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Funraise Creates $600K Fund For Nonprofits

socalTECH

Los Angeles-based Funraise , the Los Angeles startup which develops customer relationship management (CRM) and other technology for nonprofits, says it has created a new, $600,000 fund to provide grants to nonprofits. Application for its first round of grants are due by July 31st. Funraise is led by CEO Justin Wheeler. READ MORE>>.

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Upfront Ventures Raised New $280 Million Fund

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The speaks to the continued confidence in the venture capital markets and as I had predicted some time ago the VC markets right now are a great place to invest – especially relative to other places to put one’s money. It goes without saying that the shortening in time also was due to performance. Foundations.

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6 Services from Telecom Infrastructure Companies in SoCal that Help Carriers Scale

Southern California Edison Blog

Gain market share by offering service to more customers in a wider area. Fewer custom builds and proprietary infrastructure will help you expand faster at a lower cost, so you can outpace competitors. Telecom infrastructure companies offer off-net and Type 2 services, equipment protection and route diversity.

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Entrepreneurs Love Celebrity Investors While VCs (Usually) Hate Them

InfoChachkie

In instances when the celebrity''s brand is aligned with the target market, such as Kim Kardashian''s promotion of ShoeDazzle, this approach works. However, such alignment is missing at most tech startups, and thus there is little causality between a celeb’s investment and their ability to drive meaningful product adoption.

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Interview with Alan Horsager, Episona

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How do you take a new, genetic test to market, and how do you bridge the gap between research and the market? Where was the technology for this developed? Alan Horsager: This was developed at the University of Utah and the University of Southern California. What is Episona? Is it repeatable, is it stable?

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

InfoChachkie

I recall being impressed with Jeff, but I was concerned that he was creating a platform, which often requires a significant amount of capital, takes an extended amount of time to establish and can be subject to margin pressure as the enabling technologies become commoditized. Tech Diligence - Consider The Source. to Jim, Kevin.

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. in Computer Science.

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