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Brickfish Snags Sales Exec From Google

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San Diego-based Brickfish , a developer of social media and networking software being used by brands, reported today that it has hired on a Paul Botto, most recently Head of Analytics for the North American Sales Organization at Google, as its Vice President of Sales. Brickfish is venture backed by DCM, Draper Richards L.P.,

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CapLinked Adds Investors To Series A

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The firm said it has brought its Series A up to $2.1M, and added new investors Conversion Capital, Inflection Ventures, The Artesian Group, Chris Harris (software engineering manager at Google), and Lee Essener (founder of AccessDNA). The firm earlier had announced investments from. READ MORE>>.

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Chippmunk Raises $750,000 in Seed Funding for Scaling & Product Development

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The seed round was led by investments from Richard Chino, a key early member of GoTo.com and Smarter.com; Dan Murray, CFO of Machinima ; Derek Draper of Wildfire by Google; Nikhil Srivastava of KKR ; Angel Investor Andrew Schwartz and other angles from LA and Silicon Valley. 750,000 for Scaling & Product development.

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Three Epic Startup Battles With SoCal Players

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HauteLook, one of the first firms to capitalize on the sample/private sales market, is already profitable and is growing rapidly. The firm is headed by Adam Bernhard , a veteran of the fashion sales industry. Backers: ACME Group, Google, Idealab, NRG, Oak Investment Partners, The Quercus Trust of California. HauteLook - Profile.

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CapLinked Announces New Investors, Signs Up New Clients & Builds New Features

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Jackson said, “We’re using the proceeds from our financing round to invest in our technology, build new features, and increase sales and support.”. CapLinked’s new investors include Conversion Capital , Inflection Ventures,The Artesian Group, Chris Harris (software engineering manager at Google), and Lee Essener (founder of AccessDNA).

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Interview With Brian McCarthy, Dentistry.com

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That was backed by BVP and Draper Fishre Jurvetson, A-league venture investors, before YouTube got bought by Google and all the wind got taken off the ocean. How do you handle recruiting, and what do you tell potential employees who might be getting recruited by local startups or even large companies with nearby offices, like Google?

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TechZulu Partners with meebo!

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If you look to the bottom of your browser you will see to the far right the ability to connect to Facebook, AIM, Google Talk and other chat networks. Trending topics are all the rage, Twitter, Google. Put your digital audio content up for sale with AudioMicro, simply and securely. Also, with the meebo bar comes meebo chat.

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