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Fans.lu Ties With Game Development Organization

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Los Angeles-based Fans.lu , a developer of an e-commerce storefront to help game companies sell merchandise such as shirts, hats, posters, and more directly to their gamer fans, said over the weekend that it has partnered with the International Game Developers Association (IGDA). READ MORE>>.

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Maestro nets $15 million for its interactive commerce, community and engagement tools for livestreams

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. “ 2020 was a blowout year… People needed an interactive streaming platform that they could spin up quickly that they could launch on their website.” Since the launch of monetization tools in May of last year, Evans estimated that the platform has paid out at least $5 million to entertainers who used the service. “We

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Why I Invested in Gogii (textPlus) – My First Ever Later Stage Deal

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Well, we started out a free text messaging platform. We just happen to have significantly more users than most of the group texting platforms you typically read about. Scott was one of the first employees at Activision and was VP of their Studio Business. Management, SVP North American Sales and SVP European Publishing.

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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. Howard Marks , Co-Founder at Activision / StartEngine.

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

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After graduating from college, Bill and his brother Larry started GNP Development, Inc., In 1985, Lotus Development Corporation acquired GNP and Bill became a software entrepreneur at Lotus Development. Prior to Idealab, Alex led sales and marketing efforts for venture-backed startups focused on enterprise software and services.

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

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Look beyond California and you have group purchasing (GroupOn in Chicago, LivingSocial in Washington DC), private sales (Gilt Groupe in NY, HauteLook in LA), artisan marketplaces (Etsy in NY), eCommerce (Amazon in Seattle) and on and on. But we do have great technology developers. Hit some bumps in the road? You just don’t.