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The makers of the virtual influencer, Lil Miquela, snag real money from Silicon Valley

TechCrunch LA

It’s less well-known that the company is backed by some of the biggest names in venture capital investment — firms like Sequoia Capital. It feels like we’re not going to put the genie back in the bottle, so we’ve got to learn how to leverage these tools in positive ways. ” That was a lie. It worked. .

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Is Silicon Valley Really Coming to an End?

Both Sides of the Table

By now you probably know that David Sacks , co-founder of PayPal and founder of both Geni & Yammer made some observations on Facebook that Silicon Valley “as we know it” was coming to an end. He didn’t mean to make a media storm out of it – it was a simple comment on his Facebook page. Of course not.

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Layoffs Hot Keyword for Second Half of January 2009

SoCal CTO

Here's the rest. Top for January 16, 2009 - January 31, 2009 Posts Are You Selling Online Yet? Here’s how to do it.

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Venture capitalists ‘like and subscribe’ to influencers

TechCrunch LA

Next she took to Instagram, a new social media platform that quickly became the most effective tool in a blogger’s toolkit. We are in phase three of the influencer economy,” Bain Capital Ventures senior principal Jamison Hill, who led the firm’s investment in the influencer shoutout marketplace Cameo , tells TechCrunch.

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Twiistup 6 Highlights

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We are a city unique in merging the world’s best content with digital media and technology expertise. 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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Digiday Mobile: The Future Of Mobile Media Live

Tech Zulu Event

Discover the what the future holds for you and this game changing media platform. After recent announcements by Google and Apple, the mobile advertising ecosystem is abuzz with optimism and flush with venture capital. Should media companies offer their content on an ad-supported basis or get users to pay up front?

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Venture Conference Highlights SoCal Startups

socalTECH

socalTECH was a media sponsor of the conference). The conference, held at the Westin South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, featured pitches by eight different companies vying for the attention--and pocketbooks--of venture capitalists.