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The Startup UCLA Accelerator Is About Entrepreneurship Not Investment Returns

SoCal Delicious

The Startup UCLA Accelerator Is About Entrepreneurship Not Investment Returns. StratoSquare – StratoSquare is the world’s simplest web-based investment analysis platform, consolidating multiple portfolios and providing insight into investment performance, risk and behavior through proprietary investment management tools.

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AirPush's Asher Delug: Bootstrapping Your Way To $100M

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Asher Delug: We have had amazing growth coming from our smart wall product, our inter-app interstitial ad product, which patent pending. We organically invested in Bangalore and India, and that''s the reason we are profitable. We called 2011 and 2012 the years of shotgun media buying. What has been driving that growth?

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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. He called me and said--this is a company you might be interested in, maybe taking a board seat, or co-investing in, or helping them get funded. Steve Jillings: We have really big stuff coming in 2012. In 2011, we had two of our patents approved.

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Why Coachella Valley Is a Hub for Renewable Energy Startups

Tech.Co

Joe: I came to the Coachella Valley in January of 2012 to serve as the Founder and Managing Director of the Palm Springs iHub. Most of the equity investments in iHub companies are coming from outside the region. Joe Wallace, CEO and Chief Innovation Officer at CVEP. What’s your role in the Coachella Valley area startup ecosystem?

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Why Coachella Valley Is a Hub for Renewable Energy Startups

Tech.Co

Joe: I came to the Coachella Valley in January of 2012 to serve as the Founder and Managing Director of the Palm Springs iHub. Most of the equity investments in iHub companies are coming from outside the region. Joe Wallace, CEO and Chief Innovation Officer at CVEP. What’s your role in the Coachella Valley area startup ecosystem?

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

” I hear it when I visit LPs (the people who invest in VCs) all across the country, “Yeah, I haven’t been out there for a few years but I keep hearing that something is going on there.” The patents Overture held became known in small circles as Google’s ’361 problem as outlined here.

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ZunguZ Facebook Payment Application | Interview With The Founder Robert Sussman

Tech Zulu Event

We built a Proof of Concept in 2010, went into closed beta in 2011 and opened up to the public in Dec 2012. Omidyar Networks – head of investment. We actually enable banks to attract new customers as well as securely port their services to existing users, using our patent pending social fraud algorithms. When was it launched?