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From The Valley to The Beach | Interview with Nate Redmond of Rustic Canyon

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TechZulu caught up with Nate Redmond managing partner of Rustic Canyon and he tells us what is happening in the LA Tech Scene. Established tech companies are adding offices and expanding in LA (e.g. I prefer to call this the LA Tech scene. Are companies moving down to Los Angeles away from the Silicon Valley?

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Factual Launches Geo-Coded Business Dataset

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Santa Monica-based Factual , the open data startup headed by Gil Elbaz, the inventor of Google's AdSense technology, said today that it has launched a new open set of data that the firm says provides geo-coded data for 14 million local U.S. businesses.

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REACH | Disruptive Technologies Impacting the Future of Gaming [Live]

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TechZulu & Gadget Review present REACH. A quarterly event series seeking to dive deep into what comes next in technology, and giving you the opportunity to experience it first hand with the gadgets on site. 1 st Street Partners provides strategic management services to technology, entertainment and consumer goods companies.

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What’s Really Going on in the VC Industry? What Does it Mean for Startups?

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But VC is an “illiquid asset&# so funds didn’t disappear quickly - In 2000/01 the stock market quickly adjusted punishing investors in the NASDAQ and in individual public technology stocks. I suspect both were at play in Rustic Canyon Partners that went from a $500 million fund to around a $200 million fund.

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Silicon Beach Fest Celebrates Tech Startups and Hollywood in LA | Pics, Highlights and What’s Next!

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He kicked off the fest with his opening keynote, saying LA is a unique city of mash-ups, where tech, startups and entertainment – plus creativity, cultures, and passion – mix with successful results. RT @OEInnovation #SBF why I live in #LA: intersection of #beach #tech #entrepreneur #entertainment. & Women 2.0:

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Southern California Venture Totals Drop in Q4

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Most sectors saw drops in investment during the year, with the exception of few--including a couple of sectors where Southern California has a significant presence, in Clean Technology and Media & Entertainment. billion in 277 deals. Year to year, Los Angeles actually had an increase in investments, up from $168.8M in 37 deals in 2007.

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Docstoc's Jason Nazar Talks About DocStore

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Do you think you could have offered this earlier, or was it due to the scale that you could launch this? Sixteen months later, we're the biggest tech event in Southern California which is held on a regular basis. I think one of the main reasons, is that LA has some unique challenges when it comes to a technology community.