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ShopNation Raises $800K, Launches Fashion Discovery Site

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Santa Monica-based ShopNation has raised $800,000 in a seed funding, and launched a new fashion discovery site today. ShopNation's web site allows users to find fashion products, including clothing, shoes, handbags, accessories, and lingerie, sort-able by brand, features, price, and other options. READ MORE>>.

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Layoffs Hot Keyword for Second Half of January 2009

SoCal CTO

-The Scott Sanfilippo Interview Media Optimization Firms Are Red Hot In Southern California in 2009 Proliferate - Aggregate - Integrate Startups Uncensored #4 - “Finding and Working with Partners” SoCal VC’s absent from Forbes Midas List Top Five Best Uses of an Entrepreneur's Legal Dollars What Data Crunchers Did for Obama An Evaluation of Web Strategy (..)

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Their first fund was a $75 million fund raised in 2006 and they very recently announced a brand new $130 million fund. Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. In the intro section of the show we talked a lot about why VC funds are becoming smaller again and where Greycroft fits.

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Interview with Jason Kiesel and Kurt Daradics, FreedomSpeaks

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We currently have data on 3900 counties, 1900 cities, including emails, web forms, web sites, telephones, faxes, you name it. Kurt and I are pretty Web 2.0 Jason Kiesel: I got my start doing consulting work for the past twelve years in the web space. You did find some angel funding, didn't you?

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

SoCal Delicious

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. Jason Calacanis – Mahalo Jason Calacanis was CEO and co-founder of Weblogs, Inc., As of June 2008 Jason is now CEO and Founder of Mahalo, Inc. ,

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

Jason Nazar

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. In Los Angeles we are at a disadvantage because the founder(s) often have no experience in building consumer web applications. Challenge #4 – We are Divided by Our Geography.

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