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How Chinese Startup Tradesparq Is Looking To Grow In SoCal

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Michael Kleist: We started in 2010. Michael Kleist: My business partner and I were both originally from San Diego. We''ll mostly be doing enterprise sales here, but also looking at the technology and design front, hiring better talent, taking design to a new level than maybe what we are in China. But, you can overcome it.

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Interview with Jason Howe, CEO of Awarepoint

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San Diego-based Awarepoint (www.awarepoint.com) is a developer of systems for tracking hospital assets, patients, and doctors, using RFID tags. We were over 2x up on this round, and we also had a bunch of individual investors who wanted to put in--people who had invested in our competition a few years ago. Congrats on funding.

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