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SharesPost: Sales In Escrow, New Research

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Santa Monica-based SharesPost , which has created on online marketplace for sellers and buyers of private company stock, reported to its users late Friday that the firm now has sales of LinkedIn, Linden Lab, Tesla Motors, and SugarCRM going into escrow.

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ExpenseBay Opens Beta

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Santa Monica-based ExpenseBay has opened up a public beta release of the firm's expense report automation service, the firm is announcing this morning. The service--which is similar to Web-based personal finance tools Mint and Wesabe in its use of Web 2.0 READ MORE>>.

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Why The Growth Of The Internet Is Driving EdgeCast's Revenues

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What is it about the content delivery network market which has enabled Santa Monica-based EdgeCast to go from startup to over $100M in revenues in only a few, short years? We caught up with James Segil , the firm's President, to hear the story behind that big growth at the company. We've grown really fast.

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Interview with Greg Brogger, SharesPost

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Yesterday, Santa Monica-based SharesPost (www.sharespost.com) launched a new service of particular interest to the venture capital and high tech startup market, a new, online service which facilitates the buying and selling of private company stock. Given the advances in communications technology, and the Web 2.0

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CHNL – Social Network For All | Interview With John Wander, Co-founder & CEO

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Inspired by the vast amounts of data from videos, photos, music, websites and blogs shared by the many friends and people they follow online and seeing how much time it takes to check all the content across many platforms, friends set out to come up with a solution and CHNL was born. Silicon Beach (Santa Monica). What is CHNL?

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A Tale of Two Tech Cities – Silicon Valley vs. Los Angeles

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Is there a difference between tech startups in Silicon Valley vs. Los Angeles? I’ve spent the last year running a tech company based in Santa Monica , CA and I’ve spent countless weeks in the Bay meeting with hundreds of tech founders. Peter Pham – best networker / connector in web 2.0. Most emphatically, Yes !

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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was the “static&# web. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. was the 2-way web. So we ended up with “real-time streams&# in Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Blip.FM, etc. I remember in the mid-90’s when banner advertising started. So what do we mean by in-stream advertising?

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