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Branchout an Example of Viral Spread Opportunity for Startups

SoCal CTO

And it certainly seems to have worked with reports of: Branchout has seen explosive growth in January 2011, growing from 10K to 250K monthly users, with a total usership now in the hundreds of thousands. As an example, they walk you through getting your profile more complete. That's impressive growth! How did they do it?

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Branchout an Example of Viral Spread Opportunity for Startups

SoCal CTO

And it certainly seems to have worked with reports of: Branchout has seen explosive growth in January 2011, growing from 10K to 250K monthly users, with a total usership now in the hundreds of thousands. As an example, they walk you through getting your profile more complete. That's impressive growth! How did they do it?

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Interview with Steve Jillings, TeleSign

socalTECH

2011 was an incredibly huge year for us, and 2012 will be the same way. A real simple example, is someone comes to register for a particular web service, puts their name, and contact information into a site, and our clients asks them for a valid phone number. For example, we handle all of the main languages, including dialects.

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How b Spot Wants To Combine Casual Games With Legal Gambling

socalTECH

crackdown on illegal online gambling and online poker back in 2011. In 2011, we watched as there was a whole world of online, illegal gambling being shut down. Mellissa Riahei, our General Counsel, used to be an attorney with the Illnois Lottery, and helped take that online in 2011. Why a new startup?

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Go West Young Men: Winklevoss Twins Buy $18M L.A. Mansion To Dive Into SoCal Tech Scene

SoCal Delicious

It’s not because the statuesque pair wants to give Armie Hammer a run for his money on the silver screen. Examples: TechCrunch and. 2011 Holiday. Your guide for the best gadget gifts of 2011. The reason for the move out west? ’s booming tech scene.” Feel free to directly email us at tips@techcrunch.com.

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Interview with Kian Saneii, Independa

socalTECH

It's been fascinating to figure out how this third screen, which we call the smartphone, is going to fit into our society and world. An example is when it's too hot. That division was focused on implementing core technology for the wireless industry. We avoid it, because we don't prescribe or diagnose things.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

An obvious example that comes to mind is Roger Ehrenberg, whose fund Information Arbitrage , is looking at companies in these categories. CEO hinted to WSJ that it may go public in early 2011. Those companies are already going to be crushed by Skype’s new screen sharing capabilities. Note that these are “gross” revenue numbers.