A few weeks ago, Rahul Sonnad --a serial entrepreneur who is best known for founding and selling thePlatform to Comcast--alternately confused and dazzled attendees at Twiistup, the Los Angeles tech conference, with a fake-stilted-Indian-immigrant and ukulele-singing-and-dancing studded pitch for his firm, Geodelic (www.geodelic.com). We caught Rahul in a more serious conversation, and spoke to him about his venture funded, location-based information startup and what it's up to, as well as got the story behind the firm's incubation at Clearstone Ventures. First, First, for folks who haven't heard of Geodelic, what do you do? Rahul

Twiistup , the technology conference and networking event, is set for Wednesday evening and Thursday. Thursday night is big for Twiistup as well, with a Casino Royale themed party at the Skirball Cultural Center. Also on Thursday, the Founder Institute , an effort by Adeo Ressi of TheFunded to help incubate and mentor startups–with local efforts headed by Ken Rutkowski , is launching at a local event at Clearstone Venture Partners. ...Tags: This week is shaping up to be one of the busiest tech-event weeks so far this year yet, making me think again that a clone would help to actually get to all of these.

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