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Interview with Sean Broihier, Fine Art America

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more--or you can go online and use Fine Art America (www.fineartamerica.com), a Santa Monica company which is doing. photographer and live here in Santa Monica, you can take an image of the Santa Monica Pier. If someone loves your image of the Santa. all of that for more than a 100,000 members.

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How Tuition.IO Is Helping To Tame Student Debt, One Employee At A Time

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Santa Monica-based Tuition.IO (tuition.io) has s created a way for companies to both help their employees tackle that mound of student debt, as well as attract better and more loyal employees. Brendon McQueen: The idea behind the platform, is that over 70 percent of college graduates today have college loans. billion dollars.

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Launchpad LA – 10 Startup Companies to Watch

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They have developed a cloud-based platform for merchants to publish to multiple distribution networks, including social, mobile and email. The DataPop team is building a platform that enables real time creation and delivery of highly engaging ads to consumers on a massive scale. We’re excited to work with them.

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

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First, I’d like to quote (paraphrase) Brad Feld speaking at Twiistup in LA in 2009, “I keep hearing people in LA talking with a chip on their shoulders about building a tech business here relative to Silicon Valley. DemandMedia has already scaled a tech team to a considerable size in Santa Monica.

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Jetpack Gives a Boost to Mobile and Rich Media Advertising

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But that’s changing with a new crop of rich media platforms disrupting the ecosystem with new mobile and non-standard rich media ad formats, one of which – Jetpack – is located right here in Santa Monica. Jetpack was founded in 2009 by digital media veterans Marc Brown, Chris Tragos and Kevin Woolery.

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Recycled Bride Wants You To Save On Your Big Day | Wed Without Tears

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The firm says nearly 20% of all brides now shop for or sell a gently used wedding dress online, compared with just 6% in 2009 and they firmly believe Recycled Bride is helping make the sales even more possible. Recycled Bride was founded in 2009 in Santa Monica, CA. What is Recycled Bride?

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

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Self-reported 60mm daily unique as of Dec 2009, games played by 250mm people a month (AppData). Founded in April/May 2010 by Diego Berdakin (Ex-Slingshot Labs) and Josh Berman (Ex-Slingshot Labs, MySpace Co-founder) in Santa Monica, CA. iAd platform was formally launches in July 2010 as part of iOS 4.