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What You Missed On Your Holiday Vacation, SoCal Technology Edition

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In the latest roundup of fundings (big few weeks for San Diego, apparently): PatientSafe Solutions ($20M, San Diego, mobile health). Independa ($5M, San Diego, software for senior independence). LaunchpadLA Opens Up Spring Applications. Broadcom Powering New Mac Wireless. Surf Air Gets First Aircraft. How to find a startup mentor.

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Top Tips for Streaming Services: Cutting the Cord the Smart Way

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Secret Codes: Here’s a handy list of codes for searching various genres on Netflix. Hulu/Hulu Plus. Hulu offers current shows ASAP. Pay to Watch: If you didn’t already know, paying a few bucks more a month will get you Hulu Plus without (hardly any) commercials. Price:$8 with ads, $12 without.

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All The Questions You Wanted Answered about Bird Scooters and Their Recent $300 Million Funding

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If Bird has thousands of scooters in a neighborhood (and if it can acquire these scooters at cheaper prices due to scale advantages) then it’s significantly more difficult for new entrants to launch without serious capital and it’s hard to get serious capital from investors who perceive you’re late to the game. Brand matters.

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TZ & GR Present REACH | Disruptive Technologies Impacting the Future of Gaming

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TechZulu & Gadget Review present REACH. He joined SGN from Fox where he was Vice President of Business Development and worked on the acquisition of MySpace and the launch of Hulu. Experience gadgets from the big brands with million dollar budgets to the startups bootstrapping and raising via IndieGoGo.

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REACH | Disruptive Technologies Impacting the Future of Gaming [Live]

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TechZulu & Gadget Review present REACH. He joined SGN from Fox where he was Vice President of Business Development and worked on the acquisition of MySpace and the launch of Hulu. Tonight starting at 7:00pm PST we will be streaming and bringing you all the action live from Cross Campus in Santa Monica. Make sure to tune in!

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Startup Weekend LA | Recap February 2012

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Teams reconvened Saturday morning at 9:00 AM and continued to code and build their startup throughout the day. 2nd place went to MarkedUp that helps mobile developers collect and organize visual feedback from their beta testers and users ( markedup.mobi ). By 10:00 PM, teams were working away into the night.

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Interview with Richard Yen, Saban Ventures

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We make Series A and Series B investments in digital media, mobile, and consumer Internet. But we're also technology focused, looking primarily at consumer facing software and services firms in digital media. There's lots of examples--iTunes, which is now a dominant player, opportunities like Hulu, which didn't exist until recently.