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Vator Splash LA

SoCal Tech Calendar

This upcoming Splash will showcase 10 up-and-coming startups, prominent VCs and founders of the leading LA-based companies - Demand Media and ReachLocal. Hear Shawn Colo, co-founder and EVP of MandA at Demand Media, share his lessons and advice on building Demand from scratch in 2006 to one of this year's hottest IPOs.

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MySpace Startups: Startups From MySpace Vets

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Here are four startups of them, and what they're doing: Demand Media. Venture backers : Oak Investment Partners, Spectrum Equity, W Capital Partners, Goldman Sachs & Co., Venture backers : Mohr Davidow Ventures, Mission Ventures, Tech Coast Angels, Ron Conway. www.demandmedia.com). Generation Partners.

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Ortiva Wireless Adds Mobix

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Mobix Interactive is a provider of video-on-demand and TV services. Ortiva's venture backers are Artiman Ventures, Avalon Ventures, Comcast, and Mission Ventures. Financial impact of the customer win was not disclosed. Ortiva's products adapt video streams depending on wireless reception quality.

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Local VCs Assess Wall Street, Technology Investment Climate

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Plus, Babcock says the new money in investments will demand more process, and/or lower valuations. He explains, "Our partnership is spending time evaluating the impacts on our portfolio and our outlook on future investments.".

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Vator Makes A Splash In LA!

Tech Zulu Event

The event includes keynotes from Shawn Colo, co-founder of Demand Media, one of the hottest IPOs of this year, Zorik Gordon, co-founder and CEO of ReachLocal, one of the hottest IPOs of 2010. Not ready to submit your company or just want to take part of this event? TechZulu is hooking you up with a special discount!

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Interview with Adam Lieber, Webtide

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Adam also had a stint at Mission Ventures, and ran worldwide sales for open source middleware at IBM. I see you were at Gluecode, and also were in the venture world at Mission Ventures--can you talk about how you've bootstrapped this firm and how it compares? Where does Webtide fit into the software world?

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The Challenges (& Opportunities) of Starting a Tech Company in LA

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In LA there has typically been a small handful of firms actively making investments in tech, they include: Rustic Canyon , GRP Parners , Clearstone Venture Partners , Redpoint Ventures , Mission Ventures , Anthem Venture Partners , Greycroft , Crosscut , Palomar Ventures , and Rincon Ventures.

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