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Batch 8 500 Startups Demo Day | Our Top Ten

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As our first time covering a 500 Startups demo day , we could only imagine the stratospheric levels of stress our Batch 8 founders must have gone through to get on stage and present their progress from their last four months of startup bootcamp. In true 500 Startups fashion, Demo Day had an almost cathartic feel. ” Demo Day.

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LA’s Chewse Joins 500 Startups | A Better Marketplace For Us To Easily Order Great Food

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500 Startups add that successful startups don’t just need great coders and designers but require scalable and cost-effective customer acquisition which they help startups at. We used AngelList’s platform to fill a few of the remaining spots in this batch – 3 weeks before the program started. 33 companies are in this batch.

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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Winter Presenting Companies at Caltech

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Leftronic is a real-time data visualization platform for startups. 8:00 – 8:35pm – 5 five-minute demos, followed by brief Q&A for each company. CitySourced is a real time mobile civic engagement platform. Rapid Fire Trivia is a game owned and operated by Danger Room Gaming. What: Spotlight Series Event. RSVP: AGENDA.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Summer Judges Includes BetterWorks, CallFire, Idealab, and Tech Coast Angeles

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a perks platform for small medium businesses. After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. 7:10 – 8:00pm – 5 five-minute demos, followed by brief Q&A for each company (approx. RSVP: AGENDA.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Judges and SuperDemo Bill Gross of Idealab!

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After its acquisition by Playdom, he was most recently head of the Acclaim studio and Sr. 8:00 – 8:35pm – 5 five-minute demos, followed by brief Q&A for each company. We leverage our network in the Los Angeles community to provide members with access to potential employees, mentors and investors. Dinesh earned his B.S.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Judges Include Mike Jones, CallFire, Idealab, Tech Coast Angels, Coloft

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A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded and sold numerous businesses, including agency PBJ Digital, application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media and Myspace. 7:10 – 8:00pm – 5 five-minute demos, followed by brief Q&A for each company. What: Spotlight Series Event.

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Story of a Startup Weekend Veteran | The Good, The Bad, and the UGLY!

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From LA Demo Day to Silicon Beach Fest to Crowdstart LA to hackathons to Startup Weekends, companies and entrepreneurs alike have joined forces to feed the startup ecosystem. I met with a lawyer, talked to an investor and a few mentors, all who are serial entrepreneurs to advise me. But a wise mentor of mine said, “Go with your gut!

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