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What You Missed On Your Holiday Vacation, SoCal Technology Edition

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Independa ($5M, San Diego, software for senior independence). It's a new year and it's time to get back to work. In the latest roundup of fundings (big few weeks for San Diego, apparently): PatientSafe Solutions ($20M, San Diego, mobile health). Solarflare ($22M, San Diego, high speed networking). How to find a startup mentor.

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Interview with Mike Macadaan, Urbandig

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I actually just got a chance to do this in Portland, and I got to test all of the content coming in from my Portland guides on Urbandig, which I thought was very empowering. There are lots of knowledgeable people that we find to write these guides--people who grew up there, and who are experts in the area. That's really empowering.

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Startup Tips From College Dropouts: Zuckerberg, Jobs, Gates, Dell, Ellison, Branson and Disney

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HIGHEST DEGREE OBTAINED BY AMERICA'S 400 RICHEST PEOPLE Source: Forbes Magazine, Jan 2012. According to a January 2012 Forbes article, nearly 16% of the 400 most affluent Americans do not have a college degree. When one considers the 400 richest people on the entire planet, the percentage of non-college graduates doubles.

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How YP Is Growing A Giant Tech Team In Glendale

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Darren Clark: It was officially May 9 of 2012, when David and I and others within YP and AT&T decided that given where we were with AT&T, their core focus on wireless, we should figure out how to take the business out of AT&T, so that we would not be constrained on our investments, and we could go after markets in a more strategic way.

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How YP.com Is Growing A Giant Tech Team In Glendale

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Yelp and Agie''s List has been fantastic in the reviews path. But, going down that review path was not where we wanted to take it, or at least, not where we wanted to start. It really gives them a way to go out and learn more about these guys, and much more than reviews. When did the split with AT&T happen? READ MORE>>.

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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

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He came to work in our offices at Upfront Ventures as an EIR and immediately began building software to improve how storage was picked up, photographed, scanned and routed to a warehouse. Sam began drawing out plans for a new way to provide storage after he had horrific experiences with traditional storage after the storm.

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

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August 24, 2012 10:24 AM. Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs was named one of Fortune’s 10 Brilliant Technology Visionaries for 2012 alongside the great and powerful Oz’s of Apple and Google. October 20, 2012 1:57 PM. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff: Windows 8 is ‘the end of Windows’ October 19, 2012 11:44 AM.