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Twiistup 6 Highlights

Both Sides of the Table

I believe that Twiistup is now a platform from which to grow and highlight what is uniquely LA. In SoCal we are also leaders in affiliate marketing (Commission Junction), Internet video (Hulu) and bringing local businesses online (ReachLocal). No doubt the platform that Francisco built will take Twiistup 7 to a whole different level.

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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

an enterprise social networking platform provider located in Los Angeles, CA. He is a former chairman of the Business Software Alliance, and currently is Chair of the LA Chapter of the Technology Council of Southern California. He has performed this role since the company’s inception after Yammer was spun-out of Geni Inc. (a

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How Kaleo Is Tackling Enterprise Knowledge Sharing

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That can be a subject matter expert, product head, a sales head, any category in the enterprise, and they can use our lightweight platform for answers. There were things like Yammer, Jive, and all that. Our seed investors were all, Southern California based investors. We raised our seed money in 2013, and we stayed local.

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Interview with Eric M. Jackson, CapLinked

socalTECH

Jackson: CapLinked is actually a collaborative platform, a social platform that connects entrepreneurs and investors. So how'd you end up here in Southern California? Jackson: I was originally from Southern California, and just took a ten year journey to the Bay Area. How do you do that?

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CapLinked Raise $1.6m Series A Round & Appoint Adam Sroka As VP Technology

Tech Zulu Event

LA based CapLinked , a cloud-based business transaction platform yesterday raised $1.6 CapLinked is changing this with our intuitive and easy-to-use platform.”. million which was raised from Thiel, David Sacks (CEO of Yammer), and Joe Lonsdale (co-founder of Palantir), 500 Startups and 7th Rig. million Raised.

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Coloft Hackfest And Your Chance At $4K In Cash! All Thanks to BetterWorks

Tech Zulu Event

This Sunday BetterWorks his hosting Coloft Hackfest in Santa Monica, CA,and what better way to spend your weekend then with an amazing group of individuals from your local Southern California Tech scene. Co-creator of Farmville and the technical platform for Zynga. Co-founder of Yammer, and Geni. Early designer of Paypal.

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

Both Sides of the Table

RedBeacon was the 3rd winner (year 1: Yammer, year 2: Mint.com) – not bad company. So the team set out to solve the “chicken or the egg” problem by onboarding > 1,000 high-quality merchants across 50 service categories while going deep in two micro-areas within LA as our test market. Nice sweep!

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