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TechZulu Presents 2012 Startup Forecast | Featuring Science, Tech Coast Angels, Amplify, StartEngine, upStart.LA

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A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded, advised, invested and sold numerous businesses, including application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media, Movoxx, PeopleMedia, Brizzly and Myspace. Scott Sangster , President at Tech Coast Angels (Los Angeles)/CEO at OrganicStartup.

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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. Scott Sangster, President of Tech Coast Angels (Los Angeles)/CEO at OrganicStartup.

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Bitvore Brings Latest Funding Round To $14.2M

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The company's platform is based on artificial intelligence gathering, with tools which automatically pick up important things like merger and acquisitions, financial updates, legal issues, executive turnover, and many other factors. READ MORE>>.

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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. Scott Sangster, President of Tech Coast Angels (Los Angeles)/CEO at OrganicStartup.

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How to Build a User Base

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Tech Coast Angels. a perks platform for small medium businesses. a perks platform for small medium businesses. After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150 million monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville.

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MySpace Startups: Startups From MySpace Vets

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Venture backers : Mohr Davidow Ventures, Mission Ventures, Tech Coast Angels, Ron Conway. Platform G / Mindjolt. Platform G bought Facebook gaming firm MindJolt in March, and DeWolfe is not the only MySpace vet at the firm. It's unclear if Platform G has any other acquisitions or projects up its sleeve.

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Interview with Dan Tamkin, Unified Dispatch

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Most of the board was from the Tech Coast Angels and Pasadena Angels, and while they are good people--and frankly, from their point of view--it made sense not to nurse it along in their portfolio when a company isn't going to make it. How did acquisition come about? After buying the assets, it didn't take a dime.