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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

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It has proven a very successful strategy to get consumers to activate the payment on their mobile phone bill. Investors: Matrix (Dana Stadler, who was the CTO of PayPal). ShoeDazzle was already profitable and growing and had already taken capital from Polaris Ventures and Crosscut Ventures. 15mm in Series A.

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Interview with Bong Koh, LifeCrowd

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Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based LifeCrowd (www.lifecrowd.com) unveiled its service to help connect people with real life activities. The firm is initially focusing on the Los Angeles market, and connecting people with fun, interesting classes, activities, and more in the local area.

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Decoding Signal From Noise For Wall Street, With Bitvore

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I got involved with talking to CTOs at large, Fortune 500 companies, introducing them to what this system could provide, and figuring out if they have this capability. One of the folks was the CTO of an investment bank in New York, who immediately saw what we did, and said he had a problem he wanted us to approach.

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Interview with Jason Howe, CEO of Awarepoint

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San Diego-based Awarepoint (www.awarepoint.com) is a developer of systems for tracking hospital assets, patients, and doctors, using RFID tags. The difference in what we're doing, is we're an active sensor network. We are really focused on the active RFID tagging area. Congrats on funding. Explain what your products do?

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

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Shivani Siroya is the CEO and Founder of InVenture , which helps to expand small businesses around the world by providing access to growth capital and business tracking tools via the Internet and mobile technology. Matt Miller – Co-Founder and CTO of CareerBliss.com. She just spoke at TED EX in San Diego.