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Disney Accelerator Shows Off First Class Of Startups

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Among the announcements at the demo day were the funding of smartphone toy company SnowShoe , and an acquisition of Smart Toy , a developer of an interactive toy. in its seed funding round. disney startup accelerator walt angeles entertainment consumer funding venture capital techstars' READ MORE>>.

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Kixer's Co-Founders On Mobile Ads and Early Exits

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Kixer develops mobile advertising software which helps publishers and connects mobile web users with apps. Talk a bit about where the company was at the time of the acquisition? Omar Nicola: When we launched the company, it was no surprise that content publishers were struggling to monetize their mobile audience.

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ThinkNear Acquired By TeleNav

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Los Angeles-based ThinkNear , the developer of hyper-local mobile advertising technology headed by Eli Portnoy, has been acquired by TeleNav , TeleNav said this morning. All of ThinkNear's twelve employees are joining TeleNav's mobile local advertising group. in a seed funding last year. in a seed funding last year.

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My Chat with Dan Primack of PEHub

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In the technology world there are a few websites that most startups track to keep up with the latest financings, acquisitions, product announcements and gossip: BusinessInsider, TechCrunch, Mashable, GigaOm, etc. There is an industry changing shift going on in the internet and mobile-based IT space for sure. Minutes 11-13.

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Interview with Constance Curtis, The List

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We've taken matchmaking onto a mobile application, as a modern matchmaking company. Make sure you can find them, acquire them, and know your customer acquisition costs. Constance Curtis: We just opened up our $2M seed funding round, which just opened last week. How did you start the company? What are they reading?

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How Frost Venture Partners Is Incubating The Big Data Future

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Clearly, globally, data is coming out of the explosion of cloud, mobile, social media, and healthcare areas. We have our own small seed fund, which we trigger to fund that company and hire a team, a CEO and a CTO. Why is Big Data taking off, and why the interest in this area? It's just exploding.

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How Fair, Scott Painter's New Startup, Is Creating A New Model For Car Ownership

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Fair recently raised $16M in a seed funding round, from Javelin Venture Partners, Charles River Ventures, Foundation Capital, Sherpa Capital, Moonshots Capital, and others. We've created a business out of the gate to acknowledge the current state of technology and mobile adoption. We have to finance that acquisition every time.

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