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AppOnboard raises $15 million to let Android users try before they buy apps on Google Play

TechCrunch LA

Based in Los Angeles, AppOnboard sees itself as one of a new breed of LA startup that’s steeping itself in the local ecosystem and trying to be one of the cornerstone’s for a new technology hub in the southern California region. Company co-founder Jonathan Zweig has already had one hit as a Los Angeles-based entrepreneur.

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UCSB Tops Harvard & Wharton In Startup Wars

InfoChachkie

Want to be an entrepreneur? According to a recent Forbes article , UC Santa Barbara''s Technology Management Program offers students a superior startup education over the University of Pennsylvania (home of Wharton), as well Harvard, Northwestern and even its acclaimed southern neighbor, the University of Southern California.

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Fuel50: Helping Employees Figure Out Their Career Path, With Anne Fulton

socalTECH

That was in 2014, and that was our pivot moment. Anne Fulton: I've always been an organizational psychologist crossed with a serial entrepreneur. I can't help myself in being an entrepreneur. Some of our earliest clients were telecom and big Austrlian employers, so they became the proof point for our product.

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Interview with Bertrand Patriarca, WashOS

socalTECH

This morning's interview with an entrepreneur is with Bertrand Patriarca , the CEO of Los Angeles-based startup WashOS (www.washos.com). WashOS runs an on-demand, car washing service. with my partners in November of 2014. I used to travel a lot to Los Angeles, when I was an entrepreneur in France, and I came to the U.S.

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Interview with Jonathan Zweig, AppOnboard

socalTECH

Jonathan, who was Founding CEO and President of AdColony (which sold to Opera for $350 Million in June of 2014), also told us why he got back in the startup game, even though he could be just sitting on a beach in Bali after his prior success. Jonathan Zweig: I was the largest shareholder in our exit to Opera, when AdColony sold in 2014.

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Interview with Marcus Filipovich, Ocular Data Systems

socalTECH

Judges, juries, defense, and prosecuters are now expecting and demanding video be produced in the courtroom. Marcus Filipovich: Our other founder, Ron Waldorf, is a serial entrepreneur, primarily in the medical business. However, in 2014, it was time to restart that effort. We want to become a Southern California success story.

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Catching Up With Mike Giardello, President of Innovate Pasadena

socalTECH

Pasadena has a long history as a center of the technology and innovation world�all the way back to first American experiments with rocket launches in 1936�Southern California's first foray into the rocket business (sorry, SpaceX)--through the Internet boom with Idealab, to today. For example, Orange County with medical devices.

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