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Entrepreneur's Brilliant Companies List Pinpoint SoCal Startups

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At least six, Southern California companies -- Nimble , ParkMe , Quarterly , Beachmint , Chromatik , and Dollar Shave Club -- have been named as one of Entrepreneur Magazine's 100 Brilliant Companies list today, a healthy share of the publication's annual look at the best ideas, hottest industries, and innovators.

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socalTECH 50: Who are Southern California's Tech Up and Comers?

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A couple of weeks ago, we announced the socalTECH 50 --our attempt to identify Southern California''s technology industry up-and-comers, the people most likely to create the next big thing, produce the next big exit or to influence the industry in a significant way. So, who are the socalTECH 50?

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Three Southern California Firms Building Blog Empires

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Here are three, Southern California blog networks which have quietly growing their network of properties: BUZZMEDIA. BUZZMEDIA has a network of music and entertainment news related blogs, including Buzznet, Celebuzz, Absolute Punk, GoFugYourself, JustJared, Stereogum, TheSuperficial, WWTDD, SocialiteLife, and Idolator.

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I Buy Dead Magazines (the art of the intro …)

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It starts in a crowded room at a conference or networking event. I buy dead magazines.” I buy dead magazines. We think that the magazine industry is going through incredible change but that the Internet website experience doesn’t yet fulfill our magazine needs. We buy dead magazines. I buy dead magazines.”.

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I Just Invested in @Burstly, a Mobile Ad Management Company

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I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ). He knows the ad management and ad network businesses. How can they claim this?

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UCSB Tops Harvard & Wharton In Startup Wars

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According to a recent Forbes article , UC Santa Barbara''s Technology Management Program offers students a superior startup education over the University of Pennsylvania (home of Wharton), as well Harvard, Northwestern and even its acclaimed southern neighbor, the University of Southern California.

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Interview with Kanaan Jemili, uCast Global

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How is this different from a typical content delivery network (CDN)? By multiple ways, I mean free content, subscription content, and enterprise content, content that is packaged in video channels, and VOD viewing and so forth. In a lot of cases, they want to build their own system so that it will be unique. I have a Ph.D.

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