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Interview with Andrew Humphries, UK's Tech City

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On the invitation of UK Trade and Investment, socalTECH Contributing Editor Travis Oberlander has traveled this week to London for us, to compare and contrast the efforts in the UK to establish their own technology center with our own efforts in Southern California.). What is the Tech City Investment Organization?

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Dreamhammer's Dream Of Interoperable Drones

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Manufacturers of drones can now have multiple applications that can run on those drones, not just the applications they have built. On top of that, we are making our platform available for third party application developers, similar to the way developers can create software for the iPhone or Google Android.

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Interview with Evan Rifkin, Burstly

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Mark Suster lead GRP's investment in the firm, and Jim Andelman led Rincon's investment. As of today, anyone can now sign on as a developer, and we're announcing the release of our marketplace. What kind of application developer benefits most from what you do--is there a specific type of app you work best with?

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Why Hopscotch Is Behind Your Favorite Mobile Sports App, with Laurence Sotsky

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Previous to this, I ran a custom, mobile application development shop. Why are these colleges using you, rather than investing in their own custom applications? What's the biggest lesson you've learned here so far as an entrepreneur? I was working with Madison Square Garden, the Knicks, the Rangers, and others.

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Interview with Bruce Nash, OpusData

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We built the website The Numbers, which tracks daily and weekly box office grosses and DVD sales, and we also provider consulting services--primarily to independent filmmakers, or anybody in the industry who needs to get financial data in order to support their business plan or to make investment decisions. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Jed Simon, FastPay

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Last week, Los Angeles-based FastPay (www.fastpaypartners.com) announced a round of funding and its services for providing advanced payment to online publishers, application developers, and game developers. Jed Simon: My original job out of college was as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley.

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Interview with Hamilton Chan, PaperLinks

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I ended up going to Harvard for college, and worked at JP Morgan in investment banking, and went to Harvard Law School. I ended up representing people like Kobe Bryant, MGM, and others, but I realized I wanted to be an entrepreneur and that it is in my blood. Was it difficult going from print to mobile application development?

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