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

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He eventually founded and sold consumer health firm ViSalus to a public company and is now back making investments, in technology companies, as a venture capitalist here at Los Angeles-based HashtagOne (www.hashtagone.com). What's the theme of your investments? Ryan Blair: The theme around the fund is pretty simple.

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Bringing The Benefit Of Managed Cloud To Enterprises, With Metacloud

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The company announced a funding round from Canaan Partners, Storm Ventures, and AME Cloud a couple of weeks ago. CIOs are wondering if they should jump in, wait for production, or wait for things to mature. That allow enterprise CIOs to jump into OpenStack head first. What is pushing those CIOs to consider private clouds?

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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. They not only have gotten bigger but they have an amazing track record of funding the biggest names in the sector: Cisco, Apple, Google, Facebook. As a result many funds are OK with big bets.

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The social Web in 2010: The emerging standards and technologies to watch

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As for 2010, it’s shaping up to be a year of general improvement in the business and technology industries hard hit by recession, the impact of which has seemed to hold back new investment and experimentation in social technologies, many of which are funded by staff participation from Internet firms.

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