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StartEngine Debuts Eight New Startups At Demo Day

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StartEngine , the startup accelerator headed by Howard Marks, is launching its newest class of startups today in a private event in Santa Monica. The eight startups are pitching their investors to startups at CrossCampus in Santa Monica this afternoon.

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Capturing The Entrepreneurial Energy At StartEngine's Demo Day

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It was standing room only at StartEngine 's Demo Day Wednesday afternoon, held at Santa Monica's Cross Campus , as the startup accelerator launched eight of its latest startups into the world, after a 90 day process of mentoring, honing their business model, and heads down development.

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How to Avoid Being Disrupted as a VC

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Invest more heavily in platform services. Move our offices to Santa Monica so we could be closer to the early-stage companies being created in LA. I created an accelerator & mentor network (Launchpad LA). Build out our junior staff including pulling through some younger professionals into the investment ranks.

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How Amavitae Wants To Help Youth Find A Career They'll Love

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Deborah Ramo: Amavitae, which means "love life" in Latin, is a mobile-first platform to help the emerging workforce find a career that they will love and have a natural aptitude for, and to help them understand what careers are growing and will be around in the future. So how does a user use the platform? What is your app all about?

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GumGum Makes Images Profitable for Publishers

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Photos that are prime real estate and have never been monetized before, until one very ambitious Silicon Beach startup, GumGum , recognized the opportunity and created the first and largest in-image advertising platform, and an entirely new market. Photos…the final frontier. Their analytics drill down the CTR and other actions.

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upStart.LA Breakdown | Accelerators and Incubators: An Entrepreneur’s Point of View

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Courtesy of upStart.LA , our very own local accelerator based out of Santa Monica, we were able to get some of these questions answered by some very real people. Joey Flores , founder of Earbits (a Y Combinator company), a music-related marketing platform with interactive radio experiences. co-founder, Dan Dato.

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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Presenting Companies at UCLA

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Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry. 7:00 – 7:45pm – check-in. Diamond Sponsor.

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