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Adaptive Medias Buys StartEngine's Ember

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Irvine-based online advertising firm Adaptive Medias is announcing this morning that it has acquired Ember , one of the companies incubated out of the StartEngine startup accelerator in Los Angeles. Adaptive Medias said this is the first exit of a company incubated out of StartEngine. READ MORE>>.

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Go West Young Men: Winklevoss Twins Buy $18M L.A. Mansion To Dive Into SoCal Tech Scene

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Advertise Here. Advertise Here. Software Engineer, Back End – Games.com Games.com Sr. Software Engineer, Front End Games.com Mid-Senior Full Stack / Front-End Engineer (HTML5, CSS3, JS, Ruby) John McNeil Studio Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer Universum USA Product Manager - Local Business Products Yelp.

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Interview with Anne Walls and John Singleton, WordHustler

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We caught up with both Anne and John to learn more about the company. I went to UCLA, and majored in English, and then worked in Hollywood for ten years, for companies such as CAA, Paramount, and Judd Apatow. I started my career as a technologist, as a software engineer. How's the company funded?

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CallFire Bootstraps 50,000 Signups and Hires Former NetZero CEO

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CallFire simplifies telephony, making sophisticated, expensive carrier-class telecom capabilities available through an easy-to-use GUI and API platform, which the company pioneered in 2007. Company founders, led by Ravishanker, made the strategic choice early on to bypass venture capital.

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amSTATZ Social Network For Fitness Gurus, Athletes & Events | Interview With Founder

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Working with professional athletes combined with my natural leadership ability and experience in business development makes me uniquely suited to lead a technology company in the health and fitness industry. Advertising revenue is generated from each site visitor, paid or otherwise. We have 115 paying customers right now.

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Interview: Kevin O’Connor of FindTheBest

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In the early days of your companies, what techniques do you use to separate entrepreneurs from Wantrepreneurs (those who think they want to be an entrepreneur but do not have the innate skills, drive, risk profile, etc.)? Money was less an issue then having both consumer expertise and a network of portfolio companies we could learn from.

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Interview: Kevin O’Connor of FindTheBest

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Company : FindTheBest. In the early days of your companies, what techniques do you use to separate entrepreneurs from Wantrepreneurs (those who think they want to be an entrepreneur but do not have the innate skills, drive, risk profile, etc.)? It’s easy to find the other 99 which is why we all focus on it!”.