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Topspin Media's Gotcher Gets Emmy

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Peter Gotcher , the Chairman and co-founder of Santa Monica-based music startup Topspin Media , has scored an Emmy award, for his work in co-founding firm Digidesign. Avid's Pro Tools -- based on Digidesign's products -- are an industry standard used for sound editing in the entertainment industry. The Philo T. READ MORE>>.

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Report: Southern California Venture Capital Totals $464M In Q3

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In Orange County, the biggest deals were for Irvine-based WaterHealth International , a developer of water purification products with $22.1M Media and Entertainment came in second, with $70.1M--but only because San Diego's SkinIt boosted totals by $60M. raised, and Irvine-based Brand Affinity Technologies , a. in funding.

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Thanks to socalTECH's Sponsors!

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Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com). BASSETT Executive Search Solutions (www.BassettSearch.com) The confidential source for executive talent -- serving emerging growth company clients in the high tech, new media, entertainment and consumer industries. They include: Sponsors. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com).

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Interview with Robert Flynn, Aggregage

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Roberty Flynn: We are building what we see as the next generation of business to business media. However, as we have seen in the last few years, traditional media has been failing. Back in the early days of LA venture capital, I was first an associate of a fund, and then partner of a fund, Entertainment Media Venture Partners.

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Looking At LA's Technology Future with Derek Norton

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We also put together the Series B with Redpoint for Machinima. That's a byproduct of the entertainment industry. That might be virtual goods, or monthly subscriptions to services like handbags, shoes, baby products, children's products, anything. Those are two big gaming companies. Derek Norton: Technology is a commodity.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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It’s always fun debating companies with Dana because she’s always so knowledgeable on deals – particularly those in the digital media, ad-tech and eCommerce spaces. But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit.

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The Challenges (& Opportunities) of Starting a Tech Company in LA

Jason Nazar

In the bay area it’s quite common for the entrepreneurs starting a company to be developers or technologists who can build the first versions of their products. He just pounded out design and code for a few weeks and got Plancast up on the web and users adopting his product right away. Whereas in Silicon Valley, you can have a V.1

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