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New markets emerge for carbon accounting businesses as cities like LA push proposals

TechCrunch LA

In Los Angeles, the city council tasked the Los Angeles Bureau of Sanitation and Chief Legislative Analyst to report back on the feasibility of developing or buying technology to provide a more accurate accounting of the city’s carbon footprint.

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Bolstering the Partner Ranks at GRP

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It was perfect timing since in 2012 GRP raised its fourth fund bringing our total assets managed to nearly $1 billion. I made some reference calls. We settled on Venture Partner as is now being reported and also picked up here. Community builders. Open & transparent. Approachable. So we talked about his joining.

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China Roundup: Tencent’s new US gaming studio and WeChat’s new paywall

TechCrunch LA

The wind, he said, “refers to the ever-growing desire for quality by mobile gamers.” Ever since WeChat rolled out its content publishing function — a Facebook Page equivalent named the Official Account — back in 2012, articles posted through the social networking platform have been free to read.

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Chrome River: Building An Enterprise Software Leader In LA, with Dave Terry

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A few weeks ago, Los Angeles-based enterprise expense reporting software maker Chrome River (www.chromeriver.com) took a significant venture funding round--worth $100M--to help expand the company's growth in the enterprise software market. Dave Terry: We originally were self funded until 2012, when we took a very low investment.

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How Digsy Is Using Data, And Deals, To Drive Real Estate Sales

socalTECH

He was just trying to collect more data for his startup on what was happening on real estate deals that the company had been referring to brokers. But, what they could do, is if they provided a report on their progress, a weekly report or every other week, they would accumulate deal credit, which would enable them to get another deal.

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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

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They feel very confident they can hit $18 – 20 million in 2012. So assume that in 2012 the company would do $20 million in sales and $2 million in profits (10%) and 2013 they would do sales of $25 million and $4 million in profit (16% net margin) and then slow growth in 2014 to $30 million and $6 million in profit (20% profit).

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The Future of Couponing | How Social-Local-Mobile has Changed the Game

Tech Zulu Event

But subsequent statistics have also shown that “online coupon access [has] increased 92 percent and redemption of Internet deals [has] leapt up 360 percent;” with more growth predicted in 2012. Jones Graduate School of Business found that 66 percent of the 150 businesses surveyed reported that Groupon promotions [were] profitable.

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