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AUGUST 22, 2013

The site combines the crowd-voting aspect with crowd-funding elements, as well. JumpStartFund comes out of the Girvan Institute of Technology, a Los Angeles startup incubator and accelerators for early-stage high-tech companies. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2011

A number of local, high tech companies are putting their efforts behind Movember , a charity which helps raise funding and awareness for men's health, and particularly prostate cancer. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 4, 2013

Technology veterans Tareq Risheq and Mark Thacker are no strangers to the world of high tech startups and angel and venture capital--Risheq was formerly CEO of Celllynx, Thacker was co-founder at Datallegro--but the way they're funding their newest startup is unusual, and a testament to the growing popularity of crowdfunding.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Culver City-based Bestofmedia Group, publisher of gadget and electronics blog site Tom's Guide, has acquired Computing.net, a provider of high tech information and technical support. Bestofmedia Group is backed by Index Ventures with $35M in funding; the firm's other publications also include Tom's Hardware and Tom's Games.

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MAY 24, 2011

One of them is online music events site Loudvine (www.loudvine.com), which was co-founded by Vic Caretti , who gave us the scoop on what the site is all about. I had requests from friends to put them on an email, or give them a calendar reminder when a band was playing, and one thing led to another, and I started the site.

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DECEMBER 3, 2009

Dave manages angel funds Berkus Technology Ventures, LLC and Kodiak Ventures, L.P. Dave has recently started blogging on his site at Berkonomics.com. Have your own observations on the market, the high tech industry, or startups you think we should share here? and is a partner in Trenchant Ventures, LLC. Continued).

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DECEMBER 3, 2009

Dave manages angel funds Berkus Technology Ventures, LLC and Kodiak Ventures, L.P. Dave has recently started blogging on his site at Berkonomics.com. Have your own observations on the market, the high tech industry, or startups you think we should share here? and is a partner in Trenchant Ventures, LLC. Continued).

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OCTOBER 24, 2011

Accelerator programs--like YCombinator in Silicon Valley, and TechStars in Colorado--have come to the forefront of the minds of entrepreneurs as a way to boost their ideas quickly into the market, find funding, and into existence. We're providing seed funding, office space, and put them through a three month, structured program.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

Carriers are certainly a big class of customer, and we also have content aggregators, who are aggregating games, news and information, mobile applications, and web sites. How is the company funded? Patrick Kennedy: We've had fantastic funding from a venture capital firm called Mobile Media Ventures.

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AUGUST 6, 2012

The company went from a venture backed high tech startup to an IPO as a publicly traded firm, and over its time has battled the perception of being a "content farm", suffered through Google and its Panda update, and now has emerged as a major content partner for Google, via YouTube.

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JUNE 6, 2011

Although Los Angeles has become a hub for the high tech startup world, Surprisingly, one of the things which hasn't happened in the Los Angeles area is any huge, successful venture acceleration programs. I helped them raise a few rounds of funding, ran their European operations.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Those could be mobile professionals, corporate firms, sales people, or people who normally work at client sites or home based offices. It seems like there are quite a number of high tech clients using your space? Many of those people have been stuck at home, because there were no other choices.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2009

For our readers who aren't familiar with Kadonk, what's the story behind the site? Often times, in the world of cell phones and high tech software, you don't know the challenges throughout the process of creating a product. We spoke with Dipanshu Sharma, Chairman of the firm, to learn more about the company and its products.

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