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Ten of Southern California's Top Software Companies

SoCal Delicious

used in a very wide range of both web and mobile services, from Foursquare, to Yelp, to LivingSocial. that out, by pulling together massive amounts of information from multiple sources and intelligently pricing and engaging. get to all that data, in real time--which it describes as "mind-blowingly hard data problems".

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

Both Sides of the Table

It was the first company to do “paid search&# back when Larry & Sergey were saying they would never do it. plus a large settlement on patent disputes paid from Google) so Bill did well on it. $TBD mm in Series C; $1.2 In fact, it is Overture 2.0. Because GoTo.com was his idea. Overture sold for $1.6

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

So much so that if you read Ken Auletta’s wonderful book “ Googled ” you’ll see that Larry and Sergey had for years stated they would never do paid search results. Many of the early winners sold for north of a half a billion dollars.