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OCTOBER 9, 2012

The bible of entertainment industry news, Variety , has been acquired by Internet entrepreneur Jay Penske, via his firm, Penske Media , the companies said today. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Penske is the son of automotive magnate Roger Penske, owner of automotive firm Penske Corporation.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2011

The rankings came out Thursday from Seeking Omega, which said it used technology from Lithium, review of entrepreneurs on TheFunded, and individual surveys to rank the VCs. Mark Suster of GRP Partners has ranked number two on a list of "Most Respected Venture Capitalists". READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 26, 2018

Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. You'll be able to browse all of those contributions here. Our first is with Andy Wilson of the Alliance for SoCal Innovation. Happy Holidays!

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JANUARY 29, 2020

The logic behind this, is that 80 percent of our bets are founder bets, and we believe we need to use every resource we can to help entrepreneurs be successful in hitting milestones. What drove your decision to focus on mental health and this aspect for entrepreneurs? It's a comprehensive bucket.

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AUGUST 30, 2011

For today's Insights and Opinions piece, we turn again to prolific blogger and local venture capitalist Mark Suster of GRP Partners , for his insights into how a wider experience--beyond the confines of the startup world--can help you as an entrepreneur. Esther was talking about problems and entrepreneurs as far away as Russia.

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MAY 11, 2009

Television celebrity Brooke Burke and Internet entrepreneur Lisa Rosenblatt said Monday that they have acquired ModernMom.com , an online site focused on mothers, and relaunched the site--powered in part by content from Demand Media, the online media firm headed by Rosenblatt's husband, Richard Rosenblatt. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 18, 2010

Looking to spur a show of company spirit, Jared Reitzin the CEO and founder of email and mobile marketing firm mobileStorm , is dangling $1,000 to any employee who gets a tattoo of the company's logo, and allows him to blog about it--and has tattooed his company logo on his own ankle, in his own show of dedication to his firm. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 28, 2010

It's almost always in the context of another entrepreneur that starting a new web endeavor. The 3 methods are so dead simple and obvious that this blog post will likely come across as pointless to anyone in the internet space. Ryan gives us The 3 Ways To Get Traffic To Your Website.

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JUNE 27, 2013

We caught up with Mark Suster , one of Upfront''s General Partners and a well known blogger and technology personality, the new fund, and how his blogging is now driving the firm''s investment activity. Being so open, when entrepreneurs think about capital, we want to be top of mind. Tell us about the new fund?

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MARCH 19, 2012

What's the biggest thing you've learned so far as an entrepreneur? Tim Sae Koo: As a first time entrepreneur, I've had a fair share of failures along the way. If you have a friend in the system, you're automatically in, if no you can email admin@hypemarks.com for an invite.

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MAY 4, 2011

Norgard is a serial entrepreneur, having co-founded NewRoo (acquired by Fox Interactive Media/MySpace) and co-founding Twitter advertising startup Ad.ly. But, I'd like to extend a personal invite to socalTECH readers, because I've been reading the blog forever, and if they click on this link they can access Namesake directly.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Calacanis--who started the group as an outgrowth of his crusade against pay-to-pitch angel groups like The Keiretsu Forum--said in his blog today that he has signed up Matt Coffin , Sky Dayton , and Bill Woodward as members of his group.

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DECEMBER 12, 2013

Our target market is entrepreneurs, creatives, and developers. Our services range from basically any platform service to enable an entrepreneur or developer or creative, to get online with a website, or do things like set up a blog. First, for those not familiar with DreamHost, talk about what your company does?

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OCTOBER 5, 2009

The effort highlights and ongoing debate between angel groups who do not charge entrepreneurs to present, and angel groups--and commercial ventures--who regularly charge a steep fee for presentations. In Calacanis' personal blog, he called for bloggers to launch a public campaign against Keiretsu.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2012

It's like WordPress, but instead of blogging, it provides an online community, which is self-hosted. The other reason for building it, is LA is crapped on all the time from a press perspective and entrepreneur perspective. Early on in college, we built a product called Blog Hoster, which allowed you to create white label blogs.

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MARCH 5, 2009

High profile entrepreneur Jason Calacanis, CEO of Los Angeles-based Mahalo , emailed an impassioned note to his mailing list Thursday, which he also posted to his personal blog, detailing how one of the firm's employees has just been sentenced to 48 months in jail for computer hacking.

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Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

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. Entrepreneurs that start companies in LA are often focused on revenue and business models. That’s typically not the case in Los Angeles.

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JANUARY 9, 2014

It''s not just coupons and deals, we''ve also launched a blog with helpful shopping information, which helps introduce consumers to new brands they might not have heard of before. entrepreneur startup interview shopping deals coupon interface user chippmunk nickerson brian' READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 10, 2011

Since then, the two left to start a brand new startup, SendLove.to (www.sendlove.to), which launched Tuesday, focused on allowing users to rate public figures in news stories, blogs, and elsewhere. As you know, the comments at the foot of every blog out there that is really kind of a big waste of time. Who do you see using this most?

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APRIL 14, 2011

I ended up passing on the Twitter investment, but I put out a blog post at the time--I was working for CBS--asking if someone would want to build it, and a kid named Soren MacBeth emailed me back saying he'd build it, which started the idea of StockTwits. Generally, I make those when I sleep.

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DECEMBER 10, 2010

Calacanis launched his JasonNation newsletter back in 2008, when he decided to stop blogging publicly but still wanted to share his thoughts and opinions with his contacts. Calacanis said in November that his LAUNCH conference will afford startup with the ability to reach investors and launch products to the world.

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JULY 14, 2009

So how does an entrepreneur based in SoCal get the attention of VC funds today? Contrary to the common belief that Southern California "should be an easy place to raise money" with all of its' entertainment and real estate wealth, it is a very difficult place to raise Venture Capital for technology start-ups.

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JULY 16, 2009

Jim is very active helping Southern California's aspiring entrepreneurs, and has been instrumental in helping to promote the technology industry here. Jim has been giving helpful advice to CEOs recently on his blog , and we're sharing his recent top ten list of board meetings do's and don'ts for CEO.

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AUGUST 28, 2012

Entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs. blog comments powered by Disqus. Blog Software. Cloud storage. Enterprise. Acquisition. Venture capital. Developers. Infographics. Management. Electric cars. Hybrid cars. Renewable energy. Streaming media. Advertise on VentureBeat. most popular. most shared. October 20, 2012 1:57 PM.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

In a way, we're solving the issue that faces blogs. As anyone who is familiar with blogging knows, the hardest part is getting a viewer base. When you were coming out of UCLA, did you imagine that you'd be an entrepreneur? I've always saw myself as starting a company, although not being an entrepreneur to become rich.

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DECEMBER 6, 2019

Finally, what's been your biggest lesson as an entrepreneur? Anyone can find our pone number, call us, and we can help them, read our blog and content, as we're really trying to educate consumers and equip them with the resources they need to be successful in renovation. Jon Grishpul: That's good question. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 29, 2012

Matt MacNaughton: We hadn't decided if we wanted to raise a Series A, but we were approached by Sara Weinheimer of Golden Seeds, who was really interested in what we were doing, and talked to us about her group, Golden Seeds is focused on companies where there is a female co-founding entrepreneur.

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JULY 20, 2015

We spoke with Farhad Mohit , the CEO of Flipagram and a successful serial entrepreneur (having founded Bizrate, which later became Shozilla, and was sold to Scripps), to learn more about the story behind Flipagram and the vision behind its app. So, I took at look at it. It's boom, boom, boom, and that creates a story.

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JULY 20, 2015

We spoke with Farhad Mohit , the CEO of Flipagram and a successful serial entrepreneur (having founded Bizrate, which later became Shozilla, and was sold to Scripps), to learn more about the story behind Flipagram and the vision behind its app. So, I took at look at it. It's boom, boom, boom, and that creates a story.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

We've been two years in development, and are excited to provide a revolutionary platform for web sites, blogs, and social sites to create and grow their international business. It also supports blogs. There's lots of media and blogs in Southern California, who could use it as well.

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Berkonomics

JULY 28, 2015

September 21st, 2015 marks the sixth anniversary of publication for BERKONOMICS , the blog containing insights for business management, entrepreneurs, and investors. Starting with just 4,000 circulation in 2009, BERKONOMICS has grown to well over 100,000, and is read on five continents by an audience that is 45% female.

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DECEMBER 16, 2009

One of the perpetual themes of the technology news sites and blogs this year has been fairly nonstop coverage of Twitter, the microblogging site. Tags: interview startup entrepreneur sean adly twitter advertising microblogging tweet. Finally, what's next on your plate?

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JULY 29, 2009

One of our hopes, aside from creating a way to package knowledge, is to essentially allow entrepreneurs to create their own publishing company. It is differentiated from a Squidoo, eHow, blogs, or Google Knol in that it has a greater depth of information, and provides deeper information to the user.

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APRIL 14, 2010

We don't think of ourselves as mommy bloggers, Gloss is not a blog but really an online magazine and community. Tags: lolita carrico gloss network startup interview content women advice entrepreneur modernmom. However, I think some of the revenues got diluted by that wild west mentality, mommy bloggers, and all of that. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 23, 2010

There are many style and fashion blogs, and are in a space to become influencers for women, however, none of them as of yet have as much influence as people who actually influence those bloggers. Tags: entrepreneur startup social shopping thisnext edelman matt. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 1, 2010

We get requests like that from people who are doing their own primary research, for their own business plans; people doing market analysis; from the financial community; but also from people writing things like iPhone apps, creating their own blogs, or commenting about the industry in the newspapers. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 14, 2013

One day, I wrote a blog post seeing if anyone else was into this, and people said yea--let's set up a meeting at Crashspace. It made a lot of sense to me to be in a space where I'd be around people working on really cool stuff. We ended up with a room full of people interested in the same thing.

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