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Break.com, Yoostar In Joint Promotion

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Los Angeles-based Break Media , which operates a network of male-centric content web sites, said today that it has linked with home entertainment system company Yoostar in a promotion. According to Break,it is teaming up with Yoostar for a special, featured channel on the site focused on the "Yoostar Casting Tour" competition.

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Reflections on 2019: Kelly Perdew, Moonshots Capital

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The podcast ecosystem continues to grow and Im excited to see this content medium continue to change the way people receive information and share new ideas. Due to this, seed rounds have become more competitive, with more expensive valuations and more oversubscribed rounds. Since 2010, $6.3B

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Four SoCal Startups That Thrived Despite--or Because Of--Economic Downturns

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However, if history is any lesson, downturns actually have created some of Southern California's most successful technology companies, whether through forcing those companies to swizzle their business models, by removing competition from the market, or even spurring customers to more readily adopt their products to save money. billion. >.

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Would the Last Blackberry User Please Turn Out the Lights? I Already Left the Building

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I mostly didn’t buy it because I’m a big content producer. And by content I mean email. I didn’t get my first one – believe it or not – until 2010. Where Mark Zuckerberg always seems paranoid about competition and industry change – they seemed oblivious to it. And all the Apps.

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Interview with John Maffei, Xfire, On 17 Million Users, Plans

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In 2009/2010, I joined the team which had been building out the Titan platform, with the idea that the competitive gaming model was very attractive. The competitive/skilled gaming model is where players compete in games for points, items, and sometimes for cash. Is that something new to the market? READ MORE>>.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

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Founded in April/May 2010 by Diego Berdakin (Ex-Slingshot Labs) and Josh Berman (Ex-Slingshot Labs, MySpace Co-founder) in Santa Monica, CA. first vertical to launch by 2010 Holiday Season. Software provides intelligent, real-time data analytics across a wide variety of disparate, unstructured enterprise content types.

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How Chinese Startup Tradesparq Is Looking To Grow In SoCal

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We''ve now reached critical mass in content, and in Asia we''re number three in the amount of information on products and suppliers online. Michael Kleist: We started in 2010. In 2011, we built our site, and in 2012, last year, we started getting content. We focused almost entirely last year on content.