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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. According to the report, Calacanis is developing a property called Launch , which will focus on deep analysis of companies. AOL was the buyer of TechCrunch.

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Eight Repeat Entrepreneurs To Watch In SoCal

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They've acquired CAPTCHA security tools originally developed by Vidoop, and looking to market that technology to e-commerce web sites, social networking sites, and others looking to reduce spam and fraud. His new site, Mahalo, is focused on people-based, online search, with backing from Seuqoia Capital and Elon Musk, among others.

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USC Startup Weekend | Complete Breakdown

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Network Now, Accelerating Conference Networking. On our judging panel, we had Scott Sangster (Tech Coast Angels), Tyler Crowley (Mahalo), Pamela Coker (Daggerboard), Rick Citron (Citron & Deutsch Law Firm), and Dan Dato (Up.StartLA). Time to get to know your neighbors by sharing goods. Text To Get Her. GiftMunk.co.

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Startup Weekend LA | Recap February 2012

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Those with their ideas selected were out on the prowl, looking to recruit the top designer or developer in the room. While everyone developed their products throughout the day, SWLA teams briefly said hi to Marc Nager (StartupWeekend CEO) during a quick Skype call who was down in New Zealand facilitating Startup Weekend.

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

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MySpace is one of the world’s largest social networks, with about 125 million users. Codeita lets you design, code, and publish all from a cloud-based LAMP development environment. Jason Calacanis – Mahalo Jason Calacanis was CEO and co-founder of Weblogs, Inc., Full Disclosure: Matt works for CitizenNet.)

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. Helps content publishers and advertisers launch campaigns that develop viral distribution attributes and therefore gain “buzz.”. Read more: VentureWire (requires login) , Mahalo Profile Page. OTHER DEALS: 1.

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Interview with Jason Kiesel and Kurt Daradics, FreedomSpeaks

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FreedomSpeaks is a startup developing a business around connecting people with information about their political representatives, and also enabling organizations and others to do the same. savvy, we have every social networking credential there is, and we've integrated those sites into the API. Kurt and I are pretty Web 2.0

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