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Render Media: Creating A Digital Publisher In The Social Age

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He was a co-founder of Applied Semantics, which started the AdSense technology, which they sold to Google in 2003. Demand Media made a business out of that. It will be less about celebrities, but more along a Wired or more intellectual Buzzfeed, and we'll also further our reach into gaming, music, and elsewhere in our same format.

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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. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. He built & IPOd Demand Media. acquired Overture for $1.63 Yes, Google won.