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Calacanis Backs 15Five

socalTECH

Jason Calacanis , the Los Angeles angel investor, podcast host, speaker, conference organizer, and CEO of Mahalo , is one of the angel investors in employee feedback firm 15Five.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

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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Guide to the LA Startup Community

SoCal Delicious

Demand Media is an online media company operating two strategically-linked businesses: an integrated content and social media platform, and registrar solutions. The CitizenNet platform helps you measure, analyze, and automate social media marketing and engagement. As of June 2008 Jason is now CEO and Founder of Mahalo, Inc. ,

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USC Startup Weekend | Complete Breakdown

Tech Zulu Event

A mobile and web platform that lets our users give and receive text messaging advice in a anonymous social community. 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). Neighborly. Text To Get Her.

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How to Save MySpace

Jason Nazar

This could also be done by leveraging a partnership (or buyout) of a site like Mahalo. MySpace HAS followers, what it doesn’t have are people excited to promote themselves on their platform. MySpace should leverage their users to create millions of topics pages indexed in search engines. Rupert Murdock is quite the fan of newspapers.