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What Mattered in 2012: Aber Whitcomb, io/LA

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We asked the same four questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next week. Aber Whitcomb is a partner at startup co-working and incubation community io/LA , CTO of SGN , and former co-founder and CTO of MySpace.

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Spend 2012 on the Right Side of the Haimish Line

Both Sides of the Table

The first day of 2012 seems the perfect day to do so. It’s why I still randomly meet up with people I’ve met on Twitter or this blog. I had so many casual meet-ups with random people that I wanted to spend quality time with, like Naval Ravikant and Farb Nivi. Office Space. So many people just “hang out.”

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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. Michael Kleist: We started in 2010. What is Tradesparq?

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LA Billions - Data Warehousing for Ambitious Young Startups

SoCal Tech Calendar

Wednesday, February 8, 2012 -- LA Billions - Data Warehousing for Ambitious Young Startups. We are extremely lucky to have a handful of thought leaders in the data warehousing space present about their platforms and also talk about the dramatic growth in the data storage space. See [link] (more)

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LawKick: A Modern Way To Find Legal Help

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But, how do you start? The old way was difficult, time consuming, and often expensive; referrals, calling up lawyers, going through initial consultations. We spoke with Michael Chasin, the company''s co-founder, about the startup. You put your project up, and shortly thereafter, you get price quotes from lawyers.

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Miigle Revisited | A SoCal Startup With a Global Mission

Tech Zulu Event

We recently sat down with Luc Berlin, co-founder of Miigle, a SoCal startup that has an aggressive global mission to bring entrepreneurs together from around the world. We first interviewed Luc in 2012, just as he was launching the prototype for Miigle. The quintessential problem that every startup has is one of visibility.

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Join Us At Variety 2012 Venture Capital & New Media Summit

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TechZulu is proud to announce that we are a sponsor of the Variety 2012 Venture Capital & New Media Summit and will be there in full force bringing you all the action. based start-up incubators, and former CEO for Myspace. Venture Capital and Start-Up Landscape. Yup That’s the one! Speaker List.