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Interview with Scott Ferreira, MySocialCloud

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One, is the discovery of awesome content, two is a place to store and publicize that awesome content, and three is being able to save your usernames and passwords to literally any site on the web, and automatically log you into those sites. Both have been great mentors ever since. That's very much what we've been doing.

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Interview Dan Dato and Bruce Brown, Upstart.LA

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Those programs--epitomized by YCombinator in the Bay Area, and TechStars in Boulder, Colorado--attract newly minted entrepreneurs with a mixture of cash and mentoring, and a program which rapidly takes ideas and turns them into viable, executing businesses. Those mentors are not just Bruce and I, although we are full time on this.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

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Alex Benzer: We're building SocialEngine in parallel, and working on a new, software-as-service version. We had to figure out what would help the other 90 percent build better and more interesting sites. That's why we built FanMix, to solve our own problem, and help our SocialEngine customers to promote their own sites.

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Putting the Pedal to the Metal at Amplify

From the Venture Trenches

Amplify Mentor Panel in full swing. Amplify’s close mentoring is by design. Like good mentors Paul, Jeff, Richard, Oded and David as well as Chris and Kris create an atmosphere in which the motivated founders can take advantage of the knowledge base to which they are exposed. Setting up for Eric Garcetti.

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Interview with Erik Rannala, MuckerLab

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To that end, last week, Los Angeles-based MuckerLab (www.muckerlab.com) announced its plans--and a big lineup of local CEO mentors--to start up a new, YCombinator- and TechStars-type program in Los Angeles, headed by former Silicon Valley venture capitalist Erik Rannala , and affiliated with the TechStars Network. READ MORE>>.

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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Winter Presenting Companies at Caltech

Tech Zulu Event

Crowd Seats is the only Group Buying/Daily Deals site for sports fans. Mobile Web America, Inc. has created a simple to use, online application for your business to create a mobile site and secure its mobile presence. And now without further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Winter Companies: Spotlight Companies.

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Empowering Music Teachers With TakeLessons' Online Marketplace

socalTECH

The idea is that products have moved to the web in a big way. We had a general thesis that, at some point in the future, services will also move to the web, in the same way that products had moved to the web. Steven Cox: We consider the teacher our customer, and that''s who the software is built for.

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