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How Chinese Startup Tradesparq Is Looking To Grow In SoCal

socalTECH

The crux of it is we help buyers user their network to verify suppliers, primarily in Asia and China, where we started. It''s a social network for world trade, kind of a combo between Alibaba and LinkedIn. In 2011, we built our site, and in 2012, last year, we started getting content. Michael Kleist: We started in 2010.

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Interview with Jason Howe, CEO of Awarepoint

socalTECH

The difference in what we're doing, is we're an active sensor network. In 2004, we switched over to Zigbee sensor networks, 802.15.4, We were over 2x up on this round, and we also had a bunch of individual investors who wanted to put in--people who had invested in our competition a few years ago. for a number of reasons.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. Clearly it'd be more accurate to say "sometime in Q1 2011." If network B has 20 users than it’s value is 400 (20*20).