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Southern California Venture Investments See Big Drop In Q1

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Venture capital investments saw a sharp drop in Q1 in Southern California, according to the latest venture numbers from the MoneyTree report. invested in 81 deals in the Southern California region in Q1 of 2013, down from Q4, when there was $674.2M moneytree quarterly investment capital venture california southern'

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LA Executive Plans "Virus Free" Retreat For The Well Heeled

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A Los Angeles-area startup executive has launched a plan for a "virus-free" luxury retreat from the world, called Harbor , saying this week that he plans to house 33 guests--all paying several thousand dollars a month--at an undisclosed location in Southern California, to allow people to wait out the coronavirus pandemic as a group.

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Tech Coast Angels Looks To Shorten Funding Cycle

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The Tech Coast Angels , Southern California's most active , organized angel investment group, has a goal: cut down the time it takes to fund a startup presenting to the organization.

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Bring Gaming to the Physical World | Doozy

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The University of Southern California (USC), is famous for its games program. With giant conferences like E3, showing off the coolest new video games to the world, very few innovations arrive in the game industry that’s off the screen. As you can see, the game can get very active and silly very quickly.

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Angel Investing - Demystified

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Angel networks, where high-net-worth individuals come together to screen and vet deals, are the source of much of this funding. Tech Coast Angels (TCA), based in exclusively in Southern California, is the largest angel group in the US, having invested over $100M in over 130 companies in the past 10 years.

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StartupRoar Adds Personalized Subscriptions

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The site will look at your activity on these sites and the content of what you share. You can partially control your interests via the Subscription page as shown below: This will change over time based on your LinkedIn and twitter activity. You can always visit and manually select interests as well.

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How Nils Forsblom Is Reinventing Himself In Mobile With TenFarms

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Everyone from our team is from Finland, one is from Portugal, and we come and go between California and Finland. How did you end up here in Southern California? We have a couple of different ideas in the pipeline, and have filed patents in our unique way of showing advertising on a very small screen. What happened there?

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