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Calacanis Plans Competitor To TechCrunch

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Jason Calacanis , the CEO of Mahalo, is planning some direct competition to Michael Arrington's technology blog empire, TechCrunch , according to a report today from the Guardian. startups, and Calacanis has increasingly directed Mahalo along the path of editorial content.

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Calacanis Pits LAUNCH Conference Against TechCrunch Disrupt

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Jason Calacanis , the CEO of Mahalo.com, has ramped up his competition with former business partner Michael Arrington , saying this morning he is launching a competing startup launch conference called the LAUNCH Conference. Tags: jason calacanis mahalo michael arrington techcrunch launch conference startup.

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Twiistup 6 Highlights

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We are also home to DemandMedia (Richard Rosenblatt) and Mahalo (Jason Calacanis). As should Eric Sikola and ExpenseBay who won the “Showoff&# judges competition ( Photos featured here taken by (cc) Kenneth Yeung – [link] ). We have accomplished much yet have much work to do.

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Story Crawler

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One of the benefits of networking for me has been connecting with so much talent, and the icing on the cake is being able to beta some of these bleeding edge products before they hit the market, giving me a competitive advantage. Mahalo (Mark Jeffrey and the gang are super cool and I dig that they made a custom page for me, ha!).

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Interview with Jason Kiesel and Kurt Daradics, FreedomSpeaks

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What really differentiates us from our competition is the data set we have. Our competition doesn't have that data. We met first through Tyler Crowley at Mahalo, and I invited Jason to speak at MOTM. Versus our competition, our feature set is much more robust and malleable.

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Raising $$ on AngelList? Working w/ McClure? Ask Jody Sherman

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Oh, and of course I shoot all of my videos at the ThisWeekIn studios which are located in the Mahalo offices. AngelList has introduced new competition and competition in any industry is always good. I hope that I at least defended Bryce’s point-of-view in the video (and in my previous post).

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Read more: VentureWire (requires login) , Mahalo Profile Page. Competition: McAfee , Symantec. Current round: $8mm in Series B from RRE Ventures (Will Porteous)(lead), SoftBank, Hearst Interactive Media, SV Angel (Ron Conway), Founder Collective.Total raised: $11.5mm. If you want the easy version you can read that story here !