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Three Epic Startup Battles With SoCal Players

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Here are three, Southern California startup firms--and their competitors--who are engaged in head to head battles to dominate their industry. Whoever wins, these are some of the local firms in interesting markets--and their tough, well-backed head-to-head competition--worth watching. DocStoc vs. Scribd. DocStoc - Profile.

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United Online's Helfand Departs, Joins Auditude

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Jeremy Helfand , the President of United Online 's Media Group, has departed the Woodland Hills-based firm and ended up at a Palo Alto startup. The firm was actually spawned out of a UCLA MBA business plan competition. According to Palo Alto-based Auditude this morning, Helfand has joined the company as CEO.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Another topic we debated early in the program was “lean startup” vs. “ fat startup ” where we both took the obvious hedge and said “it depends.” But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit. Go Boulder!

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The Coming Shift in Enterprise Software

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The most common theme of being a startup in today’s world is that the computing environment and platforms change so rapidly that only the best equipped teams survive the transitions (think Facebook’s shift to mobile or Snapchat’s embrace of augmented reality). Why Invest? Companies that didn’t properly embrace mobile have largely faded.

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