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Eventful Ties With Billboard On Concert Awards

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The companies said that nominees for the Eventful 2012 Fans' Choice Award will come ia a combination of Billboard's Boxscore chart and Eventful's fan Demands; those awards will be presented in New York in November. Eventful is headed by Jordan Glazier; the firm's site is used by consumers to find local events and concerts.

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Could Crowdsourcing Capital Kill Your Company?

Steve Reich

The JOBS Act of 2012 makes it possible to raise equity capital from small investors for the first time. The Act specifically includes a provision allowing small investors to demand their investment back if any material facts were omitted or mistated in the offer. The discussion was lively, to say the least. The other key conclusion?

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TechZulu Presents: The Annual Startup Forecast

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On Demand). Babak founded Third Wave Ventures in 1996 to help guide the growth of emerging high technology companies in Southern California, Among his endeavors, Babak was an early founder of Innovent Systems, which was acquired by Broadcom Corporation for $759M and now forms the core of Broadcom’s wireless group.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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He built & IPOd Demand Media. and are guiding LA 2.0. Around $400 billion of imports & exports pass through the LA ports each year, which set the national high-water mark in 2012. He built & sold iMall in Internet 1.0 for $565 million to Excite. He led and sold MySpace to Fox for $650 million.

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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

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Sam also had a vision as early as 2012 about how MakeSpace would be a large employer of middle-income jobs: The company would hire employees rather than just have contractors and he would lead the effort to ensure they had opportunities for growth and benefits for their families. and we were met with weak demand, slow growth and high costs.

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REACH NeXT Alumni Gets Into 500 Startups! | Batch 15 Announced

Tech Zulu Event

Fun fact: iWaboo Group was founded in 2012 as a pure retail company that owned gadget concept stores in Italy. On-Demand Lawn Care and Snow Plowing. B2B Demand Generation on Auto-Pilot – Metadata analyzes your inbound signups and automates b2b user acquisition by targeting new look-alike prospects. AngelList: [link]. Quicklegal.

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Tech Titans Peter Thiel, Matt Jacobson, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Mich Mathews, Elon Musk Buy Homes in Los Angeles

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October 5, 2012. In Santa Monica, the median price of homes jumped 16% in the first eight months of 2012 compared with 2011, after a 9% decline over the same period the year before, according to Multiple Listing Service data compiled by Paul Habibi, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. VENICE RISING. County: 0.9%.