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Interview with Aaron Crayford, Rippol

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Recently, San Diego-based Rippol (www.rippol.com) launched its web site, a service which uses social networking to help people find and discover interesting videos related to their interests. So is this more social networking, or is this search? Those are buddies of mine from UCSD, and the open source community.

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We’re All Frogs Boiling in Water

Both Sides of the Table

The Hidden Impact of Technology on our Everyday Lives … There’s an old (semi true) parable about frogs boiling in water. In times like these we reflect more about life in general and about the impacts technology has on our lives and on our society. But most technology impacts us in imperceptible frog-boiling like ways.

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

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MySpace is one of the world’s largest social networks, with about 125 million users. He runs the Southern California Venture Capital Alliance (VCA) and is on the board of advisors for the venture capital fund of the UCSD Rady School of Business. He blogs here and tweets here. 1B+ Revenue.

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What Most People Don’t Understand About How Startup Companies are Valued

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There is much discussion online and also in small, private groups, about why the price of technology companies – public and private – are falling. Social networking finally came of age connected the planet and leading to enormous wealth creation for Facebook employees and investors. Even Sequoia.

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