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Eight Tech Gadgets To Add To Your Gifts List

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Combining the theme of holiday shopping with Southern California's technology industry, here are eight electronic gifts from local companies to add to your shopping list this season. robotics startup spun out of Idealab--uses cleaning cloths to tidy up your hard floors. Sonos Play:3. owned by iRobot. Vizio CoStar. The CoStar.

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Los Angeles Tech Launched - Hot List

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This is the beginning of a content community that collects and organizes the best content from blogs and web sites. The goal is to create a place where it's relatively easy to find current content and highly relevant content surrounding Los Angeles Technology. This technology allows us to see what is hot.

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This Week in VC with Jim Armstrong of Clearstone

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They were started in affiliation with IdeaLab and were the first-round lead in PayPal. Palm (acquired by HP ) – In our interview we talked about how transformational mobile computing is and why it’s different than web computing (e.g. Investors: Google Ventures. Segment Two: “Deal of the Week”. LivingSocial.

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

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An innovator in technology, especially monetization. The birthplace of sponsored search (Overture), semantic search (Applied Semantics which became Google AdSense), comparison shopping (ShopZilla, PriceGrabber) and many others. Home to the Internet’s first true “accelerator,” Idealab led by Bill Gross.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

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Bill Gross is the man responsible for the overwhelming amount of monetization on the web. plus a large settlement on patent disputes paid from Google) so Bill did well on it. He’s behind IdeaLab and has created many interesting companies including innovating in solar energy ( eSolar ) and electric cars ( Aptera ).

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March Capital Partners' Jim Armstrong On A New, $240M Venture Fund

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Jim Armstrong: It's broadly technology, from consumer Internet, to marketplaces, from Internet infrastructure to enterprise software. I think there are a lot of opportunities across all of these areas of technology, especially as it relates to Southern California. Enterprises have to react to that, to serve consumers.

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

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Scott’s first big foray into industry-changing companies came with CarsDirect, an IdeaLab company where he was the initial founder & CEO. Analytics also extend to iPhone and web apps using Facebook Connect. Danish VOIP technology company founded in 2006 by entrepreneur Tanveer Sharif. a fbFund winner.

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