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APRIL 30, 2012

Remember Santa Monica-based Mahalo , the startup headed by Jason Calacanis and backed by such investors as Sequoia Capital? Mahalo had initially focused on creating a human-curated search engine, but had seen some stumbles after major Google algorithm changes last year which caused a dropoff in the firm's search engine traffic.

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Mahalo Education Content Santa Monica 147

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MAY 19, 2010

Of course none of these funds (my own included) want to be lumped into just one category because we all move across the spectrum. Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. Read more: VentureWire (requires login) , Mahalo Profile Page. OTHER DEALS: 1. Go Boulder!

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Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

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AUGUST 3, 2009

I believe that Twiistup is now a platform from which to grow and highlight what is uniquely LA. We are also home to DemandMedia (Richard Rosenblatt) and Mahalo (Jason Calacanis). And of course there was the F-bomb count that Cathy Brooks and I were keeping on Dave … by the end of the panel we had counted 8.

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Twiistup SoCal Southern California Yammer 228

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MARCH 6, 2011

It is a communication platform. If I’m not mistaken, I may have been the first person to send out an angel “personal intro&# email on AngelList through their new platform when it launched or at least I was one of the first few. It’s awesome. But it’s not cutting VCs out.

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging Summary 292