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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.

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Eight Repeat Entrepreneurs To Watch In SoCal

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Getting lots of notice--and controversy--at Demand Media for its use of writers to create content specifically to attract web traffic. 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.

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USC Startup Weekend | Complete Breakdown

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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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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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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. 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.”. Time will tell.

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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. We currently have data on 3900 counties, 1900 cities, including emails, web forms, web sites, telephones, faxes, you name it.

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

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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., As of June 2008 Jason is now CEO and Founder of Mahalo, Inc. , Why should a startup thinking about moving to a new place choose LA?

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