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Calacanis Backs Mobile Social Networking Service

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Jason Calacanis , the high profile founder of Santa Monica-based Mahalo , is one of the angel investors in a mobile social networking service, Gowalla , the company said today. Tags: jason calacanis angel investment venture capital social networking gowalla. Series B funding for the firm.

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Guardian Circle Taps Your Social Network For Help In A Crisis

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Marina Del Rey-based Guardian Circle says it has the app for you--a new app which lets you connect with your own personal network of family, friends, neighbors, co-workers, and others, who can get you out of a bind. 911--to provide help. The app was created by startup veterans Mark Jeffrey and Chris Hayes. READ MORE>>.

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Eight Repeat Entrepreneurs To Watch In SoCal

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socalTECH.com has mined its proprietary database of high tech companies and entrepreneurs and identified just a few of the repeat entrepreneurs to watch in the region. Mahalo / Jason Calacanis - Calacanis, often known better in Silicon Valley than Southern California, had his last success in Weblogs, Inc., which he sold to AOL.

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Chartbeat is to Blogs as Google Analytics is to Print Newspapers

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Chartbeat is a relatively young company and product. I was recently over at the Mahalo offices in Santa Monica and I noticed that they had a great big screen TV with Chartbeat displaying their traffic data. But I can always see the correlation between writing a blog or publishing on a social network and traffic.

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Twiistup 6 Highlights

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We are also home to DemandMedia (Richard Rosenblatt) and Mahalo (Jason Calacanis). There are now a second generation of entrepreneurs and companies that have learned from their last successes and are producing great new companies like TopSpin Media , Sometrics and GumGum. We have accomplished much yet have much work to do.

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

SoCal Delicious

Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with. What are some examples of successful companies that were started here? LowerMyBills, Inc.

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How to Save MySpace

Jason Nazar

I know many of their founders and early employees, and one of the co-founders of Intermix (the parent company of MySpace) is an investor. Get users immediately into valuable content that engages them in the site: featured video, music, news; video, popular trending items in my network. A Micropayment Ecosystem for ALL Digital Goods.