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Wednesday, November 5, 2008
He also started investing in companies like Tesla Motors, Mahalo, and Intent.com.
What would you do if you built a tremendously successful internet company and sold it?
I interviewed Ryan Scott to find out what he did after he sold Netcreations, the email list management company that he co-founded. (Curious
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Santa Monica-based Mahalo, the search and news site run by Jason Calacanis, has cut 10 percent of the firm's staff, Calacanis said in a post on his blog Wednesday. Mahalo is venture backed by Burda Digital Ventures, CBS, News Corp., Calacanis said that the moves were due to a "challenging economic environment." According to Calacanis, the firm is "fairly certain" that advertising for the next two years will be "severely depressed."
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Monday, December 15, 2008
Santa Monica-based Mahalo, the high profile startup headed by Jason Calacanis, has launched a new questions and answers site it is calling Mahalo Answers. Mahalo is a human powered search engine which uses a team of editors to cull the web for information on the most popular search topics. The new service is similar to offerings from Yahoo with its Yahoo Answers service, Los Angeles-based Sodahead , and Demand Media's Answerbag Q&A service. The new Q&A service is the mysterious "Project A" which Calacanis was drumming up beta testers for earlier this month.
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Percival was most recently at Docstoc, where he was Content Manager, and has also previously headed up social media and search engine marketing at Mahalo. Santa Monica-based Tsavo Media, the online media startup headed by former Userplane founder Michael Jones, said today that it has hired on Sean Percival as Director of Content at the firm. Percival has previously served at Trading Places International and Nova Development.
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Mark helped launch 4 startups, including SuperSig, which was a disaster and Mahalo , a rising star.
Today he’s working on his latest startup as the CTO of Mahalo. I asked Mark Jeffrey for an interview because I knew he’d be open with me about the periods in entrepreneurship when things fall apart and you feel like there’s no way out. Network by evangelizing
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008
December 11th 2008
Mark Jeffrey, Mahalo
Howdy Campers!
Digital Family Reunion is bringing all of the LA Tech/Business/Media scene together next month, for a nice holiday party at the Skirball Center! It should be a blast having so many great LA communities together, sharing their thoughts and having some great holiday fun!
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Sunday, October 19, 2008
We also have a limited number of Barcamp LA shirts this year, so early helpers will get first dibs on their shirts. :-) If you’d like to lend a hand, Please meet us at Mahalo / Causecast HQ, 902 Colorado Ave. Howdy Campers and Camperettes!
BarCamp LA is in need of a few helping hands Saturday morning before things get started to help us set up chairs and prep a few things before the festivities begin!
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Thursday, October 2, 2008
Mahalo!
That’s right, October 25th and 26th we will be at the Mahalo offices in sunny Santa Monica!
We’re pretty stoked about this venue, and glad the gracious folks at Mahalo could host us! Hey Campers!
Camp Counselor Chris here. Just wanted to bring you some exciting venue news!
After
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Thursday, September 11, 2008
The founder, Ryan Scott, was co-founder and CTO of email marketing firm NetCreations, which had an IPO in 1999; Scott is also an angel investor, and lists himself on LinkedIn as an investor in Tesla Motors, Mahalo, Dipity, and a number of other startups. Los Angeles-based Causecast, a new startup focused on promoting causes and non-profits, launched this week at the TechCrunch50 conference in San Francisco. The firm said will "harness the power of pop culture" to help social causes and non-profits.
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Saturday, December 27, 2008
Mahalo is sold for 50-70 million, a respectable exit although much lower than Jason’s original goal of a 30 gazillion dollar sale.
Time to gaze into our crystal iPhone and see what 2009 holds in store for Los Angeles.
Francisco Dao will be kicked out of at least 1 event for being too loud and or dressing inappropriately.
We get kicked
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