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Crosscut Ventures Raising Second Fund

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Crosscut Ventures invests in digital media businesses, and has invested in such companies as GraphEffect, Postcard On The Run, ShoeDazzle, Zadspace, GumGum, DocStoc, CircleStreet, Verve Wireless, among other companies. READ MORE>>.

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Ace Metrix Names Chief Revenue Officer

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Flanagan was most recently Executive Vice President at comScore, in charge of the firm's Media Metrix division. Flanagan also has served at Jupter Media metrix, and BPA international. READ MORE>>.

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Layoffs Hot Keyword for Second Half of January 2009

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Here's the rest. Top for January 16, 2009 - January 31, 2009 Posts Are You Selling Online Yet? Here’s how to do it.

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Ace Metrix Names Bunchball's Daboll As CEO

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and also was President and CEO of ComScore Media Metrix. Ace Metrix is venture backed by Leapfrog Ventures, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and Palomar Ventures. He also had served at Chief of Insights at Yahoo!, Daboll also has served at MarketTools, Advertising.com, MediaPlan, Information Resources Inc. and Nielsen. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Brian Garrett, Crosscut Ventures

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The fund--started by Brian Garrett and Rick Smith --has been focused on digital media investments, and so far has made investments in six companies. We're describing ourselves as a micro-cap venture fund, focused on digital media opportunities in the emerging ecosystem of Southern California. What do you mean by infrastructure?

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The Challenges (& Opportunities) of Starting a Tech Company in LA

Jason Nazar

In LA there has typically been a small handful of firms actively making investments in tech, they include: Rustic Canyon , GRP Parners , Clearstone Venture Partners , Redpoint Ventures , Mission Ventures , Anthem Venture Partners , Greycroft , Crosscut , Palomar Ventures , and Rincon Ventures. It’s a chicken and egg problem.

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Interview with Steve Goldman, Ace Metrix

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Ace Metrix is venture backed by Hummer Winblad, and Palomar Ventures. Luckily enough, we were able to get the attention of Hummer Winblad, and specifically, Anne Winblad, as well as Jim Gauer at Palomar Ventures. On the fly, they can make changes to their media plans, and creative rotations, and optimize their buys.