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Calacanis Backs 15Five

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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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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Formerly, he was Managing Director of both Product Management and of Business Development at Los Angeles Times Interactive. Formerly, he was Managing Director of both Product Management and of Business Development at Los Angeles Times Interactive. an enterprise social networking platform provider located in Los Angeles, CA.

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CapLinked Raise $1.6m Series A Round & Appoint Adam Sroka As VP Technology

Tech Zulu Event

LA based CapLinked , a cloud-based business transaction platform yesterday raised $1.6 CapLinked is changing this with our intuitive and easy-to-use platform.”. million which was raised from Thiel, David Sacks (CEO of Yammer), and Joe Lonsdale (co-founder of Palantir), 500 Startups and 7th Rig. million Raised. and Schlumberger.

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Interview with Jon Ferrara, Nimble

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Anyone who has been in sales, business development, or just works a lot with others is familiar with contact management software--tracking who you have been talking to, when, notes, and more for sales teams. What it did uniquely, is it also integrated contacts and communications--all in single platform. It's not efficient.

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Coloft Hackfest And Your Chance At $4K In Cash! All Thanks to BetterWorks

Tech Zulu Event

Co-creator of Farmville and the technical platform for Zynga. Co-founder of Yammer, and Geni. Co-creator of the Lotus Share platform, which powers the new Lotus Connections Files and Wikis components at IBM. Sizhao Yang: Co-founder of BetterWorks. George Ishii: Co-founder of BetterWorks. Early designer of Paypal.

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

Both Sides of the Table

RedBeacon was the 3rd winner (year 1: Yammer, year 2: Mint.com) – not bad company. Because I knew that Ethan was on to a powerful idea and one in which he had developed huge competence and domain knowledge in. MyTime aims to be the first industry-wide platform to help create consistency across the SKUs in services businesses.

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Interview with Eric M. Jackson, CapLinked

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Jackson, CEO and co-founder of CapLinked (www.caplinked.com), which is developing tools to help entrepreneurs and investors connect. Jackson: CapLinked is actually a collaborative platform, a social platform that connects entrepreneurs and investors. Today's interview is with Eric M. How do you do that?