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Traveling Geeks meet French Incubators at Paris Development Agency

Tech Zulu Event

Today the Traveling Geeks saw presentations from 11 interesting startups at French incubator, the Paris Development Agency. Zoomorama was a finalist at the Microsoft BizSpark event at South by Southwest Interactive 2009. Scan & Target - a SaaS solution for real-time text mining and analysis of User Generated Content.

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Interview with Kevin Covert, Covert & Co.

socalTECH

Our original name when we launched the firm was Digital Coast Partners, and we focused on being a consulting firm, investment bank, and incubator. When the market crash hit in 2009, the financing and M&A business dropped dramatically throughout the entire investment banking industry. Unfortunately, the IPO market did not cooperate.

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This Entrepreneur Fought America’s Toughest VCs… And Won

InfoChachkie

I still get a lot of pushback from VCs (but) I think by now people understand that we don''t change or alter or in any way, um, vary content on the site. in 2008 and 2009, we had at that point righted many of the wrongs in the venture capital industry, but that didn''t mean that entrepreneurship was all of a sudden healthy.

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Innovation and Geography

SoCal CTO

LA is a vibrant community with a rich network of angels that fund early stage companies, lots of VCs, easy access to big media, lots of innovation in media, mobile content, games, green, health care, and many, many others. eHarmongy) as an acting CTO. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

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Interview with Matthew Jenusaitis, OCTANe

socalTECH

Clearly, 2009 was not a good year, from the perspective of the technology innovation ecosystem. Launchpad is a virtual incubator and accelerator, where we put companies in and give them quantitative and qualitative feedback and mentorship. They asked me why I was interested in a nonprofit?

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The Startup Guide To SXSW Panel Picking

Tech Zulu Event

Bootstrapping development, Startup, Website content. . Jason Glaspey, PIE (Portland Incubator Experiment). In 2009 my art blog www.johntunger.com earned $188,138 in gross sales from 205,839 unique visitors. Entrepreneurism / Monetization Apps, content, mobile. . Babette Pepaj, BakeSpace.com. Easy as 1 + 2-->3.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 5.0 – I’m just going to chill out for a bit… (OK, for a month…)

Frank Addante

2009 (3) ► May (1) A Tour of the Rubicon Project Headquarters ► April (1) "Pay it Forward" Event for Students & Aspiring Ent. Incubation 3. I started an incubator/holdings company called Addante and Associates to be the umbrella company for my ideas and consulting projects. Relaxing 2.

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