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Interview with David Aronchick, Hark

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Last week, we talked with Fouad ElNaggar of Redpoint Ventures about some of the interesting companies in Southern California. Hark is backed by Redpoint, and happens to be co-founded by Fouad. We spoke with David Aronchick , the CEO and co-founder of the firm to hear more about what it's up to. What's the story behind Hark?

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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.

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Southern California Investments On Uptick, Totals $686.5M For Q1

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for the quarter, up from both Q4 of last year as well as the comparable Q1 quarter in 2009, according to the latest numbers from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the NVCA. in Q1, up from $588.033M tallied by the report in Q4 of 2009, and up significantly from the $320.2M Media and Entertainment was at $55.5M

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Interview with Robert Flynn, Aggregage

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The startup is headed by Robert Flynn --a former VC, and co-founder of Liquid Audio, and most recently head of Modern Feed, the company that is now Clicker--who talked with us about his new company. That is starting to show itself in the B2B space. Entertainment is confusing--we didn't make investments in pure content plays.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Another topic we debated early in the program was “lean startup” vs. “ fat startup ” where we both took the obvious hedge and said “it depends.” 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. Go Boulder!

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Thanks to socalTECH's Sponsors!

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Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com). Startups Made Simple. tech, new media, entertainment and consumer industries. Thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on Southern California's high tech news and companies. They include: Sponsors. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com).

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Thanks to socalTECH's Sponsors!

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Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com). Startups Made Simple. 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. Helping entrepreneurs succeed.

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