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StartupRoar Adds Personalized Subscriptions

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What's new now is that the site allows you to sign up and provide your Twitter and LinkedIn information. You can partially control your interests via the Subscription page as shown below: This will change over time based on your LinkedIn and twitter activity. Those aspects existed before and it does a good job of finding great content.

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How Chinese Startup Tradesparq Is Looking To Grow In SoCal

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In what is a fairly unusual move, last week, Tradesparq (www.tradesparq.com), a Chinese startup in the area of B2B trade information, said it was planning on setting up its operations here in Southern California, as part of an expansion and scaling of the company. Our CTO is mainland Chinese, but was educated here.

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Peeking Into Your Neighbor's Remodel, With Porch's Founders

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Co-founder and CEO Matt Ehrlichman and CTO and co-founder Eric Schleicher sat down to talk to us about the new startup, which is split between San Diego and Seattle. Matt sold his last startup, Thriva, to Active Network, and was part of the team that build up Active Network until its successful IPO in 2011.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

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aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. Want to know, for example, why Foursquare uses MongoDB to store check-in information? Call it facts for hire. But I don’t think so.

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Interview with Jason Howe, CEO of Awarepoint

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If you don't have room information, and have to look in four or five rooms to find an asset, you might as well be doing it the old way rather than signing into a computer. Without room information, adoption falls off. It's a great time for that, because there's lots of talent out there.

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