socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Los Angeles area startups and would-be entrepreneurs were gathered Thursday as a part of the annual Twiistup technology conference, being held at the Skirball Center. The startup event--which continues until tonight--included keynotes by David Cohen of TechStars, Suneel Gupta of Groupon, Loic Le Meur of Seesmic, and many others.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Geodelic has previously raised funding from Clearstone Ventures, Shasta Ventures and MK Capital, all of whom also participated in that June investment. Tags: geodelic verizon investment venture capital mobile location applications rahul sonnad. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Jason Nazar is CEO of Santa Monica-based Docstoc (www.docstoc.com), the online document sharing site, and a fixture at Los Angeles technology events. Once you start building out a product, and raise some seed capital, there's probably one thing that is important to your business. That's the way to develop those relationships.

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Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

I recently hosted a panel at the Twiistup Conference about LA tech companies. I asked the panelists ( David Travers , Brian Norgard , Fouad ElNaggar , & Demian Sellfors ) about the specific challenges that we face down here in Los Angeles as opposed to Silicon Valley. That’s typically not the case in Los Angeles.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Redpoint Ventures is one of the venture capital firms which has straddled both Northern California and Southern California, with offices in both locations. Fouad ElNaggar: There has been this perception that we are not involved in Los Angeles, which I find really funny. We really believe in the market.

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socalTECH

MARCH 23, 2011

Jason Nazar is CEO and founder of Santa Monica-based document sharing firm DocStoc , and recently put together his thoughts on the challenges, and opportunities, facing startups in Los Angeles. I recently hosted a panel at the Twiistup Conference about LA tech companies. That's typically not the case in Los Angeles.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

Los Angeles. First, I’d like to quote (paraphrase) Brad Feld speaking at Twiistup in LA in 2009, “I keep hearing people in LA talking with a chip on their shoulders about building a tech business here relative to Silicon Valley. People either love it our hate it. All the stereotypes and caricatures are overblown.

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