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Eight Repeat Entrepreneurs To Watch In SoCal

socalTECH

Demand Media / Richard Rosenblatt / Los Angeles - Rosenblatt's last big win: MySpace, where he was Chairman, brokering its sale to News Corp. Getting lots of notice--and controversy--at Demand Media for its use of writers to create content specifically to attract web traffic. Less known--a healthy domain name registration business.

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Announcing The Socaltech 50: Southern California's Up-and-Comers

socalTECH

Docstoc, Ken Rutkowski of MeTAL, Mark Suster of Upfront, Jason Calacanis of Mahalo--but we had to pass them up, too, in favor of some of the new folks to the scene. Alex Kazerani and James Segil (shared), EdgeCast Networks (Los Angeles, content delivery network). John Jersin , Connectifier (Newport Beach, recruiting software).

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Los Angeles Tech Launched - Hot List

SoCal CTO

In other words, it uses what is happening: with the content out in the network with searches that land on the site, what happens when people visit the site, and various other kinds of behaviors. There are some very cool new features being released all the time as part of the software that powers this system.

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Characteristics of Successful Entrepreneurs with Jason Calacanis - Startups Uncensored #12

Jason Nazar

We are joined this month by Jason Calacanis the CEO of Mahalo , co-founder of Weblogs Inc and publisher of Sillcon Alley Reporter. These events are put on in conjunction with our friends at DealMaker Media. Jason is one of the best known internet CEOs and hosts the popular show This Week in Startups. You can follow Jason on twitter.

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

SoCal Delicious

Demand Media is an online media company operating two strategically-linked businesses: an integrated content and social media platform, and registrar solutions. MySpace is one of the world’s largest social networks, with about 125 million users. As of June 2008 Jason is now CEO and Founder of Mahalo, Inc. ,

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Twiistup 6 Highlights

Both Sides of the Table

We are a city unique in merging the world’s best content with digital media and technology expertise. We are also home to DemandMedia (Richard Rosenblatt) and Mahalo (Jason Calacanis). He obviously believes this since he has become CEO of TopSpin Media – a firm designed to do just that.

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USC Startup Weekend | Complete Breakdown

Tech Zulu Event

Network Now, Accelerating Conference Networking. On our judging panel, we had Scott Sangster (Tech Coast Angels), Tyler Crowley (Mahalo), Pamela Coker (Daggerboard), Rick Citron (Citron & Deutsch Law Firm), and Dan Dato (Up.StartLA). Time to get to know your neighbors by sharing goods. Text To Get Her. GiftMunk.co.

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