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RapidEngage Acquired By QuestionPro

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San Diego-based RapidEngage , a developer of online survey software and tools used to collect customer feedback and to engage users, has been acquired by fellow online survey company QuestionPro. RapidEngage was one of the companies incubated at EvoNexus. RapidEngage was one of the companies incubated at EvoNexus. READ MORE>>.

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Centerfield Buys Business.com and Savings.com

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Los Angeles-based Centerfield, a marketing and customer acquisition company backed by private equity investor Platinum Equity, says it has acquired both Business.com and Savings.com. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. The acquisition of Business.com is just the latest saga in the business and domain name; the.

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TechStar Co-Founder @BFeld: Are We Experiencing A Startup Accelerator Bubble?

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In the past year, the number of startup accelerators and incubators across the US has grown faster than expansion league baseball. By mid-2011 he noted, “As seed accelerators have exploded in number world-wide, it’s become nearly impossible to keep this (Google Doc) working.” Probably not.

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Southern California's Top 10 Most Popular Tech Stories Of The Year

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Exits Down in 2011 - One of the most popular stories to be read on the site--perhaps. 2011, showing a reduced number of exits--but more IPOs--in venture backed companies. Incubators, Part I - In February, we put together a guide to the list of (then. existant) Southern California accelerators, incubators, and coworking spaces.

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LaunchpadLA Application Deadline Nears, As Class Graduates

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The group says that so far, from 2009 to 2011, it accepted 23 companies, of which 19 received funding worth a total of $80M; the accelerator said that the nine companies acquired exceeds $60M in proceeds. LaunchpadLA started initially as a mentoring group, but expanded into accelerating and investing in companies in the last few years.

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BloomNation's Goal To Empower Your Local Florist, And Improve Flower Delivery

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Those services work on volume, and the designs you can send--and which you receive--are from a limited selection, not at all personalized to the recipient, and for the florist delivering the flowers, provides slim margins and no opportunity to build a customer base. Farbod Shoraka: We started out in the summer of 2011. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Simon Anderson, DreamHost

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We''re very much a global footprint company, and we have customers from all over the world who fit that type of description. Right now, we have around 380,000 customers, with about a third of those outside the United States. I was hired back in the middle of 2011, and have now been ceo for about two and a half years.