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Twiistup 6 Highlights

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We are also home to DemandMedia (Richard Rosenblatt) and Mahalo (Jason Calacanis). There are now a second generation of entrepreneurs and companies that have learned from their last successes and are producing great new companies like TopSpin Media , Sometrics and GumGum. We have accomplished much yet have much work to do.

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Master of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups …

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I recently sat down with Matt Coffin , the founder of LowerMyBills, which sold for $400 million but was very nearly a bankruptcy only a few years early, and talked “startups.&#. Matt was one of my inspirations behind Launchpad LA (yes, we’re going to have a program in 2011 – news very, very soon).

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Digest May 2-8: WINC’s Big Series B, SENSAY Passes 1 Million Users, LA CITY Site Redesigned

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Follow LA Tech Digest on Twitter ( link ) for news as it happens. **. Jason Nazar. futurizetransit panel talking the future(s) of personal, mass, and commercial transit pic.twitter.com/NsiIMIY0oS. THIS WEEK’S EVENTS: see full calendar. Monday May 9. Cornerstone Convergence (-5/11). Chris Anderson (TED). Startup Law.

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

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In July 2005 News Corporation bought MySpace parent company eUniverse for $580 M, of which approximately $327 M was the valuation of MySpace. Jason Calacanis – Mahalo Jason Calacanis was CEO and co-founder of Weblogs, Inc., As of June 2008 Jason is now CEO and Founder of Mahalo, Inc. , Mediacode was sold to Yahoo.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

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the reason the team and I are passionate about building it--is to create a new user interaction that is more useful or fun that what is available now. Of course, you should monitor social media such as Twitter, the social news sites, Facebook, etc. The main point of KlickFu--i.e., So I obsess about ways to iterate and make it better.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

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Check out Lori’s talk at IdeaMensch LA. The apps can stream video, audio, news feeds, Twitter, Facebook, sell digital content, physical merchandise, and much more. Check out Dan Gould’s talk at IdeaMensch Los Angeles. Check out Court’s talk at IdeaMensch Los Angeles, an event for entrepreneurs.