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Interview with Dan LeBlanc, CEO and Co-founder, Daasity

socalTECH

A lot of those brands, on the e-commerce side, are becoming more data driven. The challenge a lot of those businesses have, is likely have built their sites and are using a lot of different software-as-a-service platforms. How we do hat, is we've built an analytics platform, Daasity, for data-as-a-service.

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

Both Sides of the Table

And we’re left with a city with idyllic weather, major commerce, the media center of the world, and a great emerging technology scene. It’s not uncommon for incredibly smart and talented Phd’s or CS majors from Stanford to raise $10 million on an early-stage “platform&# that if it succeeds it will be huge.

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A Chat With Jamie Montgomery On How LA's Tech Ecosystem Has Grown

socalTECH

It's now an internationally recognized showcase for technology here in Los Angeles, and we also get to showcase Southern California companies, as well. The third area, are the private equity players. In terms of that, they are people like Vista Equity, particularly, but also Summit, TPG, KKR, and Silver Lake.

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TechZulu Presents 2012 Startup Forecast | Featuring Science, Tech Coast Angels, Amplify, StartEngine, upStart.LA

Tech Zulu Event

The panel is comprised of Southern California’s Top VC’s, Angels, and Startup Accelerator founders. Mike has over 18 years of strategic, operational and senior management experience in businesses ranging from early stage start-ups to private equity backed assets and from mid-stage business to large turn-around operations.

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Interview with Paul Bricault, Amplify

socalTECH

Bricault was the founder of The Mailroom Fund, which was focused on early stage investments in Southern California digital media, and prior to that spent significant time at William Morris Agency. We sat down with Paul to learn a bit more about the program at Amplfify. Can you tell us a little bit about the basics behind the program?

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Competes with HauteLook , RueLaLa (sub of GSI Commerce) , Billion Dollar Babes , ideeli , Glam List. Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. Tested platform on San Francisco’s Live 105; then scaled out for national syndication with positive audience uplift.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. We are creating a platform that enables users to play instant games and apps directly on the computer desktop.

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