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Blockchain, Video Games, and the MLB: Interview with Randy Saaf, Lucid Sight

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Lucid Sight recently announced a $6M funding round from such investors as the ML, Salem Partners, The Galaxy EOS VC Fund, Digital Currency Group, Breakaway Growth, Frontier Venture Capital, and Animoca Brands. That's designing games on platforms that are fairly nascent now, like the iPhone was in 2008.

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What Mattered in 2010: Jim Andelman, Rincon Ventures

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All this week, we are sharing the opinions of some of the top influencers in Southern California's high tech community. Earlier today, we talked with Greg Martin at Archer Venture Capital. Below, we collect the thoughts of Jim Andelman , a venture capitalist at Rincon Venture Partners. READ MORE>>.

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Insights and Opinions: How To Network In 10 Easy Steps

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In spite of what you see on Shark Tank, your food business isn't gonna get serious interest from a group of high tech investors. Another social networking platform may be keeping you awake half the night, but it'll likely put us to sleep. Venture capital told us they didn't want to see any more of these deals 3 years ago.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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They estimate that high-tech work contributes $108.3 What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies. We see big data storage solutions and processing platforms.

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Interview with Patrick Kennedy, Sidebar

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When I joined the company, I found an amazing technology platform and analytics capability. He's gone through this a couple of times now, so we have a robust platform which can predict the content users will like, and do so in an elegant and efficient manner. By using our analytics platform, they learn about what consumers want.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

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I'm Tired of Creating Your Content - Babbling VC , November 12, 2010 Jeff triggered this post in regards to his Check-in Fatigue on Foursquare. Storm Clouds - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 12, 2010 We have enjoyed an amazing run in the web startup and investing space over the past five or six years.

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Interview with Vic Caretti, Loudvine

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We're creating a platform that highlights musicians, venues, and local fans. I ended up doing consulting work for high tech companies in the San Francisco Bay Area in the software messaging area, and then came back to Los Angeles doing corporate sales for 3M, of all things. What is Loudvine? Vic Caretti: It's pretty simple.