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PublishThis Enhances Content Curation Tool

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According to the firm, the company's technology is now analyzing over 100 million data elements and 300,000 sources per month to help its clients organize the best and most useful content from around the web. The firm's software is one of the few which helps enable the trend of using content curation to automate content publishing.

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Interview with Carey Ransom, RealPractice

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We thought it would be worth hearing about where the firm is today, as well as Carey's strategy to create something similar to LegalZoom, but for attorneys. But, we saw the opportunity to bring that intersection of people between people who understand strong web businesses, and that interaction with the legal profession.

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What Mattered in 2010: Jim Andelman, Rincon Ventures

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We asked the same five questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next two weeks. In your opinion, what events, companies, or people made the biggest impact on the technology world in 2010? 1) Mobile web. There are lots.

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Catching Up With Joanne Bradford, Demand Media

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Santa Monica-based Demand Media (www.demandmedia.com) has seen its share of ups and downs as one of the highest visibility technology and media companies to come out of Southern California's technology ecosystem in recent years. For Legalzoom, it's a very different model.

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Docstoc's Jason Nazar Talks About DocStore

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We launched Docstore about four or five months ago with a number of premium partners, including LegalZoom, CareerPress, LegalAcreements.com, and others, and now we are opening up the marketplace so that virtually anyone can sell high quality, professional content. In San Francisco, it's technology people looking to find business people.

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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

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Or how about the best example – Loic Le Meur gets everybody over to Paris every year for Le Web. In Los Angeles the wins of Overture, Applied Semantics, MySpace, LowerMyBills, PriceGrabber, LegalZoom and the like have produced a large number of angels who are helping the next generation of LA entrepreneurs get started and succeed.

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

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I’m just not sure you can build a great technology firm outside of Bay Area.&#. In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds who have a history of giving $20 million to early-stage technology companies hoping to swing for the fences and become the next Google, Facebook or Twitter. You just don’t. Get over it.