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Gift Guide 2017: Star Wars Gadgets and Gear

Tech.Co

Stay tuned for the rest of our guide throughout the season. We’ll be covering holiday guides for Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality, the DIYer, cannabis, entrepreneur, STEM, and various others. Sphero’s App-Controlled BB-9E Robot, $100. Will it make you look like a nerd? Is that kinda the point? Definitely.

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Business 2011 - Optimism, But Heed the Lessons

Startup Professionals Musings

Even though it has been a long haul, it’s nice to see some optimism surfacing in 2011. Only 44% indicated they had a strategy in place during the recession, or to guide growth during the coming recovery period. Respondents cited a greater focus on operating efficiencies as the number one step to achieving growth in 2011.

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Kara Nortman Was Just Promoted to Co-Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures. Here’s What it All Means

Both Sides of the Table

Kara will now be really involved with what goes on to successfully create and run a firm but while still handling her core duties of funding great entrepreneurs. Just as Yves mentored me when I became his co-managing partner in 2011, he didn’t seek to ride off into the sunset either. Does This Mean You’re Retiring? I’m only 52!

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Interview with Tim Sae Koo, HypeMarks

socalTECH

That's the idea behind HypeMarks (www.hypemarks.com), a new startup looking to tap into your social graph to guide you to the web. We help you turn you and your friends into personal tour guides to the web, ultimately making it easier to find new and awesome sites through each other. What is HypeMarks all about? What's your background?

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How Go Trexx is Making Travel More Rewarding, with Samantha Lurey

socalTECH

But, what we are doing, is looking at how people travel and what modern tools we can provide to make the experience better, in the form of travel guides and things like that. Our first set of products started rolling out in May, and are a set of travel guides for children. I'm more of a serial entrepreneur.

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Fred Wilson and Andy Weissman Talk with Lindel Eakman about Transitioning Leadership at a VC Fund

Both Sides of the Table

Many readers know that at Upfront Ventures that’s precisely what happened at our own firm in 2011 when our founding partner and my co-Managing Partner, Yves Sisteron, asked me to lead the daily management of our firm. It’s what creates opportunities for the entrepreneurs and it’s what helps them produce great returns for the LPs.

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K5 Brings yCombinator Model Accelerator To Orange and San Diego County

Tech Zulu Event

K5Launch announced a new accelerator program that provides promising technology startups with a three-month intensive accelerator program for entrepreneurs in Southern California. Date : Nov 9, 2011 – 5:30-8:30pm. SoCal is home to some of the greatest startup success stories. Location : The Shark Club 841 Baker St.,