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The Stage Fund Sets Partner In Los Angeles

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The The Stage Fund , a investment and acquisition firm focused on acquiring turnaround companies, has tapped a longtime Southern California entrepreneur, Dan Tamkin , as a new Managing Partner in Los Angeles. According to the fund, Tamkin will be setting up a West Coast office for the fund, which is based in Denver, Colorado.

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Media Temple Names COO, CTO

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Los Angeles-based web hosting and cloud services firm Media Temple has tapped two technology vets as President and COO, and Chief Technology Officer, the company announced this morning. Lopez is also from LIbreDigital, where he was CTO and VP of COrporate and Business Development. READ MORE>>.

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Startup CTO or Developer

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I’ve been having discussions with several people recently about the role of the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in very early stage companies. What worries me a bit is how often I read that startups should hire a developer / hands-on lead developer. How can I control costs but effectively get stuff developed?

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Rubicon Project In Huge Executive Growth Push

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In what might easily be the most number of executives announced at once in Southern California, Los Angeles-based online advertising marketplace The Rubicon Project announced ten new executives across engineering, data, administrative and operational strategy, legal, financial and business development.

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Acclaim Games Acquired By Playdom

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Los Angeles-based Acclaim Games , a developer of casual and social networking games, has been acquired by Mountain View-based Playdom , Playdom said Tuesday evening. Playdom said the acquisition would also give it access to the game development talent in Southern California. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Zynga Ramps Los Angeles Office

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The firm, which said last year that it had selected Los Angeles for an expanded recruiting effort, recently posted a position for a Chief Technology Officer, based in Los Angeles. Zynga , the high flying social gaming firm behind the popular Farmville social game, appears to be ramping up its recruiting efforts in Los Angeles.

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Local Utilities Back Green Button Effort

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Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra, to help standardize and make household energy use information available to consumers. That group will be providing a "Startup Kit" to help app developers and others to create their own applications to use the data.