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StartEngine Debuts Eight New Startups At Demo Day

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StartEngine's founders are Howard Marks, who co-founded Activision, and investor Paul Kessler. The accelerator is among a number that have emerged in Los Angeles in the past year or so; StartEngine specifically has been focusing on startups targeting consumers, small to medium sized businesses, and web infrastructure. READ MORE>>.

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Decoding the Secret of iPhone Game Popularity, With William Volk, Playscreen

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It's an intensely competitive market in developing games for the iPhone and other mobile platforms, with thousands and thousands of titles competing for attention from users. William is in San Diego, and is a longtime gaming vet, having been at Activision in the days of The Manhole and Myst. How did you get into iPhone development?

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Interview with Greg Borrud, Seismic Games

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All three of us have been working together for quite awhile, since Activision, fifteen or sixteen years ago. Because we're constantly connected to the web, we can change the game, literally, daily. Lots of what people like to do, is express themselves on the web. Greg Borrud: We've always developed with cross platform in mind.

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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Winter Presenting Companies at Caltech

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Mobile Web America, Inc. Leftronic is a real-time data visualization platform for startups. Early-stage companies in the web, mobile and ecommerce space are encouraged to apply for the program which completes four cycles per year, culminating in Demo Days that are attended by the region’s top angel investors and VCs.

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Spotlight: LA Tech | One Year, Recap, and Thank You!

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Please join us in congratulating this quarter’s Spotlight companies: Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. CitySourced is a real time mobile civic engagement platform.

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Interview with Howard Marks, Gamzee

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Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based Gamzee (www.gamzee.com), a new game company founded by Howard Marks, the co-founder of Activision and Acclaim Games, announced a seed round of funding. Right now, those Facebook apps only work on the web. What is Gamzee all about? Howard Marks: We started our business in April.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Judges and SuperDemo Bill Gross of Idealab!

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Howard Marks , Co-Founder at Activision / StartEngine. A 20-year industry veteran, having co-founded juggernaut Activision as well as Acclaim Games. ProjectFresh was founded in 2002 as a platform to launch projects and companies that have a shared set of goals: To galvanize community and to promote cross-pollination.

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