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Citysearch Nabs Gorilla Nation's Louvion

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West Hollywood-based Citysearch announced today that it has hired on Christophe Louvion--the former CTO of Gorilla Nation Media--as its Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Core Products. Tags: citysearch christophe louvion gorilla nation executive internet advertising. READ MORE>>.

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CityGrid Media Buys BuzzLabs

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West Hollywood-based CityGrid Media , the unit of IAC formerly known as CitySearch, said today that it has acquired BuzzLabs , a social media monitoring and sentiment analysis software developer. The company explained that it would be integrating BuzzLabs' technology into its platform over the next three to six months.

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Privlo Raises $2.1M For Private Mortgage Marketplace

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According to Privlo said the new funding will go to expand on its recently pilot of its platform, which helps match up private lenders and mortgage borrowers. Privlo, which was founded by Michael Slavin, said the new funding came from QED Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

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And we’re left with a city with idyllic weather, major commerce, the media center of the world, and a great emerging technology scene. But we have a great city for building technology companies. We were also an investor in the early local listing company, CitySearch – an LA company. You don’t. Get over it.

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Kara Nortman Was Just Promoted to Co-Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures. Here’s What it All Means

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She took an operating role helping run Citysearch and Urbanspoon. And all the platform stuff. Instead he championed our investment themes into sustainability and food technologies having invested in companies like Apeel Sciences and Ynsect. My literal response was, “She went to Princeton undergrad and has a Stanford MBA.

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Interview with Scot Richardson, Laughstub

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Their fees are too high to put on a $15 ticket, and you don't need to pay for the technology to handle 30,000 people simultaneously trying to get assigned seats. Because of that, we saw problems in the industry, because the technology was not there to succeed. How did you get into the technology business? We currently reach 1.3

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Bolstering the Partner Ranks at GRP

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After that you could tell that Greg was really “all in” on the LA technology community. We both wanted to put energy into GRP’s platform of services that provide more value to our investments than merely capital. Like any firm we of course invest in the San Francisco Bay Area where 33% of my personal boards are.