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Gradient X Snags Exec From OpenX

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Gradient X , the online mobile marketing and advertising technology developer backed by GRP Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, Crosscut Ventures, Founder Collective, Double M Capital, Baroda Ventures, Siemer Ventures, and others, has snapped up some talent from OpenX with its latest hire. He was at Overture before it was acquired by Yahoo.

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Scripted.com Finds $150K

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Scripted.com , the online marketplace for freelance writers which has a number of Southern California angel investors, said Wednesday that it has raised another $150,000 in funding.

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Local Angels Back Scripted.com

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A number of Southern California angel investors, including Jody Mulkey , the CIO of Shopzilla, have backed Scripted.com , a new online marketplace for freelance writers.

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Bringing The Benefit Of Managed Cloud To Enterprises, With Metacloud

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That allows companies to reuse their existing capital, get full control over where their data resides, and where their performance is very deterministic, day in and day you, because you''re not sharing it with any other tenant on the public cloud. CIOs are wondering if they should jump in, wait for production, or wait for things to mature.

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2011 Orange County Public Company Forum

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Martin, chairman, CEO and CIO, Mont Pelerin Capital; Cary H. Abate, corporate vice president and CFO, Edwards Lifesciences; Robert A. Claassen, partner, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky and Walker LLP; Charles D. Thompson, vice chairman, Bank of America Merrill Lynch; and Mikel Williams, CEO, DDi Corp. See [link] (more)

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

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Funding is different – In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds and many of them. So if you’re out to create content businesses there is no better time and no better place than here. Douglas Merrill, the former CIO of Google, is building his next company in LA. Frank Addante has created Rubicon Project.

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Ryan Blair, HashtagOne: From Gang Member, To Entrepreneur, To Anti-VC

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We've made some investments here and there, and are now building a team, and making a lot of investments in SoCal tech companies. Sending the zeros and ones into the air was the same and sending nutrients into your mitochondria, except that at Visalus, it was not capital intensive like it was at SkyPipeline. So where is the fund now?