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Twiistup 6 Highlights

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I believe that Twiistup is now a platform from which to grow and highlight what is uniquely LA. We are also home to DemandMedia (Richard Rosenblatt) and Mahalo (Jason Calacanis). No doubt the platform that Francisco built will take Twiistup 7 to a whole different level. Much of this was highlighted at Twiistup.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. Read more: VentureWire (requires login) , Mahalo Profile Page. We also talked a lot about Stickybits (who uses the SimpleGeo platform) and Occipital who has the red-hot RedLaser scanning product. OTHER DEALS: 1.

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Raising $$ on AngelList? Working w/ McClure? Ask Jody Sherman

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It is a communication platform. If I’m not mistaken, I may have been the first person to send out an angel “personal intro&# email on AngelList through their new platform when it launched or at least I was one of the first few. There is no secret, just a lot of hard work and screening of both startups and investors.

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