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TeleSign Partners For Improved Security

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TeleSign is being run by serial Southern California entrepreneur Steve Jillings, who has had a number of successful exits, including FrontBridge and Vantage Media. The company has quietly emerged to power the phone-based screening for a very large number of top tier Internet services. READ MORE>>.

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Insights and Opinions: Top 10 Attributes of Successful VC Investments

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Contrary to the common belief that Southern California "should be an easy place to raise money" with all of its' entertainment and real estate wealth, it is a very difficult place to raise Venture Capital for technology start-ups. So how does an entrepreneur based in SoCal get the attention of VC funds today?

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What Mattered in 2012: Aber Whitcomb, io/LA

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For the last week of the year, we're featuring the thoughts and reflections of some of the movers and shakers of Southern California's high tech community. In Entertainment, we're seeing more and more people prefer their iPad over the Big Screen experience. READ MORE>>.

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Twiistup 6 Highlights

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In SoCal we are also leaders in affiliate marketing (Commission Junction), Internet video (Hulu) and bringing local businesses online (ReachLocal). There are now a second generation of entrepreneurs and companies that have learned from their last successes and are producing great new companies like TopSpin Media , Sometrics and GumGum.

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Launchpad LA – 10 Startup Companies to Watch

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Walk into any Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Southern California and you can’t miss their digital screens. I first met him there and knew he was a talented entrepreneur that I wanted to work with some day. Gyroscope is in double-dog secret stealth mode right now so I’ll focus more on the entrepreneur.

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How Nils Forsblom Is Reinventing Himself In Mobile With TenFarms

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Everyone from our team is from Finland, one is from Portugal, and we come and go between California and Finland. How did you end up here in Southern California? We have a couple of different ideas in the pipeline, and have filed patents in our unique way of showing advertising on a very small screen. What happened there?

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

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We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.