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How Chinese Startup Tradesparq Is Looking To Grow In SoCal

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Michael Kleist: My business partner and I were both originally from San Diego. We''ll mostly be doing enterprise sales here, but also looking at the technology and design front, hiring better talent, taking design to a new level than maybe what we are in China. It''s also a dog-eat-dog world over there with the competition.

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Decoding Signal From Noise For Wall Street, With Bitvore

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We''re looking for lighting bolts in time which are important. Whether that''s for competitive analysis or market analysis, our product is basically able to monitor--on a very large scale--things that are important to your particular company. I was hired to head up strategy, marketing development, and product management.

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Interview with Ramit Varma, Revolution Prep

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Some of the biggest school districts, including LA Unified, San Diego, and Oakland all use our software. It might not be problems in geometry, it might be because students can't add fractions in algebra. So, we give basic instruction and then signal teachers on where to better focus their classroom time.

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Interview with Jason Howe, CEO of Awarepoint

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San Diego-based Awarepoint (www.awarepoint.com) is a developer of systems for tracking hospital assets, patients, and doctors, using RFID tags. We were over 2x up on this round, and we also had a bunch of individual investors who wanted to put in--people who had invested in our competition a few years ago. Congrats on funding.

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