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Southern California Teams Named Cleantech Open Semifinalists

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The Cleantech Open , the clean technology focused business competition, has named the semifinalists for its 2010 competition, indicating a number of Southern California firms are semifinalists in the competition.

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Viddy Wants to Bring Developers to Silicon Beach | $10K and a Job Offer

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To top it off they also announced a “Rule the Beach: Hack Your Way into Viddy” developer competition in a blog post : …Team Viddy would like to invite you to join the Silicon Beach community, by entering our “Rule the Beach: Hack Your Way into Viddy” Developers Competition.

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How to Out Amazon, Amazon

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If a consumer will pay a fixed price for a product or service then the battle over who gets the margin in any sale is between the person who merchandises a product and the person who manufactures it. In Venice, California they opened a “Parachute Hotel” that let consumers experience the product for a night in a world-class location.

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Interview with Gordon Gould, SmartyPants Vitamins

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Your background is Internet services  howd you decide to instead sell what seems like a more traditional product? There was a real opportunity for me to arbitrage the last decade and a half of my experience in the Internet, and apply that to a products company, and to get some real competitive advantage.

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Interview with Roni Eschel, goFlow

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We recently launched booking experiences and services in L.A. Roni Eschel: I grew up surfing competitively, and traveling the world. I saw that there was a combination of technology and the surfing industry in Venice. How did you go from pro surfing in Israel, to starting a company here in L.A.? After I arrived here in L.A.,

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Chris Hollod On Investing With Ashton Kutcher, Guy Oseary, and Ron Burkle

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People welcomed us with open arms, and always wanted us to co-invest, because they didn't see us as competitive. They think I live in Hollywood, but there's Santa Monica, Venice, Echo Park, Silverlake, there's a scene downtown, I can go for a walk in the hills, I can go take a walk on the beach, there is just so much going on.

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Interview with Tobi Bauckhage, Moviepilot

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I'm going to move to LA, and we're pretty close to the Movieclips guys, and we think we'll have some support from them and start in Venice somewhere. Do you see a lot of competition from current US services? We plan on opening up shop at the end of June.

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