP Partners, Tech Coast Angels, Pasadena Angels, and Maverick Angels.