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Interview with Jimmy Hendricks, Deal Current

socalTECH

They are using DealCurrent as the deal platform for all of their clients. We actually built that about a year and a half ago, and are bringing that back due to overwhelming demand. We see those three products working together, as features of one platform which both can be used independently, as well as together.

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Claiming a landmark in fusion energy, TAE Technologies sees commercialization by 2030

TechCrunch LA

Rostoker’s legacy lives on inside TAE through the company’s technology platform, called, appropriately, “Norman” In the last 18 months that technology has demonstrated consistent performance, reaching over 50 million degrees in several hundred test cycles. The new machine was first fired up in the summer of 2017.

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Interview with Wes Brodsky, SaveFans

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We are an offer-based platform that allows users to negotiate the price they buy and sell tickets for, on the secondary market. Educate us, and explain what's different about how you are handling ticket sales and how that's different from the many others out there? The company was formed in 2008. It's Priceline meets Stubhub.

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Location-based virtual reality is increasing its footprint in the U.S.

TechCrunch LA

It’s a matter of survival thanks to the persistent lack of demand from consumers. . Sales of head-mounted displays began to climb out of their doldrums late last year, and are expected to surpass 1.5 A producer with MTV Networks, the founder of the collaborative game development platform Squarepushers Inc.

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

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A social analytics platform for Facebook app developers and publishers that provides detailed demographic and engagement data. Company plans to use the capital to build out sales and marketing and r&d. Founded in 2008 in Santa Monica by Ron Goldman (former CRO of shopping.com) and Rahul Sonnad. Kontagent. -A

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The Big VC Thaw – Why The Market is Moving Again (part 2 of 3)

Both Sides of the Table

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. VC’s are working hand-in-glove with the investment bankers to prepare for IPOs or create auction-style trade sales.

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Interview with David Aronchick, Hark

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We thought we'd create a platform that was as powerful and rich as Youtube is for video, or Flickr is for pictures, or Docstoc is for documents. So, we spun up the site, and got it up and going in the middle of 2008, and it just took off, particularly right after the elections. Our job is to help capture some of that demand.

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