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Brickfish Snags Sales Exec From Google

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Brickfish is venture backed by DCM, Draper Richards L.P., Mangrove Capital Partners, and OCA Ventures, and counts such firms as Nike, MTV Networks, Coach, The North Face, Samsung, and others as clients. Botto joined Google through Google's acquisition of Urchin Software, where he was Business Development Manager. READ MORE>>.

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Launchpad LA – More Details Revealed

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I set out some simple objectives, picked 13 startup CEO’s, planned a series of events, spent time personally trying to coach people through their fund raising processes and waited to see where it went. When we started I told everybody we would run the organization as a startup itself. The companies are listed on the website.

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Launchpad LA Receives VC Funding: $50,000 Per Startup

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There is also an amazing group of VC & Individual advisors who will help participate and steer the direction of Launchpad LA including: VCs: 500 Startups , First Round Capital , Foundry Group , Menlo Ventures (Shervin Pishevar), MK Capital. TechForward – Raises $7 million from NEA & First Round Capital.