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ChowNow Raises $3M For Mobile Food Orders

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ChowNow , a startup which provides social, mobile, and web-based online ordering for restaurants, said this morning that it has raised $3M in a Series A funding. The funding was led by GRP Partners, and also included Double M Capital, Daher Capital, Karlin Ventures, and Velos Partners. READ MORE>>.

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Gravity Debuts Content Personalization API

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Santa Monica-based Gravity , the developer of real-time personalization software headed by former MySpace COO Amit Kapur, is making a big push today with the launch of a new set of free APIs for publishers. Gravity is backed by GRP Partners, Redpoint Ventures and August Capital, having most recently raise d$10.6M READ MORE>>.

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Los Angeles Startup Community

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Los Angeles LA Tech 101: The Company We Keep A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference The Challenges (& Opportunities) of Starting a Tech Company in LA Los Angeles Startup Networking Here are some guides to many of the different networking events around startups, technology, etc.:

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Los Angeles Startup Community

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Los Angeles LA Tech 101: The Company We Keep A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference The Challenges (& Opportunities) of Starting a Tech Company in LA Los Angeles Startup Networking Here are some guides to many of the different networking events around startups, technology, etc.:

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Why John Frankel Leaned in Early on Klout and Cornerstone OnDemand and What He Sees Next

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John laid into a well-honed thesis on why the social web needed a “Page Rank” equivalent for people. And oddly it took an investor in New York to highlight to me Cornerstone OnDemand – one of the most successful software company in my home town of Los Angeles! – and why it would become a powerhouse.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly was the “static&# web. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. was the 2-way web. I then remember when Amazon started selling books on the web. Advertising has driven the majority of Internet innovation.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

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Finally we get to: Peter Coffee , Director of Platform Research, Salesforce.com His premise is that we should be beyond having to buy servers, software, or any other infrastructure. Most likely, a Level 2 platform's apps also call into the platform via a web services API to draw on data and services. By definition need redundancy.

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