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Snap's Big Winners: Spiegel, Murphy, Laskey, Benchmark, Lightspeed

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Who are the big winners after the IPO pricing of Venice, California-based Snap Inc. Of particular note is the involvement of Laskey, who made his first fortune with another, Southern California mobile app maker--Jamdat Mobile--which he took public in 2004, and later sold to EA in 2006 for $680M. on Wednesday afternoon?

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Snap's Big Winners: Spiegel, Murphy, Lasky, Benchmark, Lightspeed

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Who are the big winners after the IPO pricing of Venice, California-based Snap Inc. Of particular note is the involvement of Lasky, who made his first fortune with another, Southern California mobile app maker--Jamdat Mobile--which he took public in 2004, and later sold to EA in 2006 for $680M. on Wednesday afternoon?

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Crosscut Ventures: Tapping Into The Promise of Silicon Beach, with Brian Garrett

socalTECH

It's a great sign that a lot of those businesses are here in L, and getting snapped up at a good price. That's where we're at, and we include software-as-a-service, e-commerce, ad-tech, mobile marketplaces, and gaming as our companies. The buyers within those ecosystems and sectors are looking to find new avenues for growth and profit.

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

Both Sides of the Table

Over the past decade we’ve had high-profile exits at many companies that pioneered monetization techniques now used across the web including Commission Junction, Value Click, ShopZilla, Price Grabber, LowerMyBills and a newer breed including Invoca, Burstly, Shift, Rubicon Project, Gravity, Convertro, Retention Science and so forth.

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Coincident.TV Is “CREATE”-ing Second Screen Transmedia Producers Out Of Everyone [Beta Invites]

Tech Zulu Event

Locally, Google is getting into the content game itself creating hundreds of celebrity driven channels and setting up shop all over Venice to produce content in preparation for this new world. With the rapid trajectory of tablet devices purchased in the past few years, media and mobile companies are scrambling to create new apps for them.

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Snap Raises $3.4B in IPO, Soaring Trades Set Value Past $20B

Xconomy

billion and sent shares up more than 50 percent above the initial offering price during the first day of trading today. Snap (NYSE: SNAP ) priced its IPO shares at $17, higher than the $14 to $16 range it estimated in an SEC filing last month.

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Tech Titans Peter Thiel, Matt Jacobson, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Mich Mathews, Elon Musk Buy Homes in Los Angeles

SoCal Delicious

Prices are soaring in the beachfront communities tech types favor, and rents in these. The narrow, 3-mile strip of land that runs from Santa Monica through Venice, and is now stretching down to Playa Vista, has been dubbed "Silicon Beach" due to the heavy concentration of Internet companies and executives there. VENICE RISING.