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Fifty years of the internet

TechCrunch LA

ARPA, the Advanced Research Projects Agency, (now called “DARPA”) awarded a contract to scientists at the private firm Bolt Beranek and Newman to implement a router, or Interface Message Processor; UCLA was chosen to be the first node in this fledgling network.

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Web 1.0 Entrepreneurs: we are roadkill unless we learn to run as fast as today’s founders.

Steve Reich

They did it entirely through social networking. inLife signed up dozens of merchants in Santa Barbara for their activity site. One of the founders wrote a Python script that sent out custom emails to a list they had developed. No wonder they just raised $1mm.

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Interview with Fouad ElNaggar, Redpoint Ventures

socalTECH

I'm down here probably three or four days a week on average, and we're trying to be active, and pick off what we think are going to be the best deals here, from Santa Barbara down to San Diego. Finally, for entrepreneurs, what's the best way to approach you--email, Twitter, Facebook? Fouad ElNaggar: It's pretty broad.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Judges Include Mike Jones, CallFire, Idealab, Tech Coast Angels, Coloft

Tech Zulu Event

He holds a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, a JD from Southwestern University, and suffers from an addiction to cheeseburgers. is a web hosting and virtualization service provider headquartered in Los Angeles, California. mt) Media Temple, Inc.