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Interview with Mike Whitmire, CEO and Co-founder, FloQast

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For today's interview, we sat down and talked with Mike Whitmire , the CEO and Co-founder of Los Angeles-based FloQast (www.floqast.com), a developer of financial close management software for enterprise accounting. Mike tells us about the company, who uses its software, as well as how he was initially turned away from the Amplify.LA

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

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Twilio has now raised around $235 million, including a July 2015 round totaling $130 million. We typically do not ask entrepreneurs to visit our offices in Santa Barbara, but Jeff wanted to meet with Kevin, an investor in our Fund who helped us vet opportunities and occasionally invested alongside of us.

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

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com) � backed by local investors Rincon Venture Partners and Bonfire Ventures�is helping to solve that problem, with its career pathing software designed for helping employees at large enterprises figure out what's next. Anne Fulton: I've always been an organizational psychologist crossed with a serial entrepreneur. What is Fuel50?

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Interview with Brett Crosby and Brew Johnson, PeerStreet

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We sat down with Brett Crosby (who founded Urchin Software, the company which became Google Analytics) and Brew Johnson , the co-founders of the company, to learn more about the company and what it's working on. Brew Johnson: At the high level, it's a marketplace, a lending platform for real estate. in a funding round.

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Interview with David Sobie, Happy Returns

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Some of the big milestones we did, include a seed round of financing in the fall of 2015, which was led by Upfront Ventures. Today, we help enable returns in-person, but we also provide software for retailers that want to outsource their return portal. What's the biggest piece of advice you'd give to other entrepreneurs?

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6 Top Trends For The Digital World In 2016

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In 2015 an additional 237 thousand joined the online community. As online viewership and behaviors grew in 2015 – the average U.S. As online viewership and behaviors grew in 2015 – the average U.S. In 2015, issues of online security and data privacy consumed headlines. Data Security Concerns Dominate.

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How the Hell do I Prioritize Work, Blog & Find Balance?

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Tuvia Elbaum (@Tuviae) July 14, 2015. BTW – if anybody at Twitter reads this you need to fix your “embed Tweet” code because as you’ll see from above it doesn’t properly embed when you have a quoted Tweet. **. How do you have time for all your entrepreneurs? Mark Suster (@msuster) July 14, 2015.

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