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MARCH 31, 2011

The Open Angel Forum , the angel investment group started by Mahalo's Jason Calacanis, is looking to expand, according to the group. The group said Wednesday that it is looking to add five more chapters on top of existing chapters in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Palo Alto, Boulder, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, London and Seattle.

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OCTOBER 13, 2009

A personal campaign by Santa Monica-based Mahalo.com 's CEO, Jason Calacanis, to put pressure on for-profit angel investment firms to stop charging entrepreneurs to pitch, has ramped up, as Calacanis said Tuesday that he has been informed that Keiretsu Forum is filing a lawsuit against him.

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MAY 11, 2010

Jason Calacanis , CEO of Santa Monica-based search site Mahalo , said Tuesday afternoon that he and TechCrunch's Michael Arrington have parted ways, and will no longer be running the TechCrunch50 conference.

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DECEMBER 9, 2009

Jason Calacanis , the high profile founder of Santa Monica-based Mahalo , is one of the angel investors in a mobile social networking service, Gowalla , the company said today. Tags: jason calacanis angel investment venture capital social networking gowalla. Series B funding for the firm. Series B funding for the firm.

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JANUARY 18, 2013

Jason Calacanis , the Los Angeles angel investor, podcast host, speaker, conference organizer, and CEO of Mahalo , is one of the angel investors in employee feedback firm 15Five.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2012

The prize money for Jason Calacanis' LAUNCH Festival technology conference has hit $151,000, after early stage venture investor Venture51 agreed to invest $51,000 in the winner of the conference's "Best in Show" award. Mahalo is based in Santa Monica. The conference is being held in March in San Francisco. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Split Rock, which is based in Minneapolis, said that Coffin will work with the firm to identify promising investment opportunities, as well as to help advise its existing portfolio companies. Tags: lowermybills matt coffin venture capital investment.

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JUNE 11, 2010

Jason Calacanis , the CEO of Mahalo, host of This Week In Startups, and angel investor, is one of the angel investors in Bay Area startup Thumbtack.com. Tags: investment angel calacanis jason capital venture thumbtack. Thumbtack said today that it received $1.2M READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 18, 2010

The Open Angel Forum , the angel investment group started by Jason Calacanis , the CEO of Santa Monica-based Mahalo , is expanding into Seattle with a new event in November. Tags: open angel forum seattle investment investor jason calacanis. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

The company is reportedly also investing another $200M in its channel efforts, on top of the $100M effort it kicked off last year. New channels listed in the preview of YouTUbe's new content effort include channels developed by My Damn Channel, EQAL, Big Frame, Katalyst, Mahalo, Demand Media, Maker Studios, DECA, and many others.

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JANUARY 18, 2010

The Open Angel Forum , the new angel investment group run by Mahalo's Jason Calacanis , is expanding into Colorado with a new event, the group said Friday. The Colorado chapter is being headed up by David Cohen of TechStars , a Boulder-based incubator and Internet seed investment effort by local Colorado angels and venture investors.

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MAY 26, 2010

The Open Angel Forum , the new angel investment group started by Mahalo's Jason Calacanis, has set its eyes on Boston for a new chapter of the group. Tags: open angel forum jason calacanis investment venture capital boston.

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APRIL 18, 2010

I’m not a shareholder and I’m not even actively looking at making an investment. I was recently over at the Mahalo offices in Santa Monica and I noticed that they had a great big screen TV with Chartbeat displaying their traffic data. In fact, I’m surprised by how antiquated Google Analytics feels.

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JUNE 3, 2010

is an investment of GRP's Mark Suster, who hosts This Week in Venture Capital along with Mahalo's Jason Calacanis. The deal was announced by Sean Pervical, Director Content Socialization for MySpace, who also runs LA technology blog Lalawag; Ad.ly Suster also runs Launchpad LA.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Docstoc, Ken Rutkowski of MeTAL, Mark Suster of Upfront, Jason Calacanis of Mahalo--but we had to pass them up, too, in favor of some of the new folks to the scene. Internap , PricewaterhouseCoopers , Demand Media , Stubbs, Alderton & Markiles LLP , Oracle , Cresa Partners , UK Trade & Investment , PIXT , and many others.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Jason Calacanis founded Silicon Alley Reporter, Weblogs Inc, Mahalo, and Inside.com. But most of Jason's money has been made by angel investing. Calacanis' new book is called, "Angel: How to invest in technology startups —Timeless advice from an Angel Investor who turned $100,000 into $100,000,000." See [link].

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MARCH 6, 2011

When I described to people why I initially invested my calls went something like this, “He’s taken kicks to the face for nearly 2 years and is still standing. Oh, and of course I shoot all of my videos at the ThisWeekIn studios which are located in the Mahalo offices. Through this process he raised $2 million.

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AUGUST 3, 2009

We are also home to DemandMedia (Richard Rosenblatt) and Mahalo (Jason Calacanis). We had an excellent opening panel on early-stage investing with Dave McClure (Founders Fund – NorCal), Brad Feld (Foundry Group, Boulder) and Andy Sack (Founders Co-Op, Seattle). We have accomplished much yet have much work to do.

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MAY 19, 2010

Read more: VentureWire (requires login) , Mahalo Profile Page. Jelli - I went on record saying that I wanted to invest and that I think this company will create a big success. Current round: $11mm in Series B by Accel (lead), Khosla Ventures, Trilogy Partnership. Total raised: $16.5mm. Read more: VentureBeat. OTHER DEALS (Cont): 5.

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MARCH 22, 2011

In the bay area there are dozens of firms that are actively making investments. They’re the ones that rise to the cream of the crop and get the attention of the folks that are investing in LA, and they often have Bay Area or East Coast suitors who want to invest in their companies.

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MAY 21, 2013

This is particularly true if you have never raised investment capital before and do not have a record of exists like Calacanis. Calacanis can champion his new company, Inside.com to potential investors because he is widely known throughout the VC community and already has a string of A players who have baked his other startups such as Mahalo.

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JUNE 30, 2009

We met first through Tyler Crowley at Mahalo, and I invited Jason to speak at MOTM. We had a list of people who we thought not only had money to invest, but who could give us the smartest money and advice. I saw an opportunity to achieve not only my personal goals, but to be part of something significant. He is a friend of mine.

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