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Calacanis Backs Mobile Social Networking Service

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Jason Calacanis , the high profile founder of Santa Monica-based Mahalo , is one of the angel investors in a mobile social networking service, Gowalla , the company said today. Series B funding for the firm. Series B funding for the firm. Calacanis is also an investor in Gdgt.com and ChallengePost.com.

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

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MySpace is one of the world’s largest social networks, with about 125 million users. He runs the Southern California Venture Capital Alliance (VCA) and is on the board of advisors for the venture capital fund of the UCSD Rady School of Business. As of June 2008 Jason is now CEO and Founder of Mahalo, Inc. ,

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Twiistup 6 Highlights

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We are also home to DemandMedia (Richard Rosenblatt) and Mahalo (Jason Calacanis). We had an excellent opening panel on early-stage investing with Dave McClure (Founders Fund – NorCal), Brad Feld (Foundry Group, Boulder) and Andy Sack (Founders Co-Op, Seattle). We have accomplished much yet have much work to do.

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Interview with Jason Kiesel and Kurt Daradics, FreedomSpeaks

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The other feature that sets us apparent, is our integration with social media. savvy, we have every social networking credential there is, and we've integrated those sites into the API. The lightbulb went on at MOTM (Editor's note: Kurt's project to network technology executives in Southern California).

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