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Eight Repeat Entrepreneurs To Watch In SoCal

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OpenCandy / Darrius Thompson - Thompson and a team with roots at DivX is taking on the open source software recommendation market with OpenCandy, which helps software developers monetize their open source, and also connects advertisers with users of relevant products. which he sold to AOL. Let us know in the comments below!).

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

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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. Daryl Bernstein , RightSignature (Santa Barbara, software). Dev Bhatia , SRCH2 (Irvine, search engine software). Isaac Garcia , Central Desktop (Pasadena, software).

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

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Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with. Previously, Ian co-founded personal music sharing software provider Mediacode with Rob Lord.

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