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How Chinese Startup Tradesparq Is Looking To Grow In SoCal

socalTECH

In 2011, we built our site, and in 2012, last year, we started getting content. Michael Kleist: We''re seed funded, and have already raised money from twelve investors. It''s also a dog-eat-dog world over there with the competition. Our CTO is mainland Chinese, but was educated here. Tell us about your backers?

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This Philanthropist Is Winning Skirmishes With Poverty By Tapping Into An Inner City’s Entrepreneurial Spirit

InfoChachkie

ABC has even created an incubator-style program in which startup non-profits compete for $100,000 in seed funding. It’s an open competition that awards $100,000 and a year of management support to the most promising early stage nonprofit that is helping low-income Chicagoans to rise out of poverty.