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Disney Accelerator Demo Day: Artificial Intelligence, 3D Printing, More

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The Disney Accelerator , held its Demo Day for its second class on Thursday, showing off ten companies to a theater packed full of venture and angel investors. A number of the companies--showing off one huge advantage of being involved in a program run by Disney--announced deals with Disney properties to use their technology and products.

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Open Angel Forum San Fran – Team Calacanis Raises the Bar

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This was in large part due to the marketing efforts of Jason that created a great top end of the funnel (100+ companies applied) and the herculean efforts of Tyler Crowley who spent days going through all of the submissions and serving up 5 very interesting companies. would acknowledge – they needed to get to the demo more quickly.

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myShopanion Takes Comparison Shopping Social

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Comparison shopping is great when you are out and about looking for the best deals on a product or even looking for reviews. However, I catch myself wondering about the reviews on occasion. For all I know this could be an intern working for the product maker going around putting up great reviews for a crappy product.

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Silicon Beach Fest Celebrates Tech Startups and Hollywood in LA | Pics, Highlights and What’s Next!

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. “Let us come together and celebrate…” The mashup theme was reflected in the SBF programming, which included panels highlighting accelerators, VCs, startups, developers, movies, TV, music, web content, art, fashion, social good, surf & skate, and more. Code Monkey Hackathon song (VIDEO ABOVE). Geeks Unite.

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6 Tips for Building Relationships with Journalists

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Oh, and Demo charges the startups $18,000. Imagine if you had to release your software daily in order to keep your job or to have the traffic numbers you need to earn your paycheck. Do not equate that with them giving you glowing reviews – you have to earn that. Robert’s article is worth reading.

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

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Social media. Social networking. Social games. Backup Software. Blog Software. CRM Software. Help Desk Software. Monitoring Software. Project Management Software. More Software. Remote Desktop Software. Scheduling Software. SEO Software. Cloud services.

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How to Talk to a Journalist When You Only Have 30 Seconds

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In this article the focus will be on how to successfully attract media attention. In order to prepare for TechCrunch Disrupt 2012 I reviewed company bios via the official site and read taglines that said “cool” rather than what the company does. I first reviewed the “Alleys and Pavilions” company list provided by the TechCrunch site.

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