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OCTOBER 13, 2009

Tags: jason calacanis angel investment mahalo venture capital finance.

Keiretsu 140

Keiretsu Mahalo Santa Monica Venture Capital 140

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JANUARY 18, 2010

The Open Angel Forum , the new angel investment group run by Mahalo's Jason Calacanis , is expanding into Colorado with a new event, the group said Friday. The Colorado chapter is being headed up by David Cohen of TechStars , a Boulder-based incubator and Internet seed investment effort by local Colorado angels and venture investors.

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Angel Mahalo Incubator Venture Capital 140

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MAY 26, 2010

The Open Angel Forum , the new angel investment group started by Mahalo's Jason Calacanis, has set its eyes on Boston for a new chapter of the group. Tags: open angel forum jason calacanis investment venture capital boston.

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Angel Mahalo Startup Venture Capital 140

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

I was saying that I was happy it was all out in the open because I felt at least everybody could now understand the issues & opportunities from the perspectives of angels, entrepreneurs and VCs. Let’s be clear: AngelList doesn’t scare a single VC I know. But it’s not cutting VCs out. It is additive.

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging Summary 292

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JUNE 3, 2010

is an investment of GRP's Mark Suster, who hosts This Week in Venture Capital along with Mahalo's Jason Calacanis. The deal was announced by Sean Pervical, Director Content Socialization for MySpace, who also runs LA technology blog Lalawag; Ad.ly Suster also runs Launchpad LA.

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Advertising Userplane GRP Partners Mahalo 168

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OCTOBER 2, 2012

Calacanis, who lives in Santa Monica where he runs Mahalo , apparently has invested in Dyn , which operates a managed DNS and email delivery service, used by such clients as Twitter, Zappos, CNBC and Pandora. The investment came as part of a $38M, Series A fund which has been led by North Bridge, as well as Borealis Ventures.

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Invest Mahalo Santa Monica Email 145

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NOVEMBER 19, 2013

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. There are also many movers and shakers here in the industry -- Jason Nazar at.

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Southern California SoCalTech Dollar Shave Club Santa Monica 279

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MARCH 31, 2011

The Open Angel Forum , the angel investment group started by Mahalo's Jason Calacanis, is looking to expand, according to the group. The group said Wednesday that it is looking to add five more chapters on top of existing chapters in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Palo Alto, Boulder, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, London and Seattle.

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Angel Mahalo Startup Los Angeles 157

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

-The Scott Sanfilippo Interview Media Optimization Firms Are Red Hot In Southern California in 2009 Proliferate - Aggregate - Integrate Startups Uncensored #4 - “Finding and Working with Partners” SoCal VC’s absent from Forbes Midas List Top Five Best Uses of an Entrepreneur's Legal Dollars What Data Crunchers Did for Obama An Evaluation of Web Strategy (..)

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Layoffs Woodland Hills Southern California Orange County 159

Jason Nazar

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

If you’re in the internet startup space and want to learn from the masters of Marketing and Publicity you should be following folks like Michael Arrington of TechCrunch , Jason Calacanis of Mahalo , Peter Pham of BillShrink , and Philip Kaplan of Blippy and Mark Suster of GRP Venture Capital.

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Mahalo Marketing Startup San Diego 71

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

We are also home to DemandMedia (Richard Rosenblatt) and Mahalo (Jason Calacanis). In SoCal we are also leaders in affiliate marketing (Commission Junction), Internet video (Hulu) and bringing local businesses online (ReachLocal). We have accomplished much yet have much work to do.

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Twiistup SoCal Southern California Yammer 228

Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

Challenge #3 – There Needs to Be More Institutional Capital in Los Angeles. There simply are NOT enough venture capital firms in the Southern California. If there were more great companies coming out of LA then it would create more demand for high quality VC firms. It’s a chicken and egg problem.

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Company Companies Startup Twiistup 111

From the Venture Trenches

MAY 21, 2013

This is particularly true if you have never raised investment capital before and do not have a record of exists like Calacanis. Calacanis can champion his new company, Inside.com to potential investors because he is widely known throughout the VC community and already has a string of A players who have baked his other startups such as Mahalo.

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UCLA Venture Capital Startup Mahalo 45

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

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. Jason Calacanis – Mahalo Jason Calacanis was CEO and co-founder of Weblogs, Inc.,

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Guide Startup Mahalo GRP Partners 42