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Southern California's Top 10 Most Popular Tech Stories Of The Year

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BetterWorks--headed by prolific angel investor Paige Craig--apparently was not able to sustain a large enough market, relative to its high costs of customer acquisition. The Complete Guide To Southern California Accelerators and. Incubators, Part I - In February, we put together a guide to the list of (then.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

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He had the idea that people would want city guides to tell them where to eat and what to do. IdeaLab has created 75 companies, leading to 8 IPOs, 35 or so acquisitions and more than 5 companies worth in excess of $1 billion. So he founded … wait … CitySearch. Yes, long before Yelp or any similar service.

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Business.com Acquired By Purch

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Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Purch is the publisher of such sites as Top Ten Reviews, Tom's Guide, Tom's Hardware, Live Science, and many others. domain name sold to startup incubator eCompanies, transformed into a $345M sale to R.H. Purch said the deal would help it expand into the SMB market.

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

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Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. Includes content mobile guides, ie. Foursquare. -A A location based service which incorporates social and gaming elements. Currently has 1.8mm users and adding about 15,000 users/day. Competitors: Gowalla.

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5 Key Points Of Focus For Every Scalable New Venture

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You can review all the specifics of this approach in the classic book by Nathan Furr and Paul Ahlstrom, appropriately titled “ Nail It then Scale It: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Creating and Managing Breakthrough Innovation ,” but I will net it out here. and leading incubators such as Y Combinator , are already on this one.

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Meet Launchpad LA’s Graduating Startups

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. · Milk & Honey has had shoes designed by Rachael Ray, Ginnifer Goodwin, Malin Akerman, and Kate Mara amongst others and has appeared in People, Redbook, Inked, Lucky, Bridal Guide, InStyle, Marie Claire, and numerous other publications. Less Neglect helps companies reduce churn, upsell users, and increase customer acquisition rates.

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The New Breed of Startups Master These 5 Processes

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You can review all the specifics of this approach in a recent book by Nathan Furr and Paul Ahlstrom, appropriately titled “ Nail It then Scale It: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Creating and Managing Breakthrough Innovation ,” but I will net it out here. and leading incubators such as Y Combinator , are already on this one.

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