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What You Missed On Your Holiday Vacation, SoCal Technology Edition

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Independa ($5M, San Diego, software for senior independence). It's a new year and it's time to get back to work. In the latest roundup of fundings (big few weeks for San Diego, apparently): PatientSafe Solutions ($20M, San Diego, mobile health). Solarflare ($22M, San Diego, high speed networking). How to find a startup mentor.

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9 Innovative Startups To Watch For in 2024

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Founded in 2020 by two former Meta executives, Tome is a business-focused storytelling and presentation tool that leverages generative AI. What started as a weekend project in 2012 is now a global marketplace that attracted 55.2 Tome Tome is another AI startup that's been causing a stir in 2023. million site visits in October alone.

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New York’s SeedInvest Raises $1 Million To Grow Crowdfunding Platform

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The platform allows investors to do their due diligence on their own time, network with other investors and execute deals with little overhead.” The platform carefully vets every company applicant and only presents less than 2% of opportunities to its investor base.

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Startup Weekend LA | Recap February 2012

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Teams reconvened Saturday morning at 9:00 AM and continued to code and build their startup throughout the day. Tyler has helped coach dozens of companies through pitching and presenting at Launch Conf and formerly TechCrunch 50. Pitches kicked off with 13 teams in total presenting. What a SWLA. making this their first SWLA.

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Women 2.0 Conference 2012 | For The Men Who Missed It

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Following Perfect Beauty, a vivacious financial advisor presented Prosperity ( spendonpurpose.com ), a finance management system for small business owners. Labeling it a “behavioral based software” with 2600 paid subscribers, CEO, Leanne Ozaine-Smith found her niche through her love of teaching finance one-on-one.

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Ryan Blair, HashtagOne: From Gang Member, To Entrepreneur, To Anti-VC

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Ryan Blair: As you know, I sold ViSalus back in 2012, but ended up buying it back in 2014, and then we sold the company to a public company. My CIO had been ex-CIO at Herbalife, and was an EVP of Software for Disney. We hired the ex-CTO of Sears, and other senior executives out of Disney in software. Are you kidding me?

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

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He came to work in our offices at Upfront Ventures as an EIR and immediately began building software to improve how storage was picked up, photographed, scanned and routed to a warehouse. We realized that operating a business in distributed markets presented multi-city coordination efforts that we weren’t prepared for.

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