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Mahalo Retools As Educational Content Apps Provider

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Remember Santa Monica-based Mahalo , the startup headed by Jason Calacanis and backed by such investors as Sequoia Capital? Mahalo had initially focused on creating a human-curated search engine, but had seen some stumbles after major Google algorithm changes last year which caused a dropoff in the firm's search engine traffic.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Read more: VentureWire (requires login) , Mahalo Profile Page. Configurable from desktop-based web-based UI. Moving into online education courses for 8 th -12 th grade in Summer 2010. Note that I’m not defining who numbers 1,2 are. Time will tell.

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

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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. , Tyler Crowley – Mahalo Tyler Crowley is the Director of Corporate Strategy at Mahalo and Producer of Open Angel Forum (OAF). Founded in January 2004, Weblogs, Inc.

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